This study exposes mainly the significance adquired by the city of Sangüesa as royal court and a center of political activity, during the years from 1494 until 1512, reigning in Navarre Juan III of Albret and Catalina I of Foix. In Addition, they are also recorded the documented stayings of the viceroys of de pyrinees kingdoms in the mentioned city, between 1483 and 1493, that indicates its importance among the Navarra’s viceroy territorial sites in that time.

This study presents the reform of the Royal Council of Navarre, which took place during the reign of Catherine of Foix and John of Albret. The different measures carried out established the foundation of a new modernized and efficient Royal Council. Its organization, composition and rules and regulations, represented a change with respect to the models which had characterized this Council in medieval times. Keywords: Navarre; Institutional History; Royal Council; Legislative powers, Government and justice; Late Medieval Age; Early Modern period. En este estudio hemos presentado la reforma del Consejo Real de Navarra realizada bajo el reinado de Catalina de Foix y Juan de Albret. Las diversas medidas que se llevaron a cabo lograron establecer las bases de un «moderno», tecnificado y eficaz Consejo Real, cuya organización, composición, normativas y atribuciones supusieron un cambio respecto a los modelos que habían caracterizado a dicho organismo en la época medieval. Palabras clave: ...

El objetivo de este trabajo es dar a conocer la transcripción de una copia inédita del testamento de la reina Blanca de Navarra. Se trata de la primera copia en el tiempo de un documento relevante para la historia del reino de Navarra, pues ha servido para justificar la actitud de Juan II de continuar en el trono tras la muerte de su esposa en 1441, un trono que le correspondía legalmente a su hijo, Carlos de Aragón, príncipe de Viana.