Kingdom of Majorca

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Kingdom of Majorca Regne de Mallorca (Catalan) Reino de Mallorca (Spanish) Regnum Maioricae (Latin) Royaume de Majorque (French)
1229–1715
Flag Coat of arms
The Kingdom of Majorca in the 13th and 14th centuries
Capital	Palma and Perpignan
Common languages	Catalan
Religion	Roman Catholicism (official)[1] Islam Judaism
Government	Aragonese led-Royal Constitutional Monarchy
History
• Established	1229
• Nueva Planta decrees	1715
Preceded by Succeeded by Almohad Caliphate Taifa of Majorca Kingdom of Spain
Today part of	Spain France

The Kingdom of Majorca (Catalan: Regne de Mallorca, IPA: [ˈreŋnə ðə məˈʎɔɾkə]; Spanish: Reino de Mallorca; Latin: Regnum Maioricae; French: Royaume de Majorque) was a realm on the east coast of Spain, which included certain Mediterranean Islands, and which was founded by James I of Aragon, also known as James the Conqueror after his Conquest of Majorca from the Muslim Almohad Caliphate.

In a will written in 1262 after the death of his firstborn son Alfonso, he ceded the kingdom to his third son James. The disposition was maintained during successive versions of his will and so when James the Conqueror died in 1276, the Crown of Aragon passed to his eldest surviving son Peter, known as Peter III of Aragon or Peter the Great. The Kingdom of Majorca passed to James, who reigned under the name of James II of Majorca.

After 1279, Peter III of Aragon established that the King of Majorca was a vassal to the King of Aragon, but this caused tensions between the two Kingdoms in the following decades. Finally, in 1344 the Kingdom of Majorca was invaded by King Peter IV of Aragon and brought under the Crown of Aragon, remaining a constituent Kingdom, but with the same King, until its dissolution in 1715 by one of the Nueva Planta decrees.