Ramon Muntaner (1265–1336) was a Catalan mercenary, administrator, and chronicler whose firsthand accounts form one of the great medieval historical narratives of the Mediterranean world - wikipedia ![]()

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His Chronicle is notable for its immediacy and participation. Muntaner did not write as a distant historian but as someone embedded within events, especially the campaigns of the Catalan Company across Byzantium and the eastern Mediterranean.
Muntaner offers rare insight into how federations, alliances, and mercenary forces actually function from the inside. His work shows how loyalty, greed, identity, and myth collide during imperial expansion.
In a Hitchhiker science fiction setting, Muntaner serves as a dangerous eyewitness narrator, documenting the Intergalactic Congress itself and quietly revealing how grand coalitions unravel.
# Grave Ramon Muntaner is believed to be buried in **Ibiza**, where he served as royal governor in his later years, although the **exact location of his grave is not known** and no marked tomb survives.
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