WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.839 Hello, in the Crown of Aragon 639 years ago, 00:00:06.339 --> 00:00:13.419 it was February 23rd 1387. My name is Jonathan 00:00:13.419 --> 00:00:17.420 Seyfried. I'm a PhD candidate in history at the 00:00:17.420 --> 00:00:21.379 University of New Mexico and this is the Historian's 00:00:21.379 --> 00:00:25.660 Notebook, a podcast about how history gets made. 00:00:25.839 --> 00:00:30.699 Season 1 is titled Molt Cara Companyona. We're 00:00:30.699 --> 00:00:33.619 looking at a document from each day of the first 00:00:33.619 --> 00:00:38.380 year of the reign of King Joan I of Aragon and 00:00:38.380 --> 00:00:42.740 Queen Violant de Bar. Let's begin today's 00:00:42.740 --> 00:01:10.060 document. There's so much to talk about with 00:01:10.060 --> 00:01:14.540 today's document and I've got a noisy shadow 00:01:14.540 --> 00:01:19.180 cat here with me For today's recording. So we'll 00:01:19.180 --> 00:01:22.340 see how this yep. There she is. We'll see how 00:01:22.340 --> 00:01:31.900 this goes Okay so this document is from the secret 00:01:31.900 --> 00:01:38.519 seal register of Joan and In this document, 00:01:38.859 --> 00:01:45.500 Joan is writing another safe conduct message. 00:01:46.019 --> 00:01:49.780 So we saw this for a minstrel a few episodes 00:01:49.780 --> 00:01:54.340 back. I think we, oh yeah, we also saw it in 00:01:54.340 --> 00:02:00.290 the pair of episodes where the outgoing copy 00:02:00.290 --> 00:02:02.569 had actually come back to the Crown of Aragon 00:02:02.569 --> 00:02:06.189 and it had that red wax seal on it. So I'm going 00:02:06.189 --> 00:02:10.729 to link to both of those episodes in the web 00:02:10.729 --> 00:02:16.990 page for today's. Now, there's a very revealing 00:02:16.990 --> 00:02:21.889 AI usage lesson with today's document. It was 00:02:21.889 --> 00:02:25.710 just yesterday that I was singing the praises 00:02:25.710 --> 00:02:29.780 of Gemini, but then I think it was yesterday's 00:02:29.780 --> 00:02:34.240 episode when I also said that in the fall Gemini 00:02:34.240 --> 00:02:38.060 had been dramatic with some of its hallucinations 00:02:38.060 --> 00:02:44.800 and I thought that that was done but in the transcript 00:02:44.800 --> 00:02:50.870 of my Gemini chat conversation You will be able 00:02:50.870 --> 00:02:55.289 to see how in certain moments with the paleography 00:02:55.289 --> 00:02:59.009 Gemini was trying to tell me that I was wrong 00:02:59.009 --> 00:03:03.069 and it was sounding really persistent and I Did 00:03:03.069 --> 00:03:05.169 some extra research because I was like, well, 00:03:05.330 --> 00:03:08.530 maybe I was kind of like doubting myself But 00:03:08.530 --> 00:03:11.330 then as I was working on it, I was like no this 00:03:11.330 --> 00:03:14.389 there's just no way that Gemini can be right 00:03:14.389 --> 00:03:20.120 about this And so before I get into the source 00:03:20.120 --> 00:03:23.819 information and the content more deeply with 00:03:23.819 --> 00:03:27.479 this particular document, I'm going to point 00:03:27.479 --> 00:03:33.840 out the AI usage issue. And goodness, this is 00:03:33.840 --> 00:03:36.949 one of those days when I feel like this episode 00:03:36.949 --> 00:03:40.610 could be 90 minutes because there's so much juicy 00:03:40.610 --> 00:03:44.789 stuff being referred to in the document itself, 00:03:44.789 --> 00:03:50.409 and