The feudal partitions of Mallorca and their immediate consequences (1230-1245)

The feudal conquest of Mallorca was a technically complex and economically costly undertaking. It was the outcome of joint actions
among the monarchy, the nobility and the Catalan bourgeoisie and knights and infantrymen from Aragon and other regions in the
western Mediterranean. Once the island had been conquered, the participants received a part of the spoils and properties directly proportional
to their contribution to the forces, which resulted in three territorial partitions. Almost all the major participants divided the
lands they had received in allodium between knights and peasants in fief and in emphyteusis, respectively. The Catalans were predominant
among of the first settlers of Mallorca.