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This article compiles a large part of the copious documentation concerning the cathedral, the Chapter of the Augustinian canons and the bishopric of Tortosa, investigated by the author in de registries of the Royal Chancery and the archives of the Royal Property Record Office of Barcelona. These documents, which go from the second half of the XIV century to the beginning of the XV, complete the documentation from the Chapter Archive of the Cathedral of Tortosa. In the first part the author studies the works undertaken to build the gothic cathedral, identifies some of its masters and their role in the construction, as well as their relations with the Chapter of the Cathedral and other master builders at that time. It is a very close approach to those works and the periods of greater and lesser activity, which apparently reflect the different times undergone by the Chapter. The second part focuses on the Chapter of the Cathedral and its different dignitaries and canons, its internal matters, the conflicts created by external interference as well as the internal tensions aroused by royal interference, the Pope's lack of interest and the neutrality of King Pere III concerning the Schism of Western Christianity. The defense by the Chapter of its rights under the administration, imposed on them, of Pedro de Luna (1399-1403) is analysed in detail and results in an appendix of documents.