then also in regards to the person who's 00:03:50.409 --> 00:03:54.629 receiving this safe conduct letter. All right, 00:03:55.050 --> 00:03:59.129 but we'll have to just be concise. And first, 00:03:59.389 --> 00:04:02.699 the paleographical issue. You'll notice that 00:04:02.699 --> 00:04:08.340 in the second line of the second folio of this 00:04:08.340 --> 00:04:12.599 document so one kind of an annoying and confusing 00:04:12.599 --> 00:04:15.439 thing is that the scribes decided that they needed 00:04:15.439 --> 00:04:19.839 to put two lines of this document on the bottom 00:04:19.839 --> 00:04:27.529 of folio 15 R and then continue with the bulk 00:04:27.529 --> 00:04:32.209 of the document on folio 15v. I had had this 00:04:32.209 --> 00:04:35.410 theory earlier in the podcast that the scribes 00:04:35.410 --> 00:04:38.790 were intentional about trying to fit things on 00:04:38.790 --> 00:04:43.810 the amount of space on the page, and so it's 00:04:43.810 --> 00:04:50.109 a bit of a mystery to me why it would be so important 00:04:50.109 --> 00:04:53.730 to save that amount of paper but maybe they were 00:04:53.730 --> 00:04:56.050 just like hey if you can fit two lines on there 00:04:56.050 --> 00:04:59.970 fit two lines on there if you don't have a shorter 00:04:59.970 --> 00:05:02.470 letter to squeeze into that little bit then you're 00:05:02.470 --> 00:05:04.730 just gonna have to go on to the next page it's 00:05:04.730 --> 00:05:08.230 a really yeah I guess it kind of fits with my 00:05:08.230 --> 00:05:10.370 theory that they were always trying to conserve 00:05:10.370 --> 00:05:13.990 the paper but at the same time it's like why 00:05:13.990 --> 00:05:16.699 do you need to start a document with those just 00:05:16.699 --> 00:05:20.160 those two lines on the bottom of one page i guess 00:05:20.160 --> 00:05:23.040 it's you know conservation of paper obviously 00:05:23.040 --> 00:05:27.360 but i mean it's just an interesting severity 00:05:27.360 --> 00:05:30.720 in that ethos of the conservation of the paper 00:05:31.689 --> 00:05:35.649 to have just two lines on the previous folio. 00:05:35.889 --> 00:05:39.490 So really what we're paying attention to is folio 00:05:39.490 --> 00:05:44.329 15v because the information in those two lines 00:05:44.329 --> 00:05:49.370 at the bottom of the previous folio are just 00:05:49.370 --> 00:05:55.110 the usual introductory stuff from Joan. You 00:05:55.110 --> 00:05:57.730 know, this is Joan the king of all these realms 00:05:57.730 --> 00:06:00.509 and this document goes out to everybody who might 00:06:00.509 --> 00:06:04.769 see it. It's pretty boilerplate where it gets 00:06:04.769 --> 00:06:10.589 interesting is in the second line of folio 15 00:06:10.589 --> 00:06:16.610 v where about one two three four five words in 00:06:16.610 --> 00:06:23.009 we see a very clear name isabel isabel spelled 00:06:23.310 --> 00:06:26.910 with a Y at the beginning, which was actually 00:06:26.910 --> 00:06:30.589 quite common. In a lot of the Chancery documents, 00:06:31.490 --> 00:06:34.790 even about 100 years later, about the famous 00:06:34.790 --> 00:06:40.970 Isabella of Castile married to Ferdinand of Aragon 00:06:40.970 --> 00:06:45.930 and sponsor of Christopher Columbus, Isabel is 00:06:45.930 --> 00:06:49.790 often spelled with a Y. at the beginning instead 00:06:49.790 --> 00:06:53.009 of how it is now commonly rendered with the letter 