To His Grace, Friedrich IV von Wettin, Margrave of Meissen;
I hold much contempt for you, those who follow you, and for your invasion of Sicily without provocation. I have been told that you have done this because you felt that my choosing an unpopular candidate for marriage would grant you a strong opportunity to raise dissent from the Sicilian nobility. In that belief you were correct. Federico di Gesualdo d'Altavilla was a terrible choice from a diplomatic and political standpoint.
Your request was my hand in marriage. There are several persons who would be preferred to yourself for the role of my spouse:
Crown Prince Juan of Aragon
Duke Louis of Anjou
Ruprecht Klem (The Younger) of Pfalz
All of which have closer familial ties to Sicily and their own respective followings in court.
Those who would seek a Saxon king are very few in number, outside of the traitors whom have already flocked to your banner.
However, the three suitors I mentioned above are all married, so if I were to look only at unmarried suitors, I would probably look for one of the following:
Prince Jean of Cyprus
Prince Ladislaus of Naples
However, both of those two are children and I could not possibly wait a decade in order to marry one of them.
Therefore, I will give you the opportunity to present an offer in person at Siracusa, near the so-called 'front line'. Should you attack the city, I will cancel this opportunity and look elsewhere for a spouse.
I will arrive in Siracusa this coming Monday, and you will be permitted audience on Tuesday, the day I would have been married had you not forced that event to be postponed. You are to keep your armies at bay and you shall not advance any further into my lands, or else I will seek to remove every trace of you and your followers from this island.
This is not your first opportunity to make your case, but your only one.
By her own hand,
Maria I d'Aragon
By the grace of God, Queen of Sicily
