Espluga del Castell de la Clua

The first records of the term date to the year 1059, when Garsenda gave to the monastery of Santa Maria de Meià some vineyards located in la Clua. The castle belonged to the patrimony of the Meià family. In the year 1193, Guillem de Meià in his will left to his sister Ermessenda and to her son, Ramon de Cervera, several castles, among them that of la Clua. In the year 1311, Dolça de Cervera gave the castle of la Clua and the others of the Meià family to her son Pere II d'Ayerbe, who in 1312 exchanged with King Jaume II all his patrimony in Catalonia for several castles located in Aragon. Immediately afterwards, the king incorporated them into the crown. The castle was considered to be located in the marquisate of Camarasa but it does not appear in any document referring to the castles dependent on the infantes Ferran and Martí, possessors of the marquisate. In 1405, Ramon Picó held the castle in fief from the king. The following year the castle was sold by Bernat de Cruïlles. In 1453, the feudatory was Bernat de Vilagaià, who had a conflict over boundaries with the chapter of the Seu d'Urgell. A descendant of his, Miquel de Vilagaià, ordered the sale of the castle of la Clua, which Joana, probably his wife, did in the year 1505, to Pere de Rocaspana together with all civil and criminal jurisdiction.

At the time of the disappearance of jurisdictional lordships, the castle was under the dominion of the noble Gomes.

Roig i Jalpí, in the middle of the 17th century, gives the description of the castle: En el lugar de Clua entre unas peñas, hay un castillo medio habitable.