How to Avoid Blood Spill
- Born 1 June 1283. Carlos I de Anjou and Pedro III de Aragón, after a mutual challenge, made the appointment at that place and on that date. The question of the Sicilian throne would be definitively decided in the Bordeaux challenge.
A few years earlier the Kingdom of Sicily was in the hands of Carlos de Anjou, but on 30 March 1282 the Aragonese attacked the French on the island. The Sicilian Eve is the name of this massacre. Anjou's wanted to deal with the attack, which initially managed to bend the troops of the king of Aragon, but failed in the battle of Mesina and lost, in addition to the crown, 10,000 soldiers.
Then, to prevent this type of blood spills, and supposedly with a gesture of generosity, Karlos I.ak threw the challenge directly to Peter III.ari. Both would face without endangering the troops and the throne of Sicily for the winner – if one of the two had settled and not presented, the other would be considered a winner. Each monarch was going to have several gentlemen by his side; according to some sources, the number of knights would rise to 40, and according to others, to 100. And from now on, sources favorable to each other provide very different information.
Most of the sources agree that the king of Aragon appeared dressed as a servant and silently. But her supporters called it ingenious and speedy resolution, and her detractors put it as cowardice. Some say that Charles I did not move from Naples; others, who was in Bordeaux for 15 May. Although he admitted that Anjou's was there, he asked for help from French King Philip III, who sent 12,000 soldiers to Bordeaux. Therefore, Carlos broke one of the conditions of the mourning and Pedro decided to appear in disguise and hiding because he was above the jalín.
They both said that they had come to the area of mourning, but not at the same time, and that the other had not appeared. Both were considered the other coward and victor and legitimate king of Sicily.
Nevertheless, the issue of Sicily was not resolved in the Bordeaux Challenge. However, they managed to prevent the flow of blood, both from soldiers and kings.
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