Galceran de Requesens y Santa Coloma

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Galceran de Requesens y Santa Coloma, a Catalan nobleman, was an enemy of the Barcelona city council, and was Governor of Mallorca. He was a son of Luis de Requesens y Relat, baron of Altafulla and La Nou de Gaià, both rural lands located in the Spanish province of Tarragona.

He moved to the island of Minorca around 1439, because of disputes with the oligarchs of Catalonia since 1435, under King Alfonso V of Aragon.

In December 1439 the king invested him as a baron of Molins de Rei and the Barcelona area known as Santa Creu de Olorda. He opposed the oligarchs with a pressure group of merchants and artisans known as La Busca. Forbidden to meet in the town of Barcelona, the Busca met outside the town, in Sabadell, Terrassa, Vilafranca del Penedès and Montcada.

Acting as a royal agent, Lieutenant General of Catalonia, in November 1453 he suppressed the Barcelona Council. He had to go to clear these disputes and actions with King Alfonso V of Aragon, mainly residing near Naples, Italy since 1423, his estranged Spanish wife being till then a sort of royal representative of her husband king Alfonso, or governor of Catalonia, together with Alfonso's troublesome and restless brother, John, former prince consort of Navarre, later King John II of Aragon and the father of the later King Ferdinand II of Aragon and of the Navarrese inheritor of the kingdom, Prince Charles of Viana. In 1456 Alfonso V of Aragon, a.k.a. Alfonso I of Naples, awarded him feudal rights to the Italian towns of Trivento and Avellino.

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