Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 January 2024
When Sunday, the seventeenth of that month [May] arrived, the king made arrangements to marry the princess again, [this time] in the eyes of Holy Church, with the clergy solemnly carrying out their blessings and offices as had been agreed in the pact, and this is how it took place. In attendance were: Don Pedro, the Archbishop of Seville; Dom Afonso, the Bishop of Guarda; Don Martín, the Bishop of Lisbon; Don Juan, the Bishop of Coimbra; Don Diego, the Bishop of Ávila; Don Juan, the Bishop of Calahorra; Don Alfonso, the Bishop of Coria; and Don Fernando, the Bishop of Badajoz. All of them wore their capes and mitres, held croziers and stood at the door of the cathedral. With these eight bishops, there were many other clerics, decked out in their finest robes. The altar was decorated with fine ornaments and relics, and the whole church looked magnificent, as was fitting.
When all the clergy were assembled, the king, dressed with great splendour and wearing a crown of gold, adorned with precious stones, arrived on a grey horse. Four honourable gentlemen carried aloft a pallium of cloth of gold, supported by four poles, held over the king and his mount. Likewise, the queen came next, on an ornately caparisoned horse, as white as a dove, she too beneath a canopy of cloth of gold stretched above her. She was accompanied on one side by a king who had come from Armenia, Leon V by name, and Dom João, the Master of Avis in Portugal, who was the brother of King Fernando, and on the other by Don Carlos, the Prince of Navarre, who was the King of Castile's brother-in-law, along with another illustrious Castilian nobleman.
As you can imagine, many counts and great lords were gathered there at that time, along with masters [of the Orders], knights and many other noblemen, whose names it is not necessary to mention again. There were also noble ladies, countesses, ladies, damsels and many other people. Then the Archbishop of Seville gave the king and queen his blessing at the door, as they entered the church, and said Mass, with the king and queen both kneeling on an ornately decorated dais.
When the service was over, the king and queen returned by the same route to their lodgings. After they had eaten, jousting, tourneys and bull-fighting took place.
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