ABSTRACT

I t is the truth that when the Lord King of Aragon had heard of the battle of the counts (for so it was called and 1283 will always be called, because of the many counts there were in it) and also of the matter of Agosta, and what En Vilaragut had done, he had great joy and great pleasure, and he praised and blessed God for the favour He had shown him. And so also he decided to put his

affairs in order. And when he heard what his messengers, whom he had sent to the Pope and the King of France, told him, he said to himself that this was no trifling matter, that two such powers should be preparing to invade his territory, besides the crusade the Pope had proclaimed against him ; because others might take part

Oct. 1283 in it also. And he had Cortes assembled at Saragossa of all the Aragonese.