James I of Aragon dies at Valencia
1276
The Conqueror who had taken Mallorca and Valencia from Muslim rulers and sired a vast brood of legitimate and illegitimate sons died at seventy-eight in the city he had made his own. His kingdom was divided among heirs, sowing the conflict that would become the War of the Vespers. His autobiography, the Llibre dels Fets, is one of the few medieval royal memoirs written in the vernacular.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.
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