The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 2

by William Hickling Prescott

FOOTNOTES

[1] Vedmar, Antiguedad y Grandezas de la Ciudad de Velez, (Granada, 1652,) fol. 148.—Mariana, Hist. de España, tom. ii. lib. 27, cap. 10.—Pulgar, Reyes Católicos, part. iii. cap. 70.—Carbajal, Anales, MS., año 1487.— Bleda, Corónica, lib. 5, cap. 14.

[2] Cardonne, Hist. d'Afrique et d'Espagne, tom. iii. pp. 292-294.— Pulgar, Reyes Católicos, ubi supra.—Vedmar, Antiguedad de Velez, fol. 151.

[3] L. Marineo, Cosas Memorables, fol. 175.—Vedmar, Antiguedad.—de Velez, fol. 150, 151.—Marmol, Rebelion de Moriscos, lib. 1, cap. 14.

In commemoration of this event, the city incorporated into its escutcheon the figure of a king on horseback, in the act of piercing a Moor with his javelin. Vedmar, Antiguedad de Velez, fol. 12.

[4] Bernaldez, Reyes Católicos, MS., cap. 52.—Marmol, Rebelion de Moriscos, lib. 1, cap. 14.

[5] Conde doubts whether the name of Malaga is derived from the Greek malakè, signifying "agreeable," or the Arabic malka, meaning "royal." Either etymology is sufficiently pertinent. (See El Nubiense, Descripcion de España, p. 186, not.) For notices of sovereigns who swayed the sceptre of Malaga, see Casiri, Bibliotheca Escurialensis, tom. ii. pp. 41, 56, 99, et alibi.

[6] Conde, Dominacion de los Arabes, tom. iii. p. 237.—Pulgar, Reyes Católicos, cap. 74.—El Nubiense, Descripcion de España, not., p. 144.

[7] Bernaldez, Reyes Católicos, MS., cap. 82.—Vedmar, Antiguedad de Velez, fol. 154.—Pulgar, Reyes Católicos, cap. 74.

[8] This cavalier, who took a conspicuous part both in the military and civil transactions of this reign, was descended from one of the most ancient and honorable houses in Castile. Hyta, (Guerras Civiles de Granada, tom. i. p. 399,) with more effrontery than usual, has imputed to him a chivalrous rencontre with a Saracen, which is recorded of an ancestor, in the ancient Chronicle of Alonso XI.