MURCIA-ORIHUELA RELATIONSHIPS IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE 14TH CENTURY (1304-1355)

The Sentence of Torrellas (1304) definitely broke the geographic and geopolitical unity that the lands emplaced along the course of the Segura had maintained, whose final section, the so called "Vega Baja", became part of the Kingdom of Aragon and very little after the Governance of Orihuela, located on the southern flank of the Kingdom of Valencia and bordering with the Castilian lands of the Kingdom of Murcia, formed by those territories that previously belonged to the adelantamiento of Murcia. Since then several phases of tension in the relations between the inhabitants from both sides of the imprecisely traced frontier on application of the sentence happened, which also affect the ecclesiastical plane due to the anachronism that the Governance of Orihuela belonged to the Bishopric of Cartagena, a Castilian see, entailed.