notes to pages 43–45 177
- ACA, R. 33 , fols. 104 v – 105 r, records the payments of several Mudéjar com-
munities for the army going to Valencia. ACA, R. 39 , fol. 227 v ( 28 July 1277 ), as
cited in Catlos, Victors and the Vanquished, 264 , gives the Mudéjares of Alagón
the choice of serving or paying the king 1000 solidi. See also Ferran Soldevila, Pere
el Gran, II: 1 , doc. 83 ( 25 July 1277 ), as cited in Burns, Islam under the Crusaders,
- ACA, R. 39 , fol. 223 r ( 2 Aug. 1277 ).
- See Helene Wieruszowski, “La Corte di Pietro d’Aragona e i precedenti
dell’impresa Siciliana,” Archivio storico italiano 16 ( 1938 ): 192 – 94 , esp. 194 n 3 ; and
Muntaner, Crònica, chap. 18. - ACA, R. 40 , fol. 95 r ( 13 May 1278 ).
- Burns, Islam under the Crusaders, 323 – 32 ; Muntaner, Crònica, chap. 31.
- Muntaner, Crònica, chap. 31. ACA, R. 46 , fol. 120 r – v, instructions for an
embassy, recording the deteriorating relationship with Tunis. See also Dufourcq,
L’Espagne catalane, 238 ff. - Muntaner, Crònica, chap. 30 ; Dufourcq, L’Espagne catalane, 240 ; and idem,
“La Couronne d’Aragon et les Hafsides,” 10. - ACA, R. 44 , fol. 160 v ( 14 Nov. 1279 ): “... damus et concedemus vobis dicto
Conrado Lancee et vestris inperpetuum... castrum villam villas et alcariis omnes
de albayda.” ACA, R. 42 , fol. 214 r (Jan. 1280 ), the first mention of Lancia as gov-
ernor. Cf. ARV, Justicia de Valencia, 1 , fol. 27 r ( 1280 ), which refers to him as a
“lieutenant procurator”; and ARV, Justicia de Valencia, 1 bis, fol. 15 v ( 1280 ), which
refers to him as “procurador en tot lo Regne de Valencia.” See also Dufourcq,
L’Espagne catalane, 201 , 244. - ACA, R. 52 , fol. 67 r ( 1 Nov. 1284 ): “... hostiario maiori domus nostre ac
magistro rationali... .” - For more detail about this figure, see David Romano, “Los hermanos Aben-
menassé al servicio de Pedro el Grande de Aragón,” Homenaje a Millás Vallicrosa
1 ( 1956 ): 249 ; and Hussein Fancy, “The Intimacy of Exception: The Diagnosis of
Samuel Abenmenassé,” in Center and Periphery: Studies on Power in the Medieval
World in Honor of William Chester Jordan, ed. Katherine L. Jansen, G. Geltner,
and Anne E. Lester, 65 – 75. - ACA, R. 43 , fol. 129 v ( 13 Feb. 1279 ): “... fideli nostro Samueli, filio Abra-
him Bonnemaiz, in vita vestra alfaquimatum nostrum et scribaniam nostram de
arabico. Ita quod vos in vita vestra sitis alfaquimus et fisicus noster et de domo
nostra et scriptor noster maior de arabico dum bene et legaliter vos in ipsis officiis
habeatis.” See also David Romano, “Judíos, escribanos y trujamanes de árabe en
la Corona de Aragón (reinados de Jaime I a Jaime II),” Sefarad 38 ( 1978 ): 73 – 77 ;
Joaquín Miret y Sans, “Les médecins Juifs de Pierre, roi d’Aragon,” Revue des
études juives 57 ( 1909 ): 268 – 78 ; and J. Lee Shneidman, “Jews in the Royal Admin-
istration of 13 th Century Aragón,” Historia Judaica 21 ( 1959 ): 37 – 52. - ACA, R. 56 , fol. 93 v ( 4 May 1285 ): “... e lo al que nos en viastes dezir de
la salud e del estamiento de dona Agnes e de la otra companyna nuestra que son