ABSTRACT
I t is the truth, as you have heard before, that, when the Lord King En Sancho of Mallorca had passed from this
life, the Lord Infante En Jaime, son of the Lord Infante En Ferrando, was seated on the royal throne and, from that hour onwards, was called King of Mallorca, and is still and will be many years, if it be God’s pleasure. And it was ordained by the richs homens and knights and prelates and citizens and townsmen that the very high and pious monsenyer En Felipe of Mallorca, his uncle, should be appointed as guardian of the said Lord King of Mallorca. And it was done as had been ordained. And after monsenyer En Felipe became guardian, he negotiated and brought to good issue that the said Lord King of Mallorca should have to wife the daughter of the Lord Infante En Alfonso, son of the very high Lord King En Jaime of Aragon. The Pope gave a dispensation for this marriage ; and it was made in great concord and love and with the consent of the Houses of Aragon and Mallorca ; wherefore all their subjects had and have and always will have great joy and pleasure and profit in it. God in His mercy give them health and a happy life. The said Lord King of Mallorca, when this marriage treaty was signed, was only eleven years and a few months old. And the Infanta, who is called m y Lady Costanza, was not more than five years and a few months old. God grant them His favour in such manner that the marriage be completed and that they have sons, pleasing to God and an honour and advantage to them and their peoples. And this marriage treaty was signed by both parties in the year of the Incarnation of Our Lord Jesus Christ 1325.
