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Wanting to learn more about how the Maltese has struggