FUEROS OF ARAGON     

Before of half-full of century XIII, the normative dispersion was habitual in the Kingdom. Each city, villa or place, exhibited with pride its own fueros, privileges and customs.

The leasehold maze included/understood:

• local fueros (Zaragoza, Huesca, Ejea, etc...);
• territorial, like the Law of Jaca; of the Aragonese extremadura (Calatayud, Daroca, Teruel...);
• or even fueros of class, like the one of infanzones of Sobrarbe/Barbastro.

The changes experienced throughout century XIII forced to undertake the legal unification. This way, in Huesca, with the inestimable work of his bishop Vidal de Canellas, man of a solid legal formation, comes itself in 1247, at the request of Jaime I, " to compile, to order, to add, to clarify and to complete " the existing fueros until then. From calls " FUEROS OF ARAGON " arose there, of territorial application in all the Kingdom.

However, determined the fueros premises, like the one of Teruel, they followed effective throughout all the Average Age.

Representation of the Aragonese monarch in the " Greater Vidal ".