Qualla: Battle of Llucmajor https://qualla.com/battle-of-llucmajor en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:39:03 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/4/0/battle-of-llucmajor-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Llucmajor https://qualla.com/battle-of-llucmajor Battle of Llucmajor: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-llucmajor/ Photo credit Ypsilon from Finland, CC0. A king with nothing left to lose is a dangerous thing. By the autumn of 1349, James III of Majorca had lost almost everything — his islands, his mainland counties, his standing among the crowned heads of Europe. Only the Lordship of Montpellier remained, and he sold even that to the French crown to raise an army. With the proceeds, and a dowry from his second marriage, he gathered 3,000 foot soldiers and 400 horsemen and sailed for the island he still called his own. On the plain outside Llucmajor, in the flat farmland of southern Mallorca, he would make his final stand — and there he would die.

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/4/0/battle-of-llucmajor-wp/sp40-battle-of-llucmajor-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Llucmajor: A Quarrel Among Kinsmen https://qualla.com/battle-of-llucmajor/ Photo credit Antoni Salvà, CC BY-SA 3.0. The two men who fought over Mallorca were bound by blood and marriage. James III of Majorca and Peter IV of Aragon were cousins and brothers-in-law, which made their feud a family affair as much as a political one. At its heart lay a single word: vassalage. Peter IV insisted that...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/4/0/battle-of-llucmajor-wp/sp40-battle-of-llucmajor-a-quarrel-among-kinsmen.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Llucmajor: The First Fall https://qualla.com/battle-of-llucmajor/ Photo credit Antoni Salvà, CC BY-SA 3.0. Sentence pronounced, Peter IV moved to enforce it. In 1343 his fleet crossed to Mallorca, and at Santa Ponsa his troops broke the forces of James III; the islands submitted almost at once. James fled north to his County of Roussillon, but there was no refuge there for long. Over ...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/4/0/battle-of-llucmajor-wp/sp40-battle-of-llucmajor-the-first-fall.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Llucmajor: One Last Gamble https://qualla.com/battle-of-llucmajor/ Photo credit Antoni Salvà, CC BY-SA 3.0. James III refused to accept the loss as final. For years he pressed his case, but the mediation of the Pope and Philip VI of France came to nothing, and two armed incursions — into Cerdanya in 1344 and Conflent in 1347 — failed to redraw the map. So he staked everything on a sing...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/4/0/battle-of-llucmajor-wp/sp40-battle-of-llucmajor-one-last-gamble.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Llucmajor: A Morning on the Plain https://qualla.com/battle-of-llucmajor/ Photo credit Antoni Salvà, CC BY-SA 3.0. Waiting for him was Gilabert de Centelles, governor for the Crown of Catalonia-Aragon, stiffened by reinforcements ferried from Sardinia by Riambau de Corbera. The two forces met near Llucmajor. The fighting lasted the whole of one morning, and when it ended the Majorcan army had...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/4/0/battle-of-llucmajor-wp/sp40-battle-of-llucmajor-a-morning-on-the-plain.mp3 0:06 5 full Battle of Llucmajor: The End of a Kingdom https://qualla.com/battle-of-llucmajor/ Photo credit Antoni Salvà, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Battle of Llucmajor did more than end a life; it ended a country. With James III dead and James IV a captive, the independent Kingdom of Majorca ceased to exist, folded permanently into the Crown of Aragon. The islands would keep their own institutions and identity for centur...

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