A captured king’s taunts may have goaded Charles into baptizing Aragon’s Muslims.

Evidence

There is some irony here if Francis took the moral high ground in this way, so shortly before cynically and openly breaking his solemn word to Charles by failing to keep the terms whereby he was eventually freed from detention. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 496

Categorization

• QUESTION: Did the conversion campaign actually date from this incident, or is this just Bleda’s pious retelling? Harvey himself flags the story as anecdote.