RAMON MUNTANER

'Ramon Muntaner' (born in Perelada, c. 1270; died in Ibiza, 1336) was a Catalan soldier and writer who wrote the ''Crónica'', a chronicle of his life, including his adventures as a soldier in the Catalan Company. The Catalan Company was an army of light infantry under the leadership of Roger de Flor athat was made up by Aragonese and Catalan mercenaries (known as Almogavars); Roger led the Company to Constantinople to help the Greeks against the Turks. Ramon Muntaner's ''Crónica'' is one of the four ''Catalan Grand Chronicles'' through which the historian views thirteenth- and fourteenth century military and political matters in the Kingdom of Aragon and Catalonia.^[1]

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1. The other three sources are the autobiography of Jaime I of Aragon, the chronicles of Bernard Desclot and the royal chronicle of Pedro IV of Aragon.

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★ ''The Chronicle of Ramon Muntaner'', translated into English by Lady Goodenough http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/muntaner_goodenough.pdf

★ Crònica de Ramon Muntaner at the institut Lluís Vives, (in Catalan)

★ Crònica de Ramon Muntaner at the University of Berkeley parts, (in Catalan)