However, the main concerns of the new king will be the affirmation of royal power and dynastic continuity (Lapeña, ). Such continuity was intended to be ensured in a document issued in Barbastro on August , , according to which the newborn daughter of the monk-king was handed over to the Count of Barcelona [] in a legal act that has generated rivers of ink among historians and jurists. , all of them determined to determine its exact nature and effects. From the perspective of Political Law, the structure created has a clear interpretation: a personal union of states [] : a state composed of juxtaposition and mere adjacent sum of domains and lordships (Lalinde, ). Now, deciphering the legal business hidden under the lines drawn, domini regis precepto , by Pontius, county notary, leads to greater complexities. Prima facies , the unilaterality of a document that responds to the sole expression of the will of King Ramiro and does not contain any signature other than his, does not allow it to be attributed the status of pact, agreement, marriage chapter or treaty between international agents , this character which could be predicated of its immediate antecedent, the letter of deposit granted by Alfonso I the Battler in favor of Urraca de León (), to which the queen corresponded with the donation of her father's domains.
Since ancient times, the thesis has been generally defended that these “capitulations” implement an integral donation of the kingdom and the extinction of the Ramirense dynasty in the Bellónida (García-Gallo, ). However, any donation, if it is pure and non-modal, entails the immediate and complete transmission of ownership and ownership, which
B2B Email List pass from the hands of the donor to the assets of the donee, who acquires full powers over the thing, including disposition and alienation. Such features are not given here, nor does the document meet the formal characteristics typical of Navarro-Aragonese donation letters of the time (Lema, ). Therefore, Ramiro, after the " dono tibi , Raimundo" , explains that only, once the queen dies without common progeny, Ramón will freely and immutably dispose of the kingdom, if Ramiro himself dies first. [] This clause demonstrates to the contrary that, without both deaths, Ramón cannot dispose at will . So much so that, in a document without verified data or location [] , the Barcelonan is obliged, under a formula of vassalage, not to alienate any part of the kingdom that is delimited.
In later acts, Ramiro reiterates that the kingdom was granted to the count and his children who were from the progeny of Petronila [] and not from another. The same line is shown in Petronila's will in labor (), by which, during the life of her husband, she transmits the kingdom per se to the unborn child [] , or in the last and definitive one (). . [] Years later, Ubieto () formulated, with great popularity in the Aragonese historiographical field, the thesis of marriage at home . By this customary institution, someone outside a traditional Aragonese house [] without a capable heir, joins it by marriage and contributes his or her workforce and administrative capacity, regulating the marital economic regime and future succession in marital chapters, although the elders of the house, as long as they live, will maintain the greater domain . Ramiro's preservation of the royal dignity , now extended to the count's domains [] , the acts of disposition mortis causa of Petronila or the fact that the princeps et dominator regni Aragonum governs "saves the fidelity due" to the king and queen , would enable this interpretation, but the Barbastro document does not conform to the proper meaning of custom, whose true purpose is to exception to the common rules of widowhood, by which, once the titular spouse dies, the survivor, if widowed, retains the usufruct.