92 - Concerning the treaty that King Enrique and King Fernando drew up against the King of Aragon and the conditions in it

Summary

Let us say no more about this and return to the deeds of the kings. You heard earlier, when reading the chapter on the flight of King Enrique after he lost the battle of Nájera, how King Pedro and the Prince of Wales made an agreement of friendship with the King of Aragon to prevent King Enrique from finding shelter in his lands. For this reason, when King Enrique later prepared to return to Castile, the King of Aragon sent a message to tell him that he could not pass through his kingdom and that if he tried he would forcibly block his way. King Enrique was very unhappy about this, but he got through to Castile as we have described. From that time to this, we have not found any peace treaties signed by them; rather, it seems to us that they were always at odds.

In the year 1374, the Prince of Mallorca, who was the nephew of the King of Aragon, being the son of his sister, was then King of Naples by right of Queen Giovanna whom he had married. He fought Aragon over the kingdom of Mallorca which belonged to him after the death of King Jaume, its former king, who was removed from the throne by King Pere, then King of Aragon. King Enrique's grievance against the King of Aragon meant that he knew some of his men had entered parts of Aragon in order to help the King of Naples, but he did not blame them, saying that they did it through their own choice, not on his orders; from which it appears that he did not mean well towards the King of Aragon. King Fernando, on the other hand, accused the King of Aragon of unreasonable behaviour and of doing him harm till then, in spite of the fact that we have only found records of when the King of Aragon seized the gold, about which you have heard. Therefore, while King Enrique was in Seville he ordered Fernán Fernández Escobar to go to Portugal to sign a new treaty with King Fernando over and above the agreements contained in the peace treaties we have previously described.