Description

The Furs de València was a set of laws to rule the Kingdom of Valencia, on the eastern side of the Iberian Peninsula. The Furs was promulgated in 1261 by the founder of the kingdom, James I, king of Aragon (1208‒76), in a meeting of the Corts (Courts of the Kingdom of Valencia) held that same year. The text is in Catalan. These laws were revised in 1271 and were eventually abolished in 1707 by the Nueva Planta decree, following the victory of Philip, duke of Anjou, in the ...