La extraordinaria historia del rey Jaime I el Conquistador

Some of his contemporaries called him James the Fortunate, a title that portrays the prodigality with which Providence bestowed upon him, but history, which ends up recording both human exploits and miseries, has preferred to remember him with the name of James the Conqueror. Both names reveal the personality of an extraordinary man. Despite the multiple adversities that marked his life, in decisive moments Jaime was always a character favored by fortune. Poets, minstrels and troubadours celebrated his military conquests and his love affairs, which were many and very notable. The stories that have come down to us agree on the essential points: Jaime was a man loved by his subjects, envied by nobles and knights and feared by his enemies; but everyone, without exception, respected him. He was also a human being of enormous contrasts, as the great characters of history usually are. His Templar character, forged in austerity, clashed with the passion that he put into each of the undertakings he undertook. For the rest, his pride and his belligerence never clouded his high sense of justice, his extreme honesty and his proverbial benevolence. The wind of the passing years has not been able to erase his traces. The footprints of a man whose career reality and legend intersect.