Editing Ramon Muntaner

{{Short description|Catalan writer and soldier (1265–1336)}}
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[[Image:Crònica de Ramon Muntaner.jpg|thumb|Manuscript of the Crònica by Ramon Muntaner.]]
'''Ramon Muntaner''' ({{IPA|ca|rəˈmom muntəˈne}}) (1265 &ndash; 1336) was a [[Catalan people|Catalan]] mercenary and writer who wrote the ''[[Chronicle of Muntaner|Crònica]]'', a chronicle of his life, including his adventures as a commander in the [[Catalan Company]]. He was born at [[Peralada]].

== Biography ==
The Catalan Company was an army of [[light infantry]] under the leadership of [[Roger de Flor]] that was made up of Aragonese and Catalan mercenaries, known as [[Almogavars]]; Roger led the Company to [[Constantinople]] to help the Greeks against the Turks.

For a lapse of time (1308-1315) he was governor of  [[Djerba]] after its conquest by the [[Crown of Aragon]].<ref name="Gerli2013">{{cite book|author=E. Michael Gerli|title=Medieval Iberia: An Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QlpKAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA593|date=4 December 2013|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-136-77161-3|pages=593–}}</ref>

Ramon Muntaner's ''Crònica'' is one of the four ''[[The Four Great Catalan Chronicles|Catalan Grand Chronicles]]'' through which the historian views thirteenth- and fourteenth century military and political matters in the [[Crown of Aragon]] and the [[Principality of Catalonia]].<ref>The other three sources are the autobiography of [[James I of Aragon]], the chronicles of [[Bernard Desclot]] and the royal chronicle of [[Peter IV of Aragon]].</ref>

He died at [[Ibiza]] in 1336.

==Notes==
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==References==
* [http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/muntaner_goodenough.pdf ''The Chronicle of Ramon Muntaner'', translated into English by Lady Goodenough] (pdf file)
*[http://www.lluisvives.com/servlet/SirveObras/jlv/91348064098793506388868/index.htm Crònica de Ramon Muntaner at the institut Lluís Vives], (in Catalan)
*{{webarchive |url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20011126145659/http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/~catalan/assignments/week7_assignment.html |title=Crònica de Ramon Muntaner at the University of Berkeley, selections, (in Catalan) |date=2001-11-26}}

==External links==
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*{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Muntaner, Ramon}}
*[https://openiberiaamerica.hcommons.org/ Selections in Catalan, English and Spanish of Muntaner's ''Crònica'' (pedagogical edition) with introduction, notes, and bibliography in ''Open Iberia/América'' (open access teaching anthology)]

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[[Category:1265 births]]
[[Category:1336 deaths]]
[[Category:People from Alt Empordà]]

[[Category:Medieval Catalan writers]]
[[Category:Soldiers from Catalonia]]
[[Category:Catalan Company]]
[[Category:13th-century Catalan people]]
[[Category:13th-century writers]]
[[Category:14th-century Catalan people]]


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