00:06:53.009 --> 00:06:59.089 i so okay we have isabelis so the ending on that 00:06:59.089 --> 00:07:05.050 is a well i want to say it's a nominative but 00:07:05.050 --> 00:07:08.350 if you have an is at the end i don't think it 00:07:08.350 --> 00:07:13.069 would be so there's something about maybe it's 00:07:13.069 --> 00:07:16.389 in dative here I'm not going to go too deeply 00:07:16.389 --> 00:07:18.370 into the Latin grammar today because we've got 00:07:18.370 --> 00:07:21.209 a lot of other stuff to do. Let's just register 00:07:21.209 --> 00:07:23.970 the fact that I'm not sure on site at this point 00:07:23.970 --> 00:07:27.410 because I'm not as well practiced in Latin as 00:07:27.410 --> 00:07:30.910 others. All right, then we have day, so it's 00:07:30.910 --> 00:07:35.189 Isabella of. Then what it looks like to me is 00:07:35.189 --> 00:07:43.240 the letter M and then A I O R I C. and then there's 00:07:43.240 --> 00:07:47.139 a macron over, so I read this as Majoricem, 00:07:48.720 --> 00:07:53.459 it's Isabella of Majorca. I had not heard of 00:07:53.459 --> 00:07:58.959 Isabella of Majorca, and I think that has a lot 00:07:58.959 --> 00:08:03.220 to do with the fact that I start my focus when 00:08:03.220 --> 00:08:09.319 Joann's rain begins and in the 1380s when he 00:08:09.319 --> 00:08:12.300 is together with Violant and I don't really 00:08:12.300 --> 00:08:18.040 read too much before 1380. So that explains why 00:08:18.040 --> 00:08:23.800 I don't really know about Isabel of Mallorca 00:08:23.800 --> 00:08:29.129 when if I had been reading a lot about I guess 00:08:29.129 --> 00:08:33.190 you could say the early half of Pere the Ceremonious 00:08:33.190 --> 00:08:36.169 is reign I would definitely know about Isabella 00:08:36.169 --> 00:08:38.509 of Mallorca and I'll tell you why a little bit 00:08:38.509 --> 00:08:41.009 later but we're on the paleography piece now 00:08:41.009 --> 00:08:47.379 so I read that as an M and Gemini read that as 00:08:47.379 --> 00:08:53.120 an AR and that really surprised me and I pushed 00:08:53.120 --> 00:08:56.700 back and I said Gemini I just don't think that's 00:08:56.700 --> 00:09:01.120 an AR and it pushed back on me and said no you're 00:09:01.120 --> 00:09:05.139 making a mistake it actually called it a quote 00:09:05.139 --> 00:09:10.139 classic paleographical mistake. That I was making 00:09:10.139 --> 00:09:15.559 a classic paleographical misread when I insisted 00:09:15.559 --> 00:09:20.659 that that was the letter M and not an AR. And 00:09:20.659 --> 00:09:24.639 then it proceeded to use other examples in the 00:09:24.639 --> 00:09:27.860 document to try to convince me. And I said, wait 00:09:27.860 --> 00:09:32.299 a second, Gemini, look at your own transcription 00:09:32.299 --> 00:09:38.480 of the very last line that dating clause where 00:09:38.480 --> 00:09:46.080 there's the word for 1000, right? I think it's 00:09:46.080 --> 00:09:50.580 millisimo or millenio. Yeah, I mean, oh my gosh, 00:09:50.700 --> 00:09:55.220 my Latin. And it transcribed it as an M and that 00:09:55.220 --> 00:10:00.190 M looks the same as the M. that's in this second 00:10:00.190 --> 00:10:05.649 line just a slight tiny difference and eventually 00:10:05.649 --> 00:10:11.490 Gemini relented and then was able to clarify 00:10:11.490 --> 00:10:14.049 some information about who this person is but 00:10:14.049 --> 00:10:17.919 it really wanted me to