While King Pedro was in Seville, he heard news of all these events, and after much thought he agreed with his followers to ask for help from the King of Portugal, his uncle. To give the latter weightier reasons to be moved to grant him this help, he sent word to remind him that he was well aware that a marriage had been arranged between his own daughter, Princess Beatriz, and Prince Fernando, the first-born son of the King of Portugal; therefore he was sending him the princess and all the dowry that had been agreed she would receive at the time of the marriage. Moreover, he declared that Princess Beatriz would inherit the kingdoms of Castile and León. He sent her immediately away from Seville, and with her Martín López de Trujillo, a man in whom he had a great deal of trust, and also a certain quantity of doblas that had been left to the princess by her mother, María de Padilla, along with jewels, seed-pearls and other things.

After Princess Beatriz had left Seville for Portugal, King Pedro had news that King Enrique was heading towards Seville from Toledo. Consequently, he decided to send for the treasure that he kept in the castle of Almodóvar, which was all in gold and silver coins. He ordered a galley to be fitted out and in it he placed this treasure, as well as all the wealth he had in the city. He gave command of the galley to his treasurer Martín Yáñez, ordering him to go to Tavira, a town in Portugal in the kingdom of the Algarve, and to watch over the galley until he arrived there. He also had many pack-mules loaded with all his wealth, and took with him a very great amount of gold and precious stones and pearls, both those he had taken from the Red Emir and his people and much other wealth that he had gathered, along with as much of the silver as he could take along.

When the king was thus prepared to leave Seville, he was told that the citizens were rising up against him and meant to rob him there where he was. Fear-stricken, he left at once for Portugal.