Medieval Period (XI - XIV Centuries) 

Carroz, Lord of Rebollet and conqueror of the area of La Marina, received from Jaime I the task of repopulating the recently incorporated region.
It is now known that the repopulation process was a failure, particularly during the first years. Only with the end of the revolts of Al-Azraq, a Muslim chief who plagued the whole region, could the arrival of Christian colonists begin.
The lack of Muslim remains in the confines of present-day Xàbia would seem to indicate its Christian origin, the place where the new arrivals gathered, while the Muslims kept their dwellings dispersed throughout the valley.
The first document to mention Jávea-Xàbia dates from 1258, and states that the nephew of Carroz bought six plots of land in the Jávea valley, but it only begins to appear as a definite population centre from the XIV Century onward: in 1301 King Jaume II ordered the inhabitants of Dénia to move inside the outer walls of the castle, at the same time as he forbade those of Jávea to continue with the tower that they were building, in order to concentrate all his forces in Dénia. Jávea-Xàbia appears as a hamlet, included in the municipal area of Dénia, of which it was an administrative and judicial part.
In 1304, six North African ships razed and burned the valley, an event which made Jaime II change his mind about the fortification of Jávea-Xàbia, as it was necessary to maintain a defensive stronghold in the area. In 1306 the works were not yet finished and finally, in 1308, the king ordered the inhabitants of the hamlet to complete the work urgently, with the threat of being moving them to Dénia.
Jávea’s development meant that its denizens soon wished to be an independent township and, in March 1321, they petitioned the king and obtained the right to have their own justice system, although it was dependent on Dénia.
Jávea-Xàbia was not to remain ownerless for long. In 1323, Prince Pere de Ribagorça gave back to his father, the king, the town of Crevillente, receiving in return Dénia and Jávea.
This moment saw the beginning of the process by which Pere de Ribagorça little by little became lord of the whole region of La Marina, a process which culminated on Christmas Day 1355, when King Pere “Ceremonios” created the earldom of Dénia for his cousin Alfons of Aragon, son of Pere.
There were continual disputes between Dénia and Jávea regarding powers. 1396 is traditionally considered to be the year when Xàbia was granted its own municipal territory. Certainly, in 1403 it had its own Council and a total of 204 citizens obliged to pay the “morabatí.”
On the death of the II Earl of Dénia, his possessions passed to Juan of Navarra, brother and successor to Alfonso the Magnanimous, the new lord, who, either by gift or by sale, dismembered the old earldom. In 1432, Dénia and Jávea-Xàbia came into the hands of the Rojas de Sandoval family, who kept control, despite attempts to reassert royal control over both towns, until the end of the feudal regime.