believe that it was Isabella 00:10:17.919 --> 00:10:22.200 of Armagnac. There was an Isabella of Armagnac, 00:10:22.440 --> 00:10:26.019 but it's very easy on Wikipedia and just general 00:10:26.019 --> 00:10:29.539 Google searching to see that Isabella of Armagnac 00:10:29.539 --> 00:10:33.480 was not alive. She had died in I think it was 00:10:33.480 --> 00:10:37.559 like 1375, and so there's no way that she would 00:10:37.559 --> 00:10:43.200 need a safe conduct letter in 1387, you know, 00:10:43.379 --> 00:10:47.559 12 years after her death. So either Joan was 00:10:47.559 --> 00:10:53.019 writing for some kind of zombie Isabella, or 00:10:53.019 --> 00:10:58.399 maybe vampire, or Gemini was completely wrong. 00:10:58.580 --> 00:11:02.580 So I went over to chat GPT and was like, I don't 00:11:02.580 --> 00:11:05.519 think there's an Isabella of Armagnac and chat 00:11:05.519 --> 00:11:08.659 GPT had trouble with this. Like, why are you 00:11:08.659 --> 00:11:10.980 chat bots having so much trouble when you it's 00:11:10.980 --> 00:11:14.990 just so it's so clear even from Wikipedia that 00:11:14.990 --> 00:11:21.470 this person is not alive. And I asked about Isabella 00:11:21.470 --> 00:11:24.990 of Majorca, and ChatGPT had trouble with that, 00:11:25.370 --> 00:11:28.169 and Gemini initially had trouble with that, and 00:11:28.169 --> 00:11:32.250 I just was looking just on Wikipedia, and I found 00:11:32.250 --> 00:11:36.190 the Isabella of Majorca without all that much 00:11:36.190 --> 00:11:40.480 trouble. So this was a moment that is a really 00:11:40.480 --> 00:11:45.259 good demonstration of the problems with the AI 00:11:45.259 --> 00:11:49.840 chatbots at this time. That while Gemini did 00:11:49.840 --> 00:11:54.519 another fantastic job with transcribing the gothic 00:11:54.519 --> 00:11:57.820 secretarial hand, I mean its mistake with the 00:11:57.820 --> 00:12:01.879 letter M was really glaring, but I really shouldn't 00:12:01.879 --> 00:12:08.090 allow that to take over again saying that you 00:12:08.090 --> 00:12:10.509 know, basically it did great with most of the 00:12:10.509 --> 00:12:13.009 other words. I mean, even with abbreviations 00:12:13.009 --> 00:12:17.289 and things crossed out and so, you know, you 00:12:17.289 --> 00:12:21.970 just have to watch out for the glaring errors 00:12:21.970 --> 00:12:27.070 and don't let its authoritative tone push you 00:12:27.070 --> 00:12:30.889 around, right? Maybe we won't have this problem 00:12:30.889 --> 00:12:35.230 in the future, chatbots, but for now... we have 00:12:35.230 --> 00:12:40.049 this problem. And so, again, you cannot just 00:12:40.049 --> 00:12:42.730 turn over everything to the chatbots and whenever 00:12:42.730 --> 00:12:46.509 you're taking away some kind of conclusion based 00:12:46.509 --> 00:12:49.269 on what the chatbot gives you, it's got to be 00:12:49.269 --> 00:12:53.970 treated as a provisional conclusion unless you 00:12:53.970 --> 00:12:58.769 do some additional research to confirm it. Alright, 00:12:59.169 --> 00:13:04.440 let's go to the sourcing of this letter. So one 00:13:04.440 --> 00:13:07.720 of the really important things about this letter 00:13:07.720 --> 00:13:11.460 is that it's from Joan and not Père the Ceremonious. 