Marquet, Ramon, great sea captain, 65, 77, 85; victory in Rosas Bay, 86, 87, 89 Marseilles, fleets equipped at, 65, 85 Marti, Jayme, 182 Martin, Pope, his curses against Aragon, 65. _See_ Papal Aggression. Martin, King of Aragon, 155; founded the Cartuja at Valdemosa, 161, 162 Matagrifone, 81, 129; Count of Andria recognised as Baron of, 129; Jayme III., Lord of, 141 Mataplana, Hugo de, 13; slain, 20 Matthews, Captain H.M.S. _Kent_, 259 Maud, Empress, contemporary with Petronilla, 5 Maza, Pedro, 42; went to reduce Minorca, 43 Mediona, Guillem de, rebuked by King Jayme I. for coming out of action, 18 Melazzo, 258 Mercadal in Minorca, 240, 263 Mercy, Count, Austrian general, to drive the Spaniards out of Sicily, 258-260 Messina, defeat of Charles of Anjou at, 60, 61, 63; Pedro III. at: speech to the Sicilians, 64; rejoicings at Lauria’s victories, 66; Queen Constance at, 79, 81; relieved by Roger de Flor, 102; heiress of the Morea married to Prince Fernando of Majorca at, 129; Sir George Byng off, 256; siege, 260 Metellus and Romans occupied Minorca, 227 Michael, son of the Emperor Andronicus: his hatred of the Company, 104; his murder of Roger de Flor, 105 _Milford_, H.M.S., Captain Philip Stanhope, 245 Minorca, 8; subdued, 43, 44; dimensions, 219; surface and vegetation, 220; plants, 220; stalactitic cave, 221; prehistoric remains, 221-224; Phœnicians and Carthaginians, 225; under the Romans, 227, and Moors, 228, 229; conquest by Alfonso III. of Aragon, 230-234; chronicler, 235; Moors expelled, 236; government under Aragon, 237; attacked by pirates, 237-240; British troops land, under Stanhope, 247; under British rule, 253, 263; magistracy, 267, 268; judiciary, 268; prosperity under British rule, 269; value as a naval base, 258; works on botany of, 270 (_n_); peasantry, 267; restored to England, 279; re-taken by the French, 280; recovered by England, 284; ceded to Spain, 288; subsequent condition, 289, 290 Mint at Palma, tax for support of, 110 Miramar, Lulio’s college at, 115; King Sancho at, 139; Archduke Luis-Salvator, 215, 216 Moanquels on Aragonese frontier, 74 Moix, Antonio and Perote, attack on the cave of Arta, 36 Mola, Cape, 289 Moncada, En Guillem de, Viscount of Bearne, 12; in the leading ship of the fleet to invade Majorca, 13, 14; rebuked the King’s foolhardiness, 17; killed in battle, 20; interment, 21 Moncada, Ramon de, 12, 14, 16; slain, 20; his son: coat of arms granted, 36; Gaston de, grant of Soller to, 41; one of the great Majorca feudatories, 45 Moncada, supporter of Federigo of Sicily, 100; a viceroy of Majorca 190 Monjuich taken by Peterborough, 243 Monroy, 167 Monserrat, Marquis of, married Isabel of Majorca, 154