Chapter 5. Death and Legend
In his book, Antoni Furió highlights the link between Jaume I and the monastery of Poblet. As early as1232, in his first will, he ordered that he be buried there and, just before he died in Valencia, on 27 July, 1276, he donned the habit, having abdicated to his son Pere el Gran. Nevertheless, the king’s body was not moved there until two years later, once the new king had put down a Muslim revolt. There he rested in peace for more than 500 years, until the upheavals of the 19th century. What happened next is explained by Father Tomàs Tulla, former prior at Poblet. Then, Stefano Cingolani deals with the legend and concludes he was a god king.