00:13:11.940 --> 00:13:14.779 Père the Ceremonious held grudges and he was 00:13:14.779 --> 00:13:18.980 no fan of Isabella of Mallorca. Why? Because 00:13:18.980 --> 00:13:23.129 he was responsible for her father's death, and 00:13:23.129 --> 00:13:26.649 they don't get along. Her father was James III 00:13:26.649 --> 00:13:30.169 of Majorca, who rebelled against Pere the Ceremonious, 00:13:30.649 --> 00:13:34.230 wanting to keep Majorca as an independent kingdom 00:13:34.230 --> 00:13:39.149 and not as a part of the Crown of Aragon. Pere 00:13:39.149 --> 00:13:44.389 the Ceremonious defeated Isabella's father, and 00:13:44.389 --> 00:13:48.970 he died on the battlefield, right? And then she 00:13:49.159 --> 00:13:52.700 was actually captured and she was imprisoned 00:13:52.700 --> 00:13:58.080 for her teenage years in Valencia and she was 00:13:58.080 --> 00:14:03.580 only freed at the age of about 20 when she agreed 00:14:03.580 --> 00:14:09.120 to renounce her claim to any rule over Mallorca. 00:14:09.419 --> 00:14:15.179 So at that point in 1358 she was let out of jail 00:14:15.179 --> 00:14:19.659 and then she got married and She just kind of 00:14:19.659 --> 00:14:22.159 bopped around like doing a bunch of different 00:14:22.159 --> 00:14:26.360 diplomatic things along with her husband But 00:14:26.360 --> 00:14:31.159 the real story in terms of conflict Conflict 00:14:31.159 --> 00:14:33.659 with Pere the ceremonious and crown of Aragon 00:14:33.659 --> 00:14:37.480 is with her brother So when her brother got old 00:14:37.480 --> 00:14:43.139 enough he James the fourth tried to once again 00:14:43.419 --> 00:14:47.720 fight for the independence of the island of Mallorca 00:14:47.720 --> 00:14:52.740 and he actually led an invasion of Roussillon 00:14:52.740 --> 00:14:57.759 which is the province that's today in the southwest 00:14:57.759 --> 00:15:02.159 of France so sort of like around Montpellier 00:15:02.159 --> 00:15:07.700 so and Perpignan to be more exact i think so 00:15:07.700 --> 00:15:13.860 James the fourth he tried to get Majorca back 00:15:13.860 --> 00:15:20.320 for their family, and he also did not succeed. 00:15:20.980 --> 00:15:27.000 He ended up dying, some say, in Isabella's arms. 00:15:27.240 --> 00:15:29.840 I think as the result of the strain of war, I 00:15:29.840 --> 00:15:32.659 don't think it was a battle injury, but I think 00:15:32.659 --> 00:15:36.600 because of what he was doing, somehow Yeah, maybe 00:15:36.600 --> 00:15:38.639 it was a battle injury or some kind of illness 00:15:38.639 --> 00:15:40.799 that he contracted when he was fighting I can't 00:15:40.799 --> 00:15:43.899 remember exactly but anyway drama he died in 00:15:43.899 --> 00:15:49.419 her arms now Now James IV of Majorca had was 00:15:49.419 --> 00:15:53.639 involved in some other drama in the time period 00:15:53.639 --> 00:16:01.120 of like the 1370s early 1370s because he married 00:16:01.360 --> 00:16:06.080 Joanna of Naples who was a really fascinating 00:16:06.080 --> 00:16:11.159 powerful woman of the mid 14th century and one 00:16:11.159 --> 00:16:14.120 of the conditions of the marriage was that James 00:16:14.120 --> 00:16:17.299 the fourth would have no governance over Naples 00:16:17.299 --> 00:16:21.899 and the crown of Aragon also had a claim to Naples 00:16:21.899 --> 00:16:25.799 that Joanna was fighting off but not it was as 00:16:25.799 --> 00:16:28.620 much of a threat as from other places like weirdly 00:16:28.620 --> 00:16:34.000 Hungary had a claim to rule over Naples so that 00:16:34.000 --> 00:16:36.940 was just oh it's so convoluted