Christian authorities executed 140 notable Andalusians to seize their property.

Evidence

When I wished to go to the city of Seville to leave the country of the Muslims, I went to the priest16 and told him: “I am planning to go to my town. My father wrote to me to come to him, and it is obligatory to obey one’s parents.” He answered: “In some matters this is obligatory, but in others it is not.” I said: “I really must go.” So I asked him to support the Andalusians because they were held in contempt among the old Christians. He told me: “You should know that I am at their side, always. They rose up against the Sultan while I was chief judge in the city. Then the brother of the Sultan17 came, and he took 140 men from among the notable Andalusians and killed them. All this to take their properties. But he should have left them alone because they were not among those who revolted. Rich and prosperous people are only well off when tranquility prevails among them, so that they can enjoy their possessions, in contrast to others. But you, Andalusians, follow a discreditable custom!” I asked him: “And what is that?” He said: “You always stick together. You do not give your daughters to the old Christians, and you do not marry women from among the 16. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 1309

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the theme of property-seizure-backed communal violence against religious minorities, echoing patterns from other conquest/expulsion histories.
• QUESTION: The archbishop’s stated grievance — that Andalusians refuse exogamous marriage with old Christians — is striking as the stated reason for their communal contempt; worth chasing how marriage endogamy functioned as a marker of unassimilability.