Principality of Catalonia
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The Principality of Catalonia was a medieval and early modern state in the northeastern Iberian Peninsula. For most of its existence it was in personal union with the Kingdom of Aragon and other state
Wilfred the Hairy, depicted in the Genealogy of the Kings of Aragon, c. 1400
Queen Petronilla of Aragon and Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona, dynastic union of the Crown of Aragon. 16th-century painting by Filippo Ariosto
James I the Conqueror
1702 compilation of Catalan Constitutions
Catalan Courts
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The Catalan Courts or General Court of Catalonia were the parliamentary body of the Principality of Catalonia from the 13th to the 18th century. The Catalan Courts were the result of the territorial a
Ferdinand II of Aragon on his throne flanked by two shields showing the royal arms. Frontis of a 1495 edition of the Catalan Constitutions.
James I presiding over the early Catalan Courts of 1228, discussing the conquest of Mallorca. Mural painting from the Palau Berenguer d'Aguilar (Barcelona), c. 1285
15th-century seal bearing the legend s(igillum) Cortium et Parlamentorum Generalium Principatus Cathalonie ("seal of the Courts and the Parliament of the Principality of Catalonia")