but it's a great 00:16:36.940 --> 00:16:42.440 story so if you can read that book by Elizabeth 00:16:42.440 --> 00:16:46.559 Casteen titled From She -Wolf to Martyr about 00:16:46.559 --> 00:16:49.100 Joanna the First of Naples you will not be disappointed 00:16:49.100 --> 00:16:52.620 it's such a really interesting story of intrigue 00:16:52.620 --> 00:16:59.809 and power and a medieval woman who was just a 00:16:59.809 --> 00:17:03.649 fascinating test case for how far you can push 00:17:03.649 --> 00:17:09.170 it for a woman to rule in this time period on 00:17:09.170 --> 00:17:12.390 her own, like in defiance of a lot of the men. 00:17:12.559 --> 00:17:15.500 around. So that's super interesting. And then 00:17:15.500 --> 00:17:18.259 Joanna of Naples spent a lot of time in Avignon 00:17:18.259 --> 00:17:23.400 and was trying to curry the favor of Pope Clement 00:17:23.400 --> 00:17:27.480 VII in Avignon. Oh gosh, I hope I got that number 00:17:27.480 --> 00:17:29.140 right because I'm like, is it the sixth? No, 00:17:29.140 --> 00:17:32.279 it's the seventh. So when Violant is writing 00:17:32.279 --> 00:17:37.660 to the Pope in Avignon, she's maybe continuing 00:17:37.660 --> 00:17:43.779 a kind of pattern. that Joanna had set up where 00:17:43.779 --> 00:17:46.680 basically there's a lot of activity from the 00:17:46.680 --> 00:17:50.400 queens in conversation with the pope. I don't 00:17:50.400 --> 00:17:52.720 know, that might be a bit of a stretch in terms 00:17:52.720 --> 00:17:58.400 of the context. So all right, Isabella of Majorca 00:17:58.400 --> 00:18:01.740 was not a friend of Pere the Ceremonious. He 00:18:01.740 --> 00:18:06.359 probably didn't care if she just kind of, you 00:18:06.359 --> 00:18:10.009 know, did stuff. elsewhere and didn't want to 00:18:10.009 --> 00:18:13.130 deal with her. But then Joan takes over and 00:18:13.130 --> 00:18:15.890 he's more friendly and you can tell in this he's 00:18:15.890 --> 00:18:19.130 writing this safe conduct letter which seems 00:18:19.130 --> 00:18:22.589 you know kind of generous and and why is it generous? 00:18:23.329 --> 00:18:29.170 It's generous because he's saying that no one 00:18:29.170 --> 00:18:36.299 can collect on her debts basically. So He specifies 00:18:36.299 --> 00:18:41.240 that she's got this big retinue, and we'll talk 00:18:41.240 --> 00:18:43.839 about the size of that retinue in just a moment. 00:18:44.440 --> 00:18:49.400 But he says that no one is allowed to take anything 00:18:49.400 --> 00:18:53.460 from her. I know, no one. And all of her creditors, 00:18:53.559 --> 00:18:56.940 like Shadow is playing the creditors, being mad. 00:18:57.339 --> 00:19:01.380 Why? Because she owed a ton of money. So by this 00:19:01.380 --> 00:19:07.539 time... Isabella of Mallorca was like really 00:19:07.539 --> 00:19:11.420 broke and like trying to get money from all which 00:19:11.420 --> 00:19:16.559 way places and she was being chased by her creditors 00:19:16.559 --> 00:19:19.779 actually so this safe conduct note is very nice 00:19:19.779 --> 00:19:22.200 to her because it basically makes it so that 00:19:22.200 --> 00:19:25.480 if her creditors find her They're not allowed 00:19:25.480 --> 00:19:28.940 to collect from her while she's traveling around 00:19:28.940 --> 00:19:34.920 in the lands ruled by Joan. So with the context 00:19:34.920 --> 00:19:39.460 in mind, we can see that Joan was being actually 00:19:39.460 --> 00:19:44.400 very nice to Isabella of Majorca. Not quite sure 00:19:44.400 --> 00:19:46.180 why. That's one of the questions I have. Like, 00:19:46.180 --> 00:19:50.640 why was Joan so much more friendly? You don't 00:19:50.640 --> 00:19:54.420 have to be. I mean, what was to be gained? Maybe 00:19:54.420 --> 00:19:57.279 it was just like anything his father did, he 00:19:57.279 --> 00:19:59.200 just kind of wanted to go the other direction. 