Messina, defeat of Charles of Anjou at, 60, 61, 63; Pedro III. at: speech to the Sicilians, 64; rejoicings at Lauria’s victories, 66; Queen Constance at, 79, 81; relieved by Roger de Flor, 102; heiress of the Morea married to Prince Fernando of Majorca at, 129; Sir George Byng off, 256; siege, 260
Metellus and Romans occupied Minorca, 227
Michael, son of the Emperor Andronicus: his hatred of the Company, 104; his murder of Roger de Flor, 105
_Milford_, H.M.S., Captain Philip Stanhope, 245
Minorca, 8; subdued, 43, 44; dimensions, 219; surface and vegetation, 220; plants, 220; stalactitic cave, 221; prehistoric remains, 221-224; Phœnicians and Carthaginians, 225; under the Romans, 227, and Moors, 228, 229; conquest by Alfonso III. of Aragon, 230-234; chronicler, 235; Moors expelled, 236; government under Aragon, 237; attacked by pirates, 237-240; British troops land, under Stanhope, 247; under British rule, 253, 263; magistracy, 267, 268; judiciary, 268; prosperity under British rule, 269; value as a naval base, 258; works on botany of, 270 (_n_); peasantry, 267; restored to England, 279; re-taken by the French, 280; recovered by England, 284; ceded to Spain, 288; subsequent condition, 289, 290
Miramar, Lulio’s college at, 115; King Sancho at, 139; Archduke Luis-Salvator, 215, 216
Moix, Antonio and Perote, attack on the cave of Arta, 36
Moncada, En Guillem de, Viscount of Bearne, 12; in the leading ship of the fleet to invade Majorca, 13, 14; rebuked the King’s foolhardiness, 17; killed in battle, 20; interment, 21
Moncada, Ramon de, 12, 14, 16; slain, 20; his son: coat of arms granted, 36; Gaston de, grant of Soller to, 41; one of the great Majorca feudatories, 45
Moncada, supporter of Federigo of Sicily, 100; a viceroy of Majorca 190
Monserrat, Marquis of, married Isabel of Majorca, 154
Montenegro, Counts of. _See_ Despuig; _see_ Raxa.
Monterey, Romana defeated by French at, 206
Montfort, Simon de, surrendered young Jayme, 6
Montpellier, Pedro II. married to heiress of, 6; King Jayme in a ship of, 14; marriage of Pedro III. and Constance at, 48; Jayme II. of Minorca succeeded to, 50, 55, 56; promise of France never to interfere with, 60, 105, 137; sold to France by Jayme III., 147