I've translated already many things. I'll end up with what has been so far sent to me today
County of Barcelona belongs de jure to the kingdom of France, in 1066. Even if the Count Borell declared himself independant from his liege, Hugues Capet, latter has no brought the promised aid against the Muslims. These lands belongs de jure to the Kingdom of France to Corbeil treaty under the reign of Louis IX. Catalan monasteries chronics, for example, continues to date by years of reign of the king of France. This is useful because this allowed to the Count of Barcelona to protect himself against the claims of the other kings in the peninsula, saying "but i've already a king" ! Of course, when the count of Barcelona seized the crown of Aragon, his intention changed. In this mod, if the king of Aragon directs the Principate, he can link it de jure to his kingdom. But be careful, because the king of France can enforce his rights on his historic counties (county of Roussillon), which belongs to Septimania/Marquis of Gothie.
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Technically, Rousillon was part of the gothic Septimania and it was later captured by the arabs during their (almost) unknown invasion of Southern France. It was taken back during the foundation (and conquest) of the "Marca hispanica" by Charlemagne.First: I like your ideas a lot, very good context and nice historical mechanics. I like the direction.
Now, my complain about the passage I quoted:
Corbeil was a sharade, it was something added into the treaty so that James the Conqueror didn't look like a fool for renouncing to all his Occitan inheritance. "Well, at least now we're really independent now!", which was bollocks. I've never heard any count of Barcelona defending himself of Spanish attacks by saying "I already have a king". Half the time the Count was treated as another king, a sovereign lord, in the Spanish political landscape, and when Alfonso crowned himself Emperor of Hispania, Ramon Berenguer bowed and swore loyalty to him. France was apparently ok with it.
Roussillon was not "part of France" or of Septimania either. It was linked to Barcelona by blood and the Count of Roussillon had always been a vassal of the Marquis of Gothia. It was only in the XIth Century with the Feudal Revolution (which is not a myth in the case of Catalonia) that the Catalan Counts claimed the Count of Barcelona was not their prince but just another one. The title Marquis of Gothia was scrapped and forgotten.
But France never (never) made any intent of recovering their de jure lost lands (which then had become independent thanks to de jure drift, in CK terms). Well, not really never; the only time they claimed it was their land was after the signing of Corbeil! After having accepted that Catalonia was not part of France, they used this very excuse to proclaim their intention of crusade against Peter the Great in the late XIIIth Century.
Disclaimer: I'm just stating what's evident in XI and XIIth Centuries' documents.
By the way, it was Regnum Aragonum. Yes, it's bad latin, but hey, I didn't write all those letters or signed all those edicts. The kings of Aragon signed "Iacobus, Rex Aragonum", for example.
Technically, Rousillon was part of the gothic Septimania and it was later captured by the arabs during their (almost) unknown invasion of Southern France. It was taken back during the foundation (and conquest) of the "Marca hispanica" by Charlemagne. And yes, they wanted it several times during the middle ages
and keep in mind that the county of Barcelona was a somewhat independent vassal of France, but a vassal, until the famous marriage.