To Il Papa
Viva Il Papa! Your Eminence, we have considered our affairs of state with great care and are pleased to report that we will join the Kings of Naples, Sweden, Scotland-Norway, Poland, England, France, and all other Christian domains in the holy endeavor of crusade. However we are most disgusted at our wretched cousin for turning his back on the most sacred of duties of the Christian Kings of Iberia and refused the call of Reconquista. Though we are tempted to whet our blade with his cowardly blood, we instead propose this:
1. That the Christian armies gather at our cities as the gateway to crusade, for out of all Christian nations our territory is closest to the territory of the Moors and their last holding of European territory;
2. That the 12,500 Super Florins the King of Castile has offered to pay thus be delivered to the Christian armies gathering in our lands, for there is no risk of open sea and piracy should it be delivered thus;
3. That the King of Castile open his lands to the Crusader armies and provide us supply and quarter as we march to Moorish Granada;
4. That should he fail thus, we be allowed to join all Christian nobles in his lands and reject his kingship;
5. That His Holiness appoint a supreme commander loyal to another King (and of course God) for we know we ask much and thus wish to make clear that we are doing this out of duty, not glory or personal aim.
Your most zealous servant,
The King of Aragon