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aqui, gradeçemos vos lo muyto e pregamos vos que toda via nos lo fagades saber.”
See also Romano, “Los hermanos Abenmenassé,” 292. Doña Agnes was a concu-
bine of King Pere II.
40. ACA, R. 43 , fol. 129 v (my emphasis): “... scriptor noster maior de arabico.”
41. ACA, R. 48 , fol. 6 v ( 28 Apr. 1280 ): “In Algezira sigillavimus quandam lit-
eram Sarracenicam que ut Samuel Alfaquimus dixit erat recognitionis Sarraceo-
rum Xative... .”
42. ACA, R. 47 , fol. 41 r ( 30 Apr. 1282 ): “... tradidimus Samueli alphaquimo
cartam pacis Regis Granate latine et arabice scriptam.” Cf. Helene Wieruszowski,
“Conjuraciones y alianzas políticas del Rey Pedro de Aragón contra Carlos de
Anjou antes de las vísperas Sicilianas,” Boletín de la Real Academia de la Historia
107 ( 1935 ): 583 ; Dufourcq, L’Espagne catalane, 205.
43. Romano, “Los hermanos Abenmenassé,” 258 – 60.
44. ACA, R. 42 , fol. 208 v ( 18 Jan. 1279 ).
45. ACA, R. 46 , fol. 100 v ( 8 Aug. 1284 ): “... saber asso trametem nos lo feal
alphaquim nostre do Samuel quius dira nostre enteniment sobre asso per queus
pregam eus manam que aquels de cascuna de les vostres aliames quel dit alpha-
quim nostre elegira a asso nos trametats ab companya de balesters et de lancers de
cascuna daqueles aliames be aparelats et be adobats et nos darem a aquels bona
soldada.” Cf. edition in Colección de documentos inéditos del Archivo de la Corona
de Aragón, ed. Próspero Bofarull y Mascaró, VI: 196.
46. Romano, “Los hermanos Abenmenassé,” 265 – 68.
47. For the relations between Aragon and Sicily, see Wieruszowski, “Conjura-
ciones y alianzas políticas”; idem, “La Corte di Pietro”; J. Lee Shneidman, “Ara-
gon and the War of the Sicilian Vespers,” Historian 22 , no. 3 ( 1960 ): 250 – 63 ; and
David Abulafia, The Western Mediterranean Kingdoms, 1200 – 1500.
48. On the marriage, see Muntaner, Crònica, chap. 1 ; and Luc d’Achery, ed.,
Spicilegium: sive, Collectio veterum aliquot scriptorum qui in Galliae bibliothecis
delituerant, III: 644.
49. Muntaner, Crònica, chap. 17.
50. Pere wrote a letter to Louis, disavowing any such intention. See Julián Paz
de Espéso, Documentos relativos a España existentes en los Archivos Nacionales
de Paris, doc. 87 , as cited in Shneidman, “Sicilian Vespers,” 254. See also Soldevila,
Pere el Gran, I: 93 ; and Robert Ignatius Burns, “Warrior Neighbors: Alfonso El
Sabio and Crusader Valencia, An Archival Case Study in His International Rela-
tions,” Viator 21 , no. 1 ( 1990 ): 156 – 62.
51. The Hohenstaufen pretender to the throne was Conradin, “Little Conrad,”
son of Conrad IV ( 1222 – 54 ), a brother of Manfred. Wieruszowski, “Conjuracio-
nes,” 579 ; and David Abulafia, “The Kingdom of Sicily Under the Hohenstaufen
and Angevins,” in The New Cambridge Medieval History, c. 1198 – 1300 , ed. David
Abulafia, V: 508.
52. Giuseppe La Mantia, Codice diplomatico dei re Aragonesi di Sicilia: Pietro
I, Giacomo, Federico II, Pietro II e Ludovico, Dalla rivoluzione Siciliana del 1282