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Most members of the Majorcan school (with the exception of Soler) were [[Jews]], whether practicing or [[conversos]]. As a result, the school suffered heavily and eventually expired with the extension of force-conversion, expulsions and the [[Spanish Inquisition]] into the realms of the Crown of Aragon in the late 15th C.
The production of [[medieval]] [[Portolan chart]]s can be divided in two major schools: the [[Italy|Italian]] and the Catalan. Italian medieval cartographers came mostly from [[Genoa]] and [[Venice]]. [[Catalan charts]] were made in Majorca and [[Barcelona]]. Beside these two major schools, some maps were made in [[Portugal]], but no examples survive.<ref name=" History of Cartography " />
The inhabitants of Majorca were great navigators and cartographers. Their geographical knowledge was earned from their own experience and developed in a multicultural atmosphere. Muslim and Jewish merchants participated in extensive trade with Egypt and Tunisia, and in the 14th century they started doing business with [[England]] and [[Netherlands]]. These groups were not limited by the rules imposed by the Christian framework, and their maps were way ahead of their time. Professor Gerald Crone, who wrote books on medieval mapping, said of these cartographers, they "...threw off the bounds of tradition and anticipated the achievements of the [[The Renaissance|Renaissance]]". The maps they made were prized by the princes and rulers of the Spanish mainland and other countries. The maps made in Majorca were easy to recognize by their brightly colored illustrations of significant geographical features and portraits of foreign rulers.<ref name="newberry library"/>
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