Treaty of Tudilén

The Treaty of Tudején, Tudilén or Tudillén was signed on January 27, 1151 by Alfonso VII, king of Castile and León, and Ramón Berenguer IV, count of Barcelona and prince of Aragón, in Tudején, a place located near Aguas Caldas in Navarra, that is, in Baños de Fitero, since at that time Fitero was a term of the border town of Tudején.

Content

In the same treaty it is indicated that King García Ramírez of Pamplona has died ("que omnia rex die illo quo mortus est"). Since this occurred on November 21, 1150, the Treaty of Tudejdén must have been signed in 1151, probably on January 27.

The fact of García's death and his succession by his son Sancho VI undoubtedly led to the Treaty, since Sancho was seventeen years old, which, in principle, could imply a certain weakness of the old Kingdom. It should be noted that for the authority of the Church in Rome Sancho was still Dux Pamplonensis, which corresponded to the one who ruled a territory by agreement of its inhabitants without permission or acceptance of the Church. Later, his son Sancho VII would officially achieve that papal recognition. But neither Alfonso VII nor Ramón Berenguer IV in this Treaty nor in the previous one of Carrión denied the title of rex to García, which shows a certain recognition to García by the Leonese Empire and the later called Crown of Aragon.

It was a precedent for other treaties such as that of Lérida in 1157, that of Cazola in 1179 and Almizra in 1244, by which the limits of expansion in the Levant region of the two great peninsular kingdoms were set.

Distribution of the kingdom of Navarra

In this pact, the signatories agreed to declare war on the Kingdom of Navarra and divide it among them, ratifying the Treaty of Carrión of 1140, in addition to awarding Aragon the conquest of the towns and territories located south of the Júcar and the right to annex the kingdom of Murcia, except for the castles of Lorca and Vera.

It will also give a basis and passage, as had already happened in Carrión in 1140, to two other later treaties (of Cazola in 1179 and in Calatayud 1198) where once again the kings of Castile and Aragon agree to divide the kingdom of Navarra.