Ramon Muntaner

 ( 1265 Births ) 

Ramon Muntaner () (1265 – 1336) was a Catalan people mercenary and writer who wrote the Crònica, a chronicle of his life, including his adventures as a commander in the Catalan Company. He was born at Peralada.

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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.

Ramon Muntaner's Crònica is one of the four 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.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.

He died at Ibiza in 1336.

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Notes

• The Chronicle of Ramon Muntaner, translated into English by Lady Goodenough (pdf file)
• Crònica de Ramon Muntaner at the institut Lluís Vives, (in Catalan)

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External links

• 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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