ABSTRACT
In terms of dramatic content, Alfonso X's return to Castile from his meeting with Pope Gregory X at Beaucaire was altogether the equal of Henry IV of Germany's journey to Canossa. On receiving the archbishop's instructions at Palencia, however, the prior was assailed by doubts, doubts regarding their basis in law: 'quedam de quibus dubitans', he therefore requested better particulars from Don Remondo. By 1280 the Castilian climate had chilled further, and when in the March of that year the archbishop of Seville recruited another Dominican to preach the crusade for him, he did so in the immediate aftermath of Nicholas III's frontal attack on Alfonso X delivered through the agency of his nuncio Bishop Pietro of Rieti. While the king had been visiting the pope, taking with him his other principal councillor, the notary for Castile, it was to D. Remondo that the affairs of the kingdom had been entrusted and from Seville that he had administered them.
