ABSTRACT
B e f o r e the Lord King and the richs homens and the others who were assembled at Saragossa for the Cortes departed, a reliable message came to them that En Eustache,1 who was governor of Navarre for the Lord King of France, had invaded Aragon with four thousand armed horse, and that he had taken the tower of Ull, which had been held by En Eximeno de Artieda, a knight of Aragon who was a very accomplished knight; and this appeared in the defence of the tower of Ull, for he did so much there that no knight could do more in any feat of arms. By his prowess he obtained his life, though against his wish. En Eustache commanded he should on no account be killed, for it would be a great loss if such a knight were killed. And so, by force, they took him alive. And when they had taken him, En Eustache sent him to Toulouse, to the castle Narbonne, and ordered him to be handed over to En Tozet de Xanxis who held the castle. Then En Eximeno de Artieda did so much by his prowess that he fled from that place and returned to Aragon, and did much harm to the French when he was out of prison. But I shall cease to speak of him, for there would be much to do if one wished to recount all the prowess and bold and worthy deeds that the knights of Aragon and Catalonia performed in these wars and in others, and there would not be time to write it. And it is said in Catalonia that the work exalts the
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