Carroz, Lord of Rebollet and conqueror of the Navy, was commissioned by James I to repopulate the lands newly incorporated.
Today it is known that the repopulation process was a failure, especially during the early years. We must wait for them to finish revolts Al Azraq, Muslim leader who harassed the whole region, so that the arrival of Christian settlers begins.
PACT OF THE JOVADA (or "POUET").
"At the beginning of April 1244, the King of Aragon launched, therefore, to try with AI-Azdraq a compromise that would facilitate the reconquest of Denia and where possible avoid bloodshed.
To do this, using the good friendship between the Infante don Alfonso with the prestigious Arráez, he sent him away to a large peace embassy, composed of the same real firstborn and distinguished gentlemen don P. Maza, don Guillermo Hugo, Don Pedro Gyerren Sanz, don Raymundo of Montpeller and military don Gonbaldo.
15 day the commission arrived at the castle of Beni-Zelim, where Al-Azdraq came to meet her, tributándole the entertainment that the nobility of good friend and son of King Conquistador deserved.
From Beni-Zelim together they moved to Alcala de la Jovada, whose baronial castle commissioners stayed Infante and obsequious performance both from the bondage of Sheikh as the inhabitants of the valley ofrendó.
Don Alfonso explanó the wishes of his father aimed at avoiding war, and proposed the stipulation Al-Azdraq and signing of a friendly compromise between both parties.
The next morning, 16 April 1244, the feast of Santa Engracia of Zaragoza, in the beautiful scenery of Saltes, apud puteulum, next to the hole dug under leafy pines, between peppermint and flowering rosemary, the bases were implemented, he drafted the document Castilian and Arabic, and it was testified by the accompanying knights Infante and wardens of Wilayah, being sealed at a time with don Alfonso and the Habu Abdala Ibn Hudayl.
With this transcendent "Pact of Jovada" law ended one of the most important eras in the history of La Marina Alta, officially concluded for the Arab domination and it was beginning a new and well appointed time. 108
In the Covenant, Al-Azdraq vassal of the Infante don Alfonso is recognized and gives the eight castles over their domains, with all minor respective strengths, farmsteads, terms, pastures and how much belongs to them.
Pop and Tárbena delivers them immediately and without conditions.
About Alcala and Perpuxent, being family heirlooms, remain on private property begs for him, for their children and for their subsequent offspring, to whom has the will.
As for the remaining -Margarida, Queirola, Castells and Gallinera- calls still enjoy over the next three years, but receiving only half of the income; the other half wants to enter immediately into possession of the King. And after three years, the stranglehold of four such castles and all of their respective outputs are added forever to the Crown of Aragon.
Al-Azdraq also agrees to help the Monarch in the reconquest of the southern lands in the direction of Alicante and Murcia, since the rent of all castles in the three years to fall, is half for the King and half for him.
Don Alfonso, meanwhile, is home to Al-Azdraq "for my beloved et much alto et very onrrado et my faithful vassallo" receives the castles of Pop and Tárbena, grants the de Alcalá and Perpuxent as requested him "to you et all your lineage, to give, sell, enpenar et per fer delos all your will, "and gives three-year income from farmsteads of Ebo and Tollos, vowing that while Al-Azdraq is his vassal as agreed, he will not fail as stipulated.
Thus, Al-Azdraq assured peace of his dominion, and the Conqueror could take up the fight against Denia following the reconquest of coastline with fewer enemies, fearing the strengths and the mountains of Pop and Gallinera, and new facilities for their hosts.
Pop in the castle called his jailer, without losing time, Pedro de Altafulla, and other strong subdued, other Castilians you trust. 109
108 The "jovada." or "stud farm" was a land measure equivalent 20.800 feet cuadrados.Se supposed to a yoke of oxen could plow in a single day. The puteulum against which the Pact was signed Jovada is what is now called the ponet, from where the water in the Plaza de Alcalá. It is about four hundred paces south of the town, towards the middle of the slope of Saltes.
109 I include the full text of the Jovada Pact in the documentary Appendix, no. 1 It is preserved written in Arabic and Spanish. Of the castle of Tárbena - which is said of Tarbana in the Covenant - there are still ruins. There is also that of Margarida, which is said MaTgarita; that of Queirola -which is said to be Churolas- located in the term and west of Alcalá, near Benihaya; that of Castells -which is said to be Castiel-, and that of Gallinera -which is said to be Galin.era- also called to the present of Benirrama or Boronat, located west of the Alcalá valley, immediately to the town of this name. Borbuchent Castle is that of the Perpuchent or Perpuxent Valley. The Arabs don't have p and they supplement it with the b, "
From the Book: "Alcalalí" Joaquin Mestre Palacio 1.970
The lack of Muslim remains in the site of the current Xàbia, seems to indicate its Christian origin, as the place where the newcomers were concentrated, while the Muslims kept their habitat dispersed throughout the valley.
The first document referred to Javea is dated 1258, according to which, the nephew of Carroz, buys six wages of land in the valley of Javea, but from the fourteenth century when it really begins to look like a particular place population: in 1301 king Jaume II ordered that the inhabitants of Dénia be moved to albacar castle (walled) while prohibits Javea continue the tower they were building, in order to concentrate all forces in Dénia.
Javea appears as a farm, included in the term of Dénia, which is administratively and judicially.
In 1.304 six North African ships raze and burn the valley is this fact that
Jaime II changed his mind about the fortification of Javea, as was the need to maintain a defensive bulwark in the term. In 1306 still they had not completed work and finally, in 1308, the king ordered urged the inhabitants of the farm for they finished the work quickly under the threat of being taken to Dénia.
Jávea development soon made its people wanted a municipal autonomy, and in March 1.321, requested and managed the king have their own subjusticia, although dependent on Denia.
Little time was left to Xàbia-Jávea be a place of realengo. In 1.323 the infant Pere de Ribagorça returned to his father, the king, the town of Crevillente, receiving Denia and Javea.
From these moments a process begins in which Pere de Ribagorça will gradually become lord of the entire Navy, which ends on Christmas Day of 1.355 in which King Pere "the Ceremonies" creates the county of Dénia , for his cousin Alfons d'Aragó, son of Pere.
Lawsuits powers between Denia and Javea were continuous.
Traditionally, 1.396 has been considered as the year in which Xàbia achieved its municipal term. The truth is that in 1.403 it has its own Consell and a total of 204 were forced to pay the "morabatí".
Count II died in Denia, their assets passed to Joan of Navarre, brother and successor of King Alfons the Magnanimous, the new lord, either by gift or sale, dismembered the former county. Dénia and Xàbia-Jávea passed into the hands of Rojas de Sandoval in 1.432, family maintained its dominance, despite attempts to rejoin the real domain in both places, until the end of the feudal regime.