00:19:59.500 --> 00:20:05.799 I don't know. Let's talk about the retinue. So 00:20:05.799 --> 00:20:10.180 in the, let's see, one, two, three, four, five, 00:20:10.180 --> 00:20:15.480 six, seven, eight. Seventh line of folio 15V, 00:20:15.640 --> 00:20:18.960 we can see it's crossed out. There was this, 00:20:19.420 --> 00:20:22.819 in the end. after the cross out the equitum, 00:20:23.019 --> 00:20:30.420 so horses, okay? So the retinue had 60 horses, 00:20:30.940 --> 00:20:34.940 sexaginta, and then they crossed it out and then 00:20:34.940 --> 00:20:37.619 above it they wrote centum, a hundred, and then 00:20:37.619 --> 00:20:41.619 they crossed that out and went back to 60. What 00:20:41.619 --> 00:20:45.940 is going on here? How is this happening that 00:20:45.940 --> 00:20:48.359 there's this back and forth about the number 00:20:48.359 --> 00:20:53.140 of horses in Isabella of Majorca's retinue? Are 00:20:53.140 --> 00:20:56.420 they getting updates about the information? Who 00:20:56.420 --> 00:20:59.759 is making the correction? Why is someone noticing, 00:20:59.880 --> 00:21:04.569 oh, it's not 60, it's 100? Why does it really 00:21:04.569 --> 00:21:07.809 matter how many there are I mean it does because 00:21:07.809 --> 00:21:11.069 if you show up with a with a hundred and you're 00:21:11.069 --> 00:21:14.109 only protected for 60 the people trying to collect 00:21:14.109 --> 00:21:16.190 and you'll be like well, you're over what it 00:21:16.190 --> 00:21:19.930 says in your document and so We're gonna take 00:21:19.930 --> 00:21:23.509 your extra 40 horses and the horses might represent 00:21:23.509 --> 00:21:26.329 Actually people and parts of the revenue and 00:21:26.329 --> 00:21:29.430 the treasure they have on them. So there's there 00:21:29.430 --> 00:21:34.630 is a lot to unpack with just that question of 00:21:34.630 --> 00:21:38.410 why there was a correction that needed to be 00:21:38.410 --> 00:21:41.809 made and before we wrap up this episode there's 00:21:41.809 --> 00:21:44.789 one more thing we need to talk about there is 00:21:44.789 --> 00:21:48.869 a little note that was added to the bottom of 00:21:48.869 --> 00:21:55.210 this one a little while later and it's a case 00:21:55.210 --> 00:21:59.690 where in this situation I've been trashing Gemini 00:21:59.980 --> 00:22:04.420 quite a lot but here Gemini really came through 00:22:04.420 --> 00:22:08.839 and it's again with the letter M so it's so funny 00:22:08.839 --> 00:22:12.440 because I was correctly recognizing the letter 00:22:12.440 --> 00:22:16.119 M and Gemini was getting it wrong in the document 00:22:16.119 --> 00:22:20.779 itself but this little added note below the document 00:22:20.779 --> 00:22:27.839 I oh my gosh the scribe just really I really 00:22:27.839 --> 00:22:31.799 just did a number on the letter M. Alright, so 00:22:31.799 --> 00:22:35.220 the second line of that little note that's been 00:22:35.220 --> 00:22:40.359 added on, you might be able