Pau Claris

Pau Claris i Casademunt (1586–1641) was a Catalan lawyer and churchman from Barcelona who became the 94th president of the Deputation of the General of Catalonia. A doctor of civil and canon law, he was made a canon of Urgell in 1612 and represented the church arm at the Catalan parliament of 1626, where resistance gathered against Philip IV's taxes.

Elected ecclesiastical deputy in July 1638, he led Catalonia through the Reapers' Revolt and, on 16 January 1641, proclaimed the Catalan Republic under French protection. He died in Barcelona the following month, on 27 February 1641.