The great preponderance of Barcelona in the Corts of the principality, which did not have a very good relationship with other cities and bodies, can be deduced from a protest presented to the 1410 parliament by Jaime Granel, procurator of Tortosa. Initially the soldier complained that the royal family has convened Corts in the city, and he did so again with more energy on October 2 1410, alleging that the city of Barcelona was the least appropriate place to celebrate Corts or parliaments, because it had always shown itself a tenacious enemy of the magnates, nobles and barons of Catalonia; that if it continually tried to damage them, that it would try all the more in the absence of a king or lord; adding that there were grounds for anticipating the great and intolerable pre-eminence, authority and superiority which the Barcelona councillors, as procurators representing the city, allotted themselves in the parliaments of Catalonia.
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