Catalan Republic (1640–1641)
Catalan Republic | |||||||||
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| 1640–1641 | |||||||||
Location of the Catalan Republic. The territory temporary occupied by Spanish armies isn't depicted | |||||||||
| Status | Independent republic under French protection | ||||||||
| Capital | Barcelona | ||||||||
| Common languages | |||||||||
| Religion | Roman Catholicism | ||||||||
| Demonym(s) | Catalan | ||||||||
| Government | Parliamentary republic | ||||||||
| President of the Generalitat | |||||||||
• 1640-1641 | Pau Claris | ||||||||
• 1641 | Josep Soler | ||||||||
• 1641 | Bernat de Cardona | ||||||||
| Legislature | Junta de Braços | ||||||||
| Historical era | Thirty Years' War | ||||||||
• Junta de Braços summoned | 10 September 1640 | ||||||||
• Republic established | 17 January 1641 | ||||||||
• Louis XIII of France appointed Count of Barcelona | 23 January 1641 | ||||||||
• Louis XIII swears the Catalan constitutions | 30 December 1641 | ||||||||
| Currency | Croat and others | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Andorra France Spain ∟ Catalonia | ||||||||
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The Catalan Republic (Catalan: República Catalana, IPA: [rəˈpubːlikə kətəˈlanə]) was a short-lived independent state under French protection established in 1641 by the Junta de Braços (assembly of Estates) of the Principality of Catalonia led by the President of the Generalitat, Pau Claris, during the Reapers' War (1640–1652).
As the conflict with the Spanish Monarchy escalated, the Junta de Braços of Catalonia, headed by the President of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Pau Claris, assumed the sovereignty and the effective rule of the Principality after September 1640 and ultimately, while the royal armies approached to Barcelona, accepted the establishment of the Catalan Republic on 17 January 1641. On 23 January 1641, due to the desperate military situation and French pressure, the Junta de Braços proclaimed Louis XIII of France as Count of Barcelona, putting the Principality of Catalonia under personal union with the Kingdom of France after December 1641. Louis XIII was succeeded upon his death in 1643 by Louis XIV, who remained Count of Barcelona until 1652, when Catalonia was reincorporated into the Spanish Monarchy.