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Rabī‘a (r. 1308 – 1310 ). See also Giménez Soler, “Caballeros españoles,” 308 – 12 ;
Alemany, “Milicias cristianas,” 146 – 50 ; Dufourcq, L’Espagne Catalane, 456 – 57 ;
and Clement, “Reverter,” 82.
115. For instance, ACA, R. 64 , fol. 178 v (Apr. 1286 ), negotiations with Tlem-
cen: “Item que todos los cristianos que seran en la terra del Rey de Tirimçe de
qualesquier condiciones o senyorias, que sean jutgados por fuero d’Aragon por
aquel alcayt que el Rey don Alfonso ala enbiarra”; ACA, R. 64 , fol. 192 r – v ( 1286 ),
negotiations in Tunis; ACA, R. 64 , fols. 191 r – 192 r (Mar. 1286 ), negotiations with
Tunis, which do not mention Christian knights but only navy; ACA, R. 73 , fol. 90 r – v
(Dec. 1290 ), negotiations with Tunis; ACA, R. 252 , fol. 53 r – v (May 1293 ), nego-
tiations with Tlemcen; ACA, R. 252 , fol. 99 r (July 1294 ), letter to Tunis; and ACA,
R. 337 , fols. 195 r – 196 r (July 1313 ), negotiations with Tunis.
116. Cf. ACB, Perg., 1 - 6 - 325 , as cited by Batlle, “Noticias,” 134 , on the use of
debased currency to pay soldiers.
117. For example, ACA, R. 47 , fols. 81 r – 82 v ( 1285 ); ACA, Cartas árabes,
no. 155 ( 1287 , bilingual): “ ‘alā mā jarat bihi al- ‘āda f ī zamān mukarrim dūn qilyām
damūnqāda aw f ī muddat- al- mu‘aḍḍim dūn anrīq bin al- mu‘aḍḍim malik qashtāla /
secundum quod hec consue[verun]t fieri tempore nobilis Guillemi de Monteca-
theno quondam vel tempore illustris Anrici filii illustris regis Castelle”; ACA,
R. 73 , fol. 90 r ( 1290 ): “axi con era el temps de Guillelm de Moncada”; and ACA,
R. 252 , fol. 53 r – v ( 1293 ). See also Burns, “Renegades,” 352 ; Barton, “Traitors to
the Faith?” 33 ; and Batlle, “Noticias,” 128.
118. Although these stipulations are only vaguely referred to in the Almohad
period, they were likely similar. See Ibn Khaldūn, Kitāb al- ‘ibar, VI: 270 [my em-
phasis]: “wa- istamadda al- ṭāghiya ‘askaran min al- naṣārā wa- amarahu ‘alā shurūṭ
taqabbalahā minhu al- ma’mūn.”
119. ACA, Cartas árabes, no. 155.
120. ACA, R. 197 , fol. 7 v (Oct. 1299 ); ACA, R. 240 , fols. 204 v – 205 r (May
1313 ); and ACA, R. 337 , fols. 195 r – 196 r (July 1313 ). See also Alemany, “Milicias
cristianas,” 134 , 165 – 68. See Barrantes Maldonado, Ilustraciones de la casa de Nie-
bla, 67 , for the complaints.
121. See, for example, ACA, R. 14 , fol. 141 r: “... Dantes vobis plenam licen-
ciam et potestatem audiendi et iudicandi causas que ibi inter aliquos christianos
predictos terre nostre contigerit ventilari et faciendi ibi iusticie criminales et alias
prout faciendum sit et exercendi in omnibus et per omnia officium ipsius alcaydie
secundum quod alii alcaydi consuerunt ipsam hactenus exercere... .” Among many
records naming or confirming captains, see ACA, R. 197 , fol. 7 v (Tunis); ACA,
R. 203 , fol. 33 v (Tunis); ACA, R. 203 , fol. 35 r (Tunis); ACA, R. 203 , fol. 220 r (Tunis);
ACA, R. 244 , fol. 286 v (Tlemcen); ACA, CR, Jaume II, caixa 19 , no. 2406 (Tunis);
and ACA, CR, Jaume II, caixa 134 , Judíos y Musulmanes, no. 178 (Rabat).
122. ACA, R. 244 , fol. 286 r; ACA, R. 250 , fols. 43 v – 44 r (Jaume d’Arago);
ACA, R. 250 , fol. 50 v; ACA, R. 338 , fols. 150 v – 151 r; ACA, R. 338 , fol. 151 v; ACA,