ABSTRACT
Now I shall cease to speak of this matter and will speak again of the Lord King of Aragon and his gracious sons.
CHAPTER X X I. How King En Jaime of Aragon received a letter from the Pope
W h e n the Lord King En Jaime had thus sojourned a long time in his lands, and the Lord Infante En Pedro, and likewise the Lord Infante En Jaime, there came 1272 messengers to the Lord King of Aragon, saying that the Holy Father1 would hold a general Council at Lyons on the Rh6ne, and that he prayed and requested all Christian Kings of the world to be present, they or their representatives. Therefore the Lord King prepared to go, and as he was preparing to go as splendidly as he could, messengers came to him from the Lord King En Alfonso of Castile, his son-in-law, saying that_ he wished to go to the Council and wished to pass through his territory, with the Queen and many of his children, and that for two reasons especially did he wish to pass through his territory. The first was that he and the Queen and his sons had a great desire to see him and