to identify, well, 00:22:40.980 --> 00:22:43.740 what looks like the third word from the end. 00:22:44.559 --> 00:22:50.740 And that has an A -D -I. You could maybe argue 00:22:50.740 --> 00:22:54.180 that that's like a Y, but it's an I. A -D -I. 00:22:54.619 --> 00:22:58.500 So, odd -y. And then before that, that, folks, 00:22:58.680 --> 00:23:02.220 is the letter M. I know, Shadow, it's distressing 00:23:02.220 --> 00:23:06.039 because it doesn't look like an M at all. But 00:23:06.039 --> 00:23:09.039 what happened there was the scribe, and it's 00:23:09.039 --> 00:23:13.500 maybe the same scribe because we have Idem as 00:23:13.500 --> 00:23:18.319 the probata, but later on that scribe came back 00:23:18.319 --> 00:23:23.079 or another scribe came in and wrote this note 00:23:23.079 --> 00:23:27.940 saying something about May, I know. Shadow has 00:23:27.940 --> 00:23:31.319 a lot to say about this. Well, it's an extension. 00:23:32.380 --> 00:23:36.299 So what happened was that this original document 00:23:36.299 --> 00:23:40.279 said the safe conduct for Isabella of Majorca 00:23:40.279 --> 00:23:45.880 goes until the end of April. And she needed more 00:23:45.880 --> 00:23:50.119 time and she was granted it. And so they gave 00:23:50.119 --> 00:23:54.279 her an extension. through the end of May to have 00:23:54.279 --> 00:23:58.460 safe conduct through all of the realms. I know 00:23:58.460 --> 00:24:01.660 Shadow's really excited that Isabella of Mallorca 00:24:01.660 --> 00:24:04.900 got an extension. She just can't stop talking 00:24:04.900 --> 00:24:13.420 about it. I know! Shadow! She's really just over 00:24:13.420 --> 00:24:15.960 the top. I mean, I don't know what connection 00:24:15.960 --> 00:24:20.680 you have to or you have to Isabella of Mallorca, 00:24:20.880 --> 00:24:24.940 Shadow, but maybe Isabella of Mallorca was in 00:24:24.940 --> 00:24:27.579 some kind of a jam and she really needed that 00:24:27.579 --> 00:24:31.000 extra time and she got that extension and it 00:24:31.000 --> 00:24:33.960 made a big difference and now she's reincarnated 00:24:33.960 --> 00:24:37.039 as Shadow and that's why Shadow's making a lot 00:24:37.039 --> 00:24:42.390 of noise right now. Just one theory. Alright, 00:24:43.349 --> 00:24:46.089 thanks for listening to this episode of the Historian's 00:24:46.089 --> 00:24:50.470 Notebook, Season 1, Molt Cara Companyona. If 00:24:50.470 --> 00:24:52.430 you are leaving with more questions than you 00:24:52.430 --> 00:24:54.890 arrived with, like, why did Isabella need to 00:24:54.890 --> 00:24:57.230 journey around in the Crown of Aragon anyway? 00:24:57.390 --> 00:25:01.390 I don't know. Well, if you have questions like 00:25:01.390 --> 00:25:04.730 that, I've done my job. Because remember, the 00:25:04.730 --> 00:25:08.829 motto of the Historian's Notebook is, dissatisfaction 00:25:08.829 --> 00:25:12.130 guaranteed. Visit the website to see an image 00:25:12.130 --> 00:25:15.029 of today's document and additional show notes, 00:25:15.710 --> 00:25:19.450 including links to the Wikipedia pages for Isabella 00:25:19.450 --> 00:25:24.390 of Mallorca and her brother James IV. And listen 00:25:24.390 --> 00:25:27.849 again tomorrow to hear about the next day in 00:25:27.849 --> 00:25:31.789 the first year of the reign of King Joan of Aragon 00:25:31.789 --> 00:25:36.750 and Queen Violant de Bar. 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