THE EMERGENCE OF ARAGON-CATALONIAin Majorca.^28 The result was that James never really managed
to impose his authority over all Valencia; as late as the 1270s
he had to send his son Peter to recover royal authority in
the region. Nor did James take the title 'king of Valencia'
quite as readily as he did that of Majorca; his original con-
ception may thus have been of a Muslim tributary state, still
ruled by his client Abu Zayd, only the northern edges of
which were to be incorporated in the kingdom of Aragon.
In 1236 James began to call himself 'king of Valencia', and
in 1239 he moved away from prevailing Aragonese customs
by issuing a territorial lawcode or Furs for Valencia which
closely reflected Catalan usage.
Valencia was not, to the same degree as Majorca, another
New Catalonia. In the north, there were significant pockets
of Christian settlement, such as the lands of Blasco d'Alag6
around Morella, or the city of Burriana, and there were
extensive grants of lands to those masters of frontier man-
agement, the Military Orders. The Muslim population was
largely undisturbed, and the inhabitants of Chivert seem to
have enjoyed similar privileges to those granted earlier to
the Minorcans. The small territory of Crevillent on the edge
of the Castilian sphere of influence managed to survive until
the start of the fourteenth century as a neutralised enclave
often friendly to Aragon.^29 The Muslims of the Ux6 valley
were granted a charter in 1250 assuring them that they could
retain their marriage customs, instruct their children in the
Koran, travel freely, appoint their own judges, even prevent
Christians from taking up residence among them; the price
of this very favourable privilege was a tax of one-eighth.^30
The major area where regranting of lands by a ripartiment or
- Fundamental are the many studies by R.I. Burns of the conquest of
Valencia, among which may be singled out: The Crusader Kingdom of
Valencia. Reconstruction on a thirteenth-century frontier, 2 vols (Cambridge,
MA, 1967); Islam under the Crusaders. Colonial survival in the thirteenth-
century Kingdom of Valencia (Princeton, NJ, 1974); Medieval Colonialism.
Postcrusade exploitation of Islamic Valencia (Princeton, NJ, 1975); Mus-
lims, Christians and jews in the Crusader Kingdom of Valencia. Societies in
symbiosis (Cambridge, 1984). - P. Guichard, 'Un seigneur musulman dans l'Espagne chretienne:
le ra'is de Crevillente (1243-1318), Melanges de la Casa de Velazquez, 9
(1973), pp. 283-334; L.P. Harvey, Islamic Spain, 1250 to 1500 (Chi-
cago, 1991), pp. 42-4. - Guichard, Les musulmans, vo!. 2, pp. 264-5.