Published in New Approaches in the Research on the Crown of Aragon

Keywords: Alpujarras, Bandits, Don Antic Sarriera, Moorish.

The War of the Alpujarras was one of the central conflicts of the end of the 1560s for Philip II. The mobilization was massive and urgent in many cases, with the participation of a large part of the Castilian cities and the deployment of contingents that would offer support for the war but would cause severe discipline problems. Catalonia was not alienated from this mobilization. Among the nobles and specific personalities, the bandit soldiers of Antic Sarriera stood out. Both their leader and this contingent, raised in Girona’s counties, with special attention to Empordà, left a documentary trace that will be analysed in this study.