ABSTRACT
And the others who were with him did so well that no knights could perform greater feats of chivalry than they did. Of the almugavars, it is right I should tell you that they went at them with shortened lances in such manner that there was no horse left that was not disabled. And this they did when they had spent all their darts, for you may believe that there was no one who, with his dart, had not killed a knight or a horse. And then, with the shortened lances they did marvels. And the Lord King was now here, now there, now on the right, now on the left, and fought so hard with his sword that it broke all to pieces. And at once he seized his mace, with which he attacked better than any man in the world. And he approached the count of Nevers, who was chief of that company, and with his mace gave him such a blow on the helmet that he felled him to the ground. And at once he turned and said to a gallant youth who never left his side, who was called En G. Escriva and came from Jativa, and who was riding a horse with a light saddle : “ Guillem, dismount and kill him.” And the young man set foot on the ground and killed him. And when he had killed him, to his undoing, the sword the count was carrying, which was very richly orna mented, caught his eye and he unfastened i t ; and whilst he was unfastening it, a knight of the dead count, seeing that this youth had killed his lord, rushed at him and gave him such a blow on the shoulders that he killed him. And the Lord King turned and seeing that this knight had killed Guillem Escriva, gave him such a blow of his mace on his iron cap that his brains came out at his ears and he fell dead to the ground. And in this place, because of the count who had been killed, you might have seen blows given and taken. And the Lord King who saw his followers so hard pressed, rushed upon his enemies and made room for himself, for he, altogether, killed with his own hand more than fifteen knights;
for, believe me, those he reached needed not more than one blow.
