Pere March was a Valencian

Valencian

Valencian is the traditional and official name of the Catalan language in the Valencian Community. There are dialectical differences from standard Catalan, and under the Valencian Statute of Autonomy, the Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua has been established as its regulator...

 poet

Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

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Younger brother of Jaume March II

Jaume March II

Jaume March was a Catalan language poet.Brother of Pere March and uncle of Arnau March and the renowned Ausiàs March, Jaume's family had been lawyers and officers of the court of the kingdom of Aragon. Born in Valencia he was seemingly the eldest son, and inherited the family's possessions around...

, uncle of Arnau March

Arnau March

Arnau March was a Provenço-Catalan knight and poet of the famous March family. He was related—it is unknown how—to Jaume I, Jaume II, Pere, and Ausiàs March. He bore the rank of mossèn...

, and father of Ausiàs March

Ausiàs March

Ausiàs March was a Valencian poet who was born in Gandia towards the end of the 14th century. He was the son of Pere March, nephew of Jaume March II, and cousin of Arnau March....

, Pere's family had been lawyers and officers of the court of the kingdom of Aragon

Kingdom of Aragon

The Kingdom of Aragon was a medieval and early modern kingdom in the Iberian Peninsula, corresponding to the modern-day autonomous community of Aragon, in Spain...

. Born in Valencia he was seemingly the younger son, and the family's possessions around Barcelona

Barcelona

Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...

 passed to Jaume.

Pere served at the court of the younger brother of King Alfonso IV

Alfonso IV of Aragon

Alfonso IV, called the Kind was the King of Aragon and Count of Barcelona from 1327 to his death. He was the second son of James II and Blanche of Anjou...

, Peter, seneschal of Catalonia, and then at the court of Peter's son Alfonso, Duke of Gandia

Gandia

Gandia is a city and municipality in the Valencian Community, Eastern Spain on the Mediterranean. Gandia is located on the Costa del Azahar, 65 km south of Valencia and 96 km north of Alicante....

, and of Alfonso's son Alfonso. He undertook several important diplomatic missions, travelling to England

England

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 for the first Alfonso twice in the 1380s, and then working for the second during the interregnum

Interregnum

An interregnum is a period of discontinuity or "gap" in a government, organization, or social order...

 following the death of King Martin I

Martin I of Aragon

Martin of Aragon , called the Elder, the Humane, the Ecclesiastic, was the King of Aragon, Valencia, Sardinia, and Corsica and Count of Barcelona from 1396 and King of Sicily from 1409...

. For his services, Pere was knighted.

After his death in 1413 his body was moved and buried in the Monastery of Sant Jeroni de Cotalba

Monastery of Sant Jeroni de Cotalba

The Monastery of Sant Jeroni de Cotalba is a monastic building of Gothic, Renaissance and Neoclassical styles constructed between the 14th and 18th centuries, located in the municipal area of Alfauir, , Spain.- History :...

, in Alfahuir, (Valencia).

Along with verses he wrote together with Jaume, three major poems by Pere March survive:

• El mal d'amor
• L'arnés del cavaller
• Lo compte final