As usually happens, after the pomp and circumstance of the centennial celebrations, what is being commemorated falls into oblivion. So, if we say that this year the Privilege of the Union is 602 years old, two years more than a round centenary, it will be difficult to achieve the captatio benevolentiae.

Well, three days ago, the Royal and General file of Navarre inaugurated a new exhibition in its Gothic conference room : "Charles III of Navarre, the King of Good Government". And under the rule of this monarch, the Pamplona of the three burgs agreed and formally received the Privilege of the Union, on September 8, 1423. Eloísa Ramírez Vaquero has studied one more initiative of his political action, an intelligent management of the affairs of Navarre, especially during the last years of his reign in which this transcendental text is framed, whose critical edition and philological study was carried out by Concha Martínez Pasamar (1995).

It is well known that medieval Pamplona, whose urban traces remain today in the layout of its old quarter, was not made up of three burghs but nominally of one, the burgh of San Saturnino or San Cernin, as well as the town of San Nicolás and its millenary Navarrería or civitas episcopalis. It is not necessary to go into detail about the many reasons that led this king, Charles the Noble (1387-1425), to make the decision to negotiate and put an end to the governmental encystation and secular differences of these three urban pieces with the aim of providing a modern political, social and economic project , and final a legal one, to the "quartered" capital of his kingdom. Some of them are well known, such as the conflict of the "war of the Navarrería" (1276) or the difficulties for the presentation of his grandson, Charles, in the city (1422); although they also include many other problems in the trajectory of this site at different times and in previous contexts that would be worth paying attention to on future occasions.

The document, whose intellectual author was the mayor of the Royal Court, López Jiménez de Lumbier, as Luis Javier Fortún has recently concluded, made possible the creation of a single town hall, a single term and a single jurisdiction for the three historical communities, with a single mayor, a single justice and ten jurors: five for the burgh, three for the town and two for the Navarrería. From then on, the new governing team would meet in the house of Juraría or Consistorial, in no man's land and in the middle of the three entities of habitation (where the seat of the current City Hall is located). With this, and by assigning to all its neighbors the legal status of the regional law General of Navarre, its twenty-nine chapters structured a legal space to settle, among others, internal boundaries, suspicions and conflicts with the bishop, inequalities and disputes over the exploitation of income and collection of fines, the problems of the distribution of basic food goods and a long etcetera of organizational disagreements and social clashes. From the contents of the four copies that, thank God, have come down to us and are now part of the Royal and General file of Navarre, the

In the file the Cathedral of Pamplona and in the Municipal file of Pamplona, which holds two of them, it is worth mentioning on this occasion the question of the creation of the city's emblems. The king ordered that from that moment on, the new city would eliminate the previous signs of its three living spaces and would be represented by a lion passant in silver with red language and nails on a blue field, bordered, in its condition of capital, by a gold chain on a red background identified with the historical arms of the king of Navarre. And, in the last written request, when hosting the place of royal coronation, the cathedral of Santa Maria, it came to wear a royal crown on the lion. Pamplona was thus conceived to be the model of a, according to the document, "very noble city", building a plurisecular space of coexistence, a privileged place explicitly by royal will with the clear goal of evidencing and perpetuating the dialogue or pact between the king and his kingdom. One more step that allows us to strengthen the significance of Pamplona in the medieval centuries as a paradigm and head of a singular political project of its own. This is reflected in the laudatory poem "De laude Pampilone Epistola", included in the Roda Codex ( X century), which identified the city as that "providential place made by God, found by man, chosen by God".