Girona

In the game's centuries Girona gave its name to the heirs of Aragon. Peter IV raised the county to a duchy for his eldest son in 1351, and in 1416 Ferdinand I made the title Prince of Girona, borne from then on by the heir to the throne. In June 1462 the heir himself was trapped here. As the Generalitat, the standing body of the Catalan parliament, turned against John II, Queen Joana Enríquez took refuge in Girona with the ten-year-old heir, the future Ferdinand the Catholic, and the Generalitat's troops besieged them for seven weeks in the Força Vella, the old fortified upper town, until the siege was lifted in late July. The Call fared worse than the heir. Its people had been shut in a tower and pressed to convert in 1391, and the community that had once given Catalonia its great rabbis came to an end with the expulsion of 1492.