Cridem l’atenció sobre la figura històrica de l’estrenu cavaller i baró valencià Jaume de Vilaragut (+ca. 1464), amic des de jove de Joanot Martorell, lector devot de cavalleries artúriques i matèria de Troia, casat amb una Martorell, corsari defensor de Rodes, presoner del Gran Caramany i del sultà de Babilònia, resident a Nàpols amb l’autor del Tirant lo Blanc (1460-1464), comandant frustrat d’una croada per a recuperar Constantinoble a iniciativa de Calixt III (1455). Podria haver inspirat la figura literària de Tirant. Reforça aquesta consideració hipotètica l’existència de tres Carmesines a mitjan segle XV relacionades amb ell: una Carmesina “criada” seua i possible amant, pel 1450; Carmesina Requesens, neboda seua, nada en la dècada del 1450, i Carmesina de Corella, apadrinada segurament per ell el 1452. La primera Carmesina, sens dubte, podria haver inspirat la princesa de la ficció cavalleresca.
This article focuses on the historical Valencian knight and baron Jaume de Vilaragut (+ca. 1464), a friend from chilhood of Joanot Martorell, a devout reader of chivalric and Arthurian literature as well as of romances of materia Trojana. He married a member of the Martorell family, became a corsary and defender of Rhodes, was a prisoner of the Great Caramany and of the sultan of Babylon. He also resided at Naples together with the author of Tirant lo Blanc (1460-1464), and was a frustrated commander of the Crusade to recuperate Constantinople following the plan of Pope Calixtus III (1455). He could have been the inspiration for Tirant himself. This hypothesis is reinforces by the fact that there are three Carmesines from the mid-15th century associated with him: A Carmesina his ""servant"" and possibly his lover; Carmesina Requesens, his niece, born in the 1450s; and Carmesina de Corella, of whom he was godfather ca. 1452. The first Carmesina could have been the inspiration for the princess Carmesina of the chivalric novel.
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