Editing James I of Aragon (section)

==Reconquest==
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[[File:Jaume I, Cantigas de Santa Maria, s.XIII.jpg|thumb|The [[Moors]] request permission from James I, taken from ''The Cantigas de Santa María'']]

After his false start at uniting Aragon with the [[Kingdom of Navarre]] through a scheme of mutual adoption, James turned to the south and the [[Balearic Islands]] in the [[Mediterranean Sea]]. On 5 September 1229, the troops from Aragon, consisting of 155 ships, 1,500 horsemen and 15,000 soldiers, set sail from Tarragona, Salou, and Cambrils, in southern Catalonia,<ref name="Herradón">{{Cite book |last= Herradón |first= Oscar|title= Jaime I el Conquistador, el rey cruzado (James I the Conqueror, king of the crusades) |series= Historia de Iberia Vieja: revista de historia de España (History of Ancient Iberia: review of the history of Spain) |number= 39|issn= 1699-7913|year= 2008 |page=15}}</ref> to conquer Majorca from  [[Abu Yahya Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Abi Imran al-Tinmalali|Abu Yahya]], the semi-independent Almohad governor of the island. Although a group of Aragonese knights took part in the campaign because of their obligations to the king, the [[conquest of Majorca]] was mainly a Catalan undertaking, and Catalans would later make up the majority of Majorca's settlers. James conquered [[Majorca]] on 31 December 1229, and [[Menorca]] (1232) and [[Ibiza]] (1235) were later acquired during the reconquest.

[[Conquest of Valencia (1238)|Valencia capitulated]] to Aragonese rule on 28 September 1238,{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} following an extensive campaign that included the [[Siege of Burriana]] and the decisive [[Battle of the Puig]],{{sfn|Burns|1973|p=35}} where the Aragonese commander, [[Bernat Guillem de Montpeller|Bernat Guillem I d'Entença]], who was also the king's cousin, died from wounds received in action.
Chroniclers say James used [[gunpowder]] in the siege of [[Museros]] castle.

During his remaining two decades after Corbeil, James warred with the [[Moors]] in [[Murcia]], on behalf of his son-in-law [[Alfonso X of Castile]]. On 26 March 1244, the two monarchs signed the [[Treaty of Almizra]] to establish their zones of expansion into [[Andalusia]] so as to prevent squabbling between them. Specifically, it defined the borders of the newly created [[Kingdom of Valencia]]. James signed it on that date, but Alfonso did not affirm it until much later. According to the treaty, all lands south of a line from [[Biar]] to [[Villajoyosa]] through [[Busot]] were reserved for Castile.