Luis de Requesens y Relat

Who is Luis de Requesens y Relat?

Luis de Requesens y de Relat, deceased 1426, Catalan baron of Altafulla, baron of La Nou de Gaià, both in the province of Tarragona, Spain, son of baron Luis de Requesens y Montoliu, deceased after 1382. His mother, from the "de Relat" Catalan family, should be probably related to Bishop for the Christian communities living at Morocco, North Africa, Francesc de Relat, deceased in Morocco in 1327, sent in 1309 there by the king James II of Aragon, a.k.a. king James I of Sicily, to negotiate the freedom of 44 Catalan warriors, and confirmed by Avignon Roman Catholic Pope Clement V, a.k.a. Raymond Bertrand de Got . This Bishop seems to have played also a role in the permission to notorious Majorcan alchemist and philosopher, Raymond Lull, to preach Christianity in Tunisia, 1314 - 1316, based on the previous good terms settled up there, including trade, by exiled Castilian Prince Henry of Castile, "The Senator", the cadet brother of king Alfonso X of Castile, who had fought there with another cadet brother, Fadrique of Castile, at the service of Hafsid king of the Algeria - Tunisia- Libya region Muhammad I al-Mustansir,.