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Pere Joan Sala (died 1485) was the leader of the radical remensas in the Second War of the Remences, which began with the uprising of
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in 1484. Joan Sala was the lieutenant of
Francesc de Verntallat Francesc de Verntallat (Sant Privat d'en Bas, 1426 or 1428 - Sant Feliu de Pallerols, 1498 or 1499) was a Catalan nobleman who captained the Remensa Army in the War of the Remences, a conflict overshadowed by the Catalan Civil War. For this reas ...
, but unlike the latter, Joan Sala was a radical revolutionary who wasn't interested in any treaty with royalty. The Second War of the Remences was motivated by attempted legal action against the assets of the peasants who refused to pay the manorial fees. Additionally, there was an alignment of interests and support between the remensas during the first War of the Remences and King
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in the
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. They were aligned both in time (1462-1472) and in their adversary: the
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and the
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. However, at the end of the Catalan civil war, the king pretty much forgot about the remensas. The tried to curb the revolt without success, and the conflict spread throughout the Principality of Catalonia. In 1485 in Montornès del Vallès, at the head of 400 peasants, Joan Sala defeated the army of the ' commanded by the . Later, Joan Sala took the villa of
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, from where the revolt spread through Valles,
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and the Baix Llobregat. When the threat to
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became clear, the authorities reacted and defeated them in
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(Llerona) in March 1485. They then took them prisoner and had them executed. This remensa rebellion succeeded in getting the monarchy, headed by Ferdinand II of Aragon son of John II, involved with the cause of the remensas and after much negotiation Ferdinand announced, on April 21, 1486, the ''
Sentencia Arbitral de Guadalupe The ''Sentencia Arbitral de Guadalupe'' (Arbitral Decision of Guadalupe) was a legal decree delivered by King Ferdinand II of Aragon at the Monastery of Santa María de Guadalupe in Extremadura, Spain on 21 April 1486 to free the Catalan reme ...
''. This decree forgave the rank-and-file insurrectionists but had severe consequences for the leaders of the revolt.


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Pere Joan Sala
at llemena.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Joan Sala, Pere Military history of Catalonia Peasant revolts Popular revolt in late-medieval Europe Medieval Spain Year of birth unknown 1485 deaths