A letter arrives from Barcelona, addressed to the Holy Roman Emperor, and to the Princes of the Empire. One copy arrives in the Diet, and the most powerful of the Imperial Princes recieve a copy.
"Unto His Most Holy and Apostolic Majesty, Frederick, Emperor-Elect, King of the Romans, of Germany and of Italy, Elector of the Holy Roman Empire, Archduke of Austria, Count-Palatine of the Rhine, And Prince of Many other Lands Besides, and Unto the Princes of the Holy Roman Empire,
Troubling times are at hand for the Cause of Christ. The Kingdom of Aragon, prostrated by a Usurper that illegally and unlawfully seized power in the Kingdom, interested more in partaking of the harlots of Barcelona than of bathing his sword in the blood of Muselmen. However, those sad and hateful times have finally drawn to a close, and the true heir to the Kingdoms of Aragon, Valencia, and Mallorca, Myself, has been Legally and Lawfully, by the Laws of the Kingdoms, Crowned. Now, I have taken the Cross, and fully intend to begin a new Reconquistada, Reconquest, of the lands seized by the Muselman during the sloth of Constantine the Usurper.
Your Majesty, Princes of the Empire, I remind you of your Christian Duty, to uphold the Cause of Christ and the end the threat of the Mohametan from Christian lands, now, and forevermore. When the Mohametan threated the City of Venice, your Fathers, and quite a few of your Distinguished number took the Cross, and entirely expelled the Turk and Muselman from Europe. King Frederick, Princes of the Empire, the Holy Roman Empire has been, since its birth, known for its glorious wars against the Pagan, against the Infidel, against the Muselman, against all who threaten the Church and the Empire. Shall you sit in your Castles in Germany and Italy, while Christian city after Christian city is overrun?
Yes, the Empire is far from the Kingdom of Aragon. However, King Frederick, Princes of the Empire, consider these words, for I speak nothing but the truth, and am interested only in preserving the Cause of Christ: the Kingdom of Aragon has, ever since the collapse of the Greek Empire, served as the bulwark against the Mohametan in the Mediterrean. Constantinople and all Romania has fallen, swept aside by the Turk. What shall happen if Barcelona and the Kingdom of Aragon will fall? Shall Palermo, and the young and inexperienced King of Sicily, plagued by poverty and strife among peasants and nobility, somehow rally a prostrated Kingdom? Shall the King of Naples, more interested in fantastic claims than in Christ, use his vast resources to hold back the Muselman? The King of Castile, having to deal with the unruly Cortes of his Kingdom?
No, my friends, if the Kingdom of Aragon were to be crushed, noone shall rise to defend Rome itself from the Mohametan. I urge you, the Princes of the Holy Roman Empire, to take up the cross, and journey to Aragon to fight the Mohametan, or at the least, to loan monies to my coffers, so that I may train and equip my own armies and navies to war against these Devils. Fight for the Glory of Christ, or for your own Glory. However, be assured: with the armies and men of the Holy Roman Empire engaged in war against the Mohametan, then how can the armies of Christ be defeated? The Muselmen will tremble and flee, just as their fathers trembled and died at the hands of your fathers, not twenty years past.
And you, King Frederick, Emperor-Elect, Most Fair, Sword of Christ: You are the heir and ruler to the Greatest Empire, even, I dare say, Greater than the Roman Empire of Antiquity, for the Rome of old was pagan and corrupt: you rule over a Christian Empire, uncorrupted by the greed of men or of Satan. Just as the Emperors of Old took the battles to the Mohametan, so I urge you, one King to another, one Christian to another, to do as your predecessors did, not least among them Frederick Barbarossa the Crusader, or Joachim the Powerful, and lead your Empire and it's Princes to Glory personally. For what greater joy can be derived, than joy derived from serving God?
In the Name of God,
Peter, Fifth of the Name, King of Aragon, Valencia, and Mallorca, Duke of Barcelona and Noto, Grandmaster of the Knights of the Lance."