[622] Arch. Gen. de la C. de A., Reg. 3684, fol. 34.—Boletin, XV, 472.—Bulario de la Orden de Santiago, Lib. I, fol. 43.
Zurita (Añales, XX, xlix) is evidently in error in stating that Ferdinand, May 20, 1483, asked Sixtus to remove Gualbes and Orts.
[623] Arch. Gen. de la C. de A., Reg. 3684, fol. 11.
[624] Ripoll, III, 622.—Bulario de la Orden de Santiago, Lib. I, fol. 182.
When he had no further use for Gualbes Ferdinand also turned against him, for in March, 1486, on hearing that Gualbes proposed to visit a Dominican convent he wrote earnestly to the Governor and Inquisitor of Valencia to prevent it as it would be a scandal.—Arch. Gen. de la C. de A., Reg. 3684, fol. 90.
It is possible that there may have been some rancor on Ferdinand’s part against Gualbes who, as an eloquent preacher and fervid popular orator, had done much, in 1461, to stimulate the resistance of the Catalans to Juan II, after the death of the heir-apparent, Carlos Prince of Viana, which was attributed to poison administered by Queen Juana Henríquez to open for her son Ferdinand the path to the throne (Zurita, Añales, Lib. XVII, cap. xxvi, xlii; Lib. XVIII, cap. xxxii). It is true that Zurita is not certain whether there may not have been two Cristóbal Gualbes (Lib. XX, cap. xlix) but Bofarull y Broca (Hist. de Cataluña, VI, 312) has no such doubts.
[625] Zurita, Añales, Lib. XX, cap. lvi, lxv.
[626] Arch. Gen. de la C. de A., Reg. 3684, fol. 11, 12.—Bulario de la Orden de Santiago, Lib. 1, fol. 51.
[627] Arch. Gen. de la C. de A., Reg. 3684, fol. 19-22.
[628] Ibidem, Reg. 3684, fol. 25, 26.