• Source: Remensa

Remensa (Catalan: Remença) was a Catalan mode of serfdom. Those who were serfs under this mode are properly pagesos de remença (pagesos meaning "peasants"); they are often (though not quite correctly) referred to simply as remences (singular remença).
The Catalan term remença derives from the Latin redementia and emphasizes the possibility of redemption from servitude.
The severity of this way of life led to rebellions by the remensa peasants in 1462 and 1485 known as the War of the Remences. After the second revolt, King Ferdinand II of Aragon issued the Sentencia de Guadalupe (1486), outlawing the more severe abuses of the oppressive evil customs and allowing remensa peasants to be redeemed by a payment of 60 sous per household, leaving a rural society that was still feudal in character, but significantly reformed.




See also


History of Catalonia
Principality of Catalonia
Catalan Civil War
Spain in the Middle Ages




References






External links


"La qüestió remença" (in Catalan)

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Biara Santa María de Guadalupe
• Remensa
• War of the Remences
• Sassia remensa
• Ephemera (mayfly)
• Old Catalonia
• Francesc de Verntallat
• Sentencia Arbitral de Guadalupe
• Monastery of Saint Mary of Guadalupe
• Hugh Roger III of Pallars Sobirà
• Catalan Civil War