The historians' history of the world in twenty-five volumes, volume 10 : $b Spain and Portugal
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The historians' history of the world in twenty-five volumes, volume 10 : $b Spain and Portugal
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You must know that so soon as the battle was won, from that day onwards
there was little harmony between Don Pedro and the prince, and the
reason thereof was as follows. In the first place, upon the day of the
battle, a gentleman named Iñigo Lopez de Orozco was taken prisoner by a
gentleman of Gascony, whereupon Don Pedro rode upon horseback, and slew
the said Iñigo Lopez; and the gentleman whose prisoner he was complained
to the prince that, this man being his prisoner, Don Pedro came up and
killed him; and he complained not only for the loss of his prisoner, but
also because he held himself greatly dishonoured by the death of this
gentleman who had surrendered to him, and was in his power.
The prince said to Don Pedro that it was not well done of him, for he
knew full well that one of the chief articles of those agreed, sworn,
and signed between them, was that the king should not put to death any
gentleman of Castile, nor any person of note, while the prince was there,
until he had been justly judged, save those whom he had previously
sentenced, among whom this Iñigo Lopez was not included. And that it
appeared from this that the king did not intend to fulfil his engagements
towards him, and he presumed that his fidelity on all points would be the
same as in this matter. The king excused himself as best he might, but
neither he nor the prince was well pleased that day. The day after the
battle Don Pedro asked the prince that all the knights and squires of
note, natives of Castile, who were taken prisoners in the battle, should
be delivered to him, and that a reasonable price should be set upon them,
and he would pay it to those who held them prisoners. And that the prince
should be security for such payments to the knights and men-at-arms who
held them prisoners; and the king, Don Pedro, would pledge himself to
the prince for the sum to which they amounted. And the king said that,
if these knights were delivered to him, he would deal and speak with
them in such a way that they should remain on his side; but if their
ransom should be procured by other means, or they should escape from the
imprisonment in which their captors held them, they would always remain
his enemies and be active in his dis-service. Don Pedro insisted strongly
on this point, on Sunday, the day after the battle, which was fought
on the Saturday before Lazarus Sunday, the 3rd of April. The prince of
Wales said to Don Pedro that, saving his royal majesty, his request was
beyond reason, for these lords, knights, and men-at-arms, who were there
in the king’s service and his own, had laboured for honour, and if they
had taken any prisoners they were theirs. And the knights who held them
were of such sort that for all the wealth of the world, though it were
a thousand times the worth of their prisoners, they would never deliver
them to him, for they would think his purpose was to kill them. And he
bade the king urge the point no more, for it was a thing to which he
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