page_title: Arrigo della Rocca
section_title: Feudal reaction
hierarchical_section_title: Arrigo della Rocca / Feudal reaction
caption_attribution_description: Català: Imatge del rei Martí I l'Humà al Llibre de privilegis de la Cartoixa de Valldecrist.
context_page_description: Arrigo Della Rocca was a nobleman who dominated the political life of Corsica during the second half of the 14th century. Partisan of an aristocratic regime, he was supported by the Crown of Aragon and opposed by the plebeians and the Republic of Genoa.
context_section_description: Arrigo recognized the sovereignty of the Aragonese king over the island but, in 1376, he had to face a first Genoese attempt to re-take Corsica. Finally, in 1378, an uneasy peace was signed between the king and the Republic. But the same year, the Genoese created the moana di Corsica, an association of creditors to the state who had been offered the fiscal revenues of the islands in exchange of funds to re-conquer it.
  The maonesi were initially successful and Arrigo was compelled to retreat into the south of the island. Using diplomacy, the Genoese then offered him to integrate the maona as a shareholder and he accepted. In the south of the island, he established a new administration based on the feudal system and backed by the great Cinarchesi families. Aware of the danger posed by this independent power at their doorstep, the moanesi launched a military operation against the South in 1379 but they were routed and forced back into their northern strongholds.
  For a dozen years, Arrigo kept the maonesis at bay and supported the Aragonese imperial ambition as far as Palermo. In exchange, he was offered a number of revenues in Sargengna by the king. But in 1392, the Republic of Genoa dissolved the maona and funded directly a new invasion of Corsica. Arrigo and his son Anton-Lorenzo were forced to flee to Aragon.
caption: Martin I of Aragon who visited Corsica in the winter of 1397.
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