notes to pages 87–89 213
- Barton, “Traitors to the Faith?” 28 – 29.
- For instance, Sancho the Fat of Navarre, who fought at Las Navas de To-
losa, also allied himself with the Almohads (Llibre dels feyts, chap. 138 ). For more
detail, see Burns, “Renegades, Adventurers, and Sharp Businessmen,” 351 – 54. - Llibre dels feyts, chaps. 75 , 90 , as cited in Burns, “Renegades, Adventurers,
and Sharp Businessmen,” 354 – 55. - See chapter 3 n 157.
- María Desamparados Cabanes Pecourt, ed., Crónica latina de los reyes de
Castilla, 117 : “Christiani milites nobiles ducenti qui serviebant ei pro stipendiies
suis.” See Burns, “Renegades, Adventurers, and Sharp Businessmen,” 351. - Ibn Khaldūn, Kitāb al- ‘ibar, VI: 311 , for the use of Christian militia against
the Banū Ashqilūla. Cf. ACA, R. 1389 , fol. 31 (ca. 1371 – 72 ): “Los barones e richos
hombres de nuestro senyorio han de costumbre muy antiga del tiempo aqua que
la tierra es de christianos que puedan ir con sus companyas en aiuda de qual Rey
se quiera christiano o moro.” See also Barton, “Traitors to the Faith?” 32 ; and
Viguera Molins, “Ejercito,” 432. - Ibn ‘Idhārī, al- Bayān al- mughrib, IV: 102 ; Ibn Simāk al- ‘Āmilī, al- Ḥulal al-
mawshiyya, 149 : “wa huwa awwal man ista‘mala al- Rūm bi’l- Maghrib”; Ibn Abī
Zar‘, Kitāb al- anīs al- muṭrib, 199 ; and al- Nuwayrī, al- Maghrib al- Islāmī, 391. See
also Alemany, “Milicias cristianas,” 135 – 36. - A. Maya Sánchez, ed., Chronica Adefonsi Imperatoris, in Chronica Hispana
saeculi XII, Corpus Christianorum. Continuatio Medievalis, 71 , ii.§ 10. Translation
adapted from Barton, “Traitors to the Faith?” 27. See also García Sanjuán, “Mer-
cenarios cristianos,” 440. - García Sanjuán, “Mercenarios cristianos,” 440 – 41 ; Vincent Lagadre, “Com-
munautés mozarabes et pouvoir almoravides en 519 H/ 1125 en Andalus,” Studia
Islamica 67 ( 1988 ): 99 – 119 ; and Delfina Serrano, “Dos fetuas sobre la expulsión de
mozárabes al Magreb en 1126 ,” Anaquel de estudios árabes 2 ( 1991 ): 167. - Maya Sánchez, Chronica Adefonsi Imperatoris, ii.§ 10 , as cited in Barton,
“Traitors to the Faith?” 27. For more on Reverter, see texts cited above as well
as F. Carreras Candi, “Relaciones de los vizcondes de Barcelona con los árabes,”
in Homenaje á D. Francisco Codera en su jubilación del profesorado, ed. Edu-
ardo Saavedra, 207 – 15 ; and Santiago Sobrequés Vidal, Els barons a Catalunya,
39 – 40. - Frank, “Reverter,” 198 , accepts on the authority of the Chronica Adefonsi
Imperatoris that Reverter was a captive of war. J. E. Ruiz Domènec, “Las cartas de
Reverter, vizconde de Barcelona,” Boletin de la Real Academia de Buenas Letras
de Barcelona 39 ( 1982 – 85 ): 96 , argues that Reverter came voluntarily. - Ibn Khaldūn, Kitāb al- ‘ibar, VI: 245 – 46 ; Ibn ‘Idhārī, al- Bayān al- mughrib,
IV: 103 ; Clement, “Reverter,” 94 – 95 ; Alemany, “Milicias cristianas,” 136 ; and Gar-
cía Sanjuán, “Mercenarios cristianos,” 438. - Ibn Khaldūn, Kitāb al- ‘ibar, VI: 205 , 259 – 60 , and 264 , on ‘Alī b. Reverter’s
role in the conquest of Mallorca by the Almohads.