C H R O N I C L E M ES 1 K I NG OF A RAGON J A , , SU RNAM ED TH E CONQUEROR W EN BY H I M EL ( RI TT S F) . VOL. I I . C H R O N I C L E M ES 1 K NG OF ARAGON J A , I , SU RNAMED TH E CONQUEROR (WRI TTEN BY H I MSELF) . VOL . II TH E C H RON I C L E A M E S 1 K . I N G O F A RA G O N J , S U R NAM E D TH E CONQU E ROR WRI TT N BY I M F ( E H SEL ) . TRAN SLA TE D F R O}! TH E CA TALAN B Y TH E LA TE H N F RSTER JO O . ESQ ’ M J . for M id . WI TH an ateria l mm ! M , m , ga mbit , 6 10mm, mu 6 mm h m, P A S ’ " C L A I . D I , G A Y A N G O S , M m lh R A m 1 m qf W c y qf m, TW V L E I NJ O O UM S . VOL. I I . THE C H RON I CLE A M E S F A R A N J O G O . CCLXXXVI I I . WH EN they were be fore me I said that as to what s r nt it willin l was they had a ked I g a ed g y, and con tent ; those they had named should undertake the division ; they gave me great thanks and kissed my a t ft s fo r hand . Thereupon I w i ed fi een day their s but t s at divi ion , hey made no divi ion all. Then Don A ssalit de Gudar and Don Exe me n Perez de Tarazona came again to me and said : Now we know what you said to us to be true ; men of thi n wits do not know how to go about in matters of ” t s s t t s to ta . t t t t hi or , or wha cour e ke I old hem ha next day I would s end for the bishops and would if t e s s of the hear hey w re making divi ion land , t t or what hey were abou . They came and said Know s urely that we find great difficulty in this VOL . I I . D D TH E R or A 40 2 CH ONICLE JAMES OF RAGON . s ss a t t s bu ine , and we re lly believe ha we hall have s f s to re ign our o fice into your hands . I aid s ? ta How re ign Since you have ken charge, by s ofit t t a all mean make an end and hey wen aw y. the t da f t t t a fo r On hird y rom ha hey came b ck, r out s t t t s people were c ying , and aying ha ho e partitioners were in a bad way ; they were no t the s at but a t s dividing land all , m king hem pend the ir money in vain ; they themselves s aid that v it for t not they would gi e up, hey did believe i n t s that they could bring t to a end . I hen aid “ s to v Since you wi h gi e up your charge , I will s for the s for the ts fo r the end baron , knigh , and of the t s f of m men ci ie , be ore all who you will to t a deliver up your charge me . I hen held x t the o f K n grea council in palace i g Lope , and f t at f e s be ore h council they ormally r igned . CCLXX X IX . When I had received their resignation I s ent fo r E xe me n z As salit Don Perez de Tara ona, and Don and sa to t : S a to de Gudar, id hem The h me you s to t for the s s t a come no hing, bi hop canno m ke a division of the lands ; it would have been other s if it s t of t m wi e had been made in de pi e he , and A former i n of Valencia named Lo called A en Lo e k g , L], bb, b p b the S an iard s y p . TH E N 0 CHRONICLE OF JAMES OF ARAGO . 4 3 t s t hey had interfered with you . They aid hey t t s t t had t the gave me grea hank , and ha I aken tt sa N o w s be er way. I id I will how you how to make division of the lands ; you mus t do it as it was done in Mallorca ; in no other wise ‘ ' it s the ouv ada can be done . You hall reduce j ’ to six cafi ade s it s t ouv ada c ; will ill be called a j , ‘ L t t s to and ye t will not be one . e ho e whom I gave too much have their land remeas ured by ” ‘ t s s sa s t was hi cale. They id I poke well ; here t wa and so t t d t m no o her y, would hey do. I ol he ls to as k for the t s of the ts and t t a o char er gran , ha when I had seen them I would give to the owners t of a in proportion t o the amoun l nd . They did so t s was the s of the a , and hu final divi ion l nd t at ma a made . And h men y know when Valenci was t it was ta e s aken , ken on Micha lma Eve , in a th XXX X 1 2 . e year MCC I . [ 3 9] The j ouvada was really of the king counted n o doubt from twelve cafi ade s so that the the I n carnation which lo call c , , gi y ki n ave onl one-half of what s ea i n re ceded the N ativ it g g y p k g, p y had b n romi se d unde r that b n in mon i ee p y e ths, n stead offollow d nom ati on . Beuter Cran . 1 1 . i n i thr m nth e in , g t ee o s after. The 1 wri te r of he Chroni c e wh c. 4 . t l , oeve r o n to all accounts he was must have u h Acc rdi g , tho g t that Valencia surrendered to King the month of Se pte mber ofthe v M i ha l ear 1 2 8 or lse h N e n th e e of St. c e e t Jam s o e , y 3 , e ativ ity whi ch corresponds e xactly wi th coin cided wi ththat ofSe ptember h a iv n in th r Of the 1 2 of he I ncarn i t e d te g e e d aft 39, t at on . Thi s ca itulation a Rusafa but then i s one ofthe ar men r p t , gu ts p oduce d the e ar was 1 2 8 ins ad of1 2 b Villat o a ar te C tas . y 3 39, y y , , &c , again st as the Chron cle sa s whi cherror the th i y , au orship of Ki n Jame s g . is e asil e x lain d b the fact that Se e n r i y p e y I t oduct on. D D 2 RA N 404 TH E CHRONICLE OF JAMES OF A GO . CCXC . s the st of a Here begin Conque Murci , achieved nd the r s K acm a made by glo iou ing En J e . After Valencia was taken came En Ramon F oloh t his t s f s— f de Cardona, wi h rela ive and ollower ull fifty knights ; and they said to me that s ince they had not been at the s iege they prayed that it might please me that they should make a raid into the land it s t at t s of Murcia. And plea ed me h hey hould do ‘ so t t t t t so n ; and hey ook wi h hem Ar al de Alagon , of s the tr for Don Bla co, who knew coun y well , he s a had been there before . The fir t pl ce they attacked was t ot t t t t Villena. When hey g near ha own hey ca a s ed t s s ut s as p ri on heir hor e , p on uch armour t t s a st the a s hey had here, and purred on gain S racen of at tak f t f two ts Villena, once ing rom hem ull par But ft t t t n ot d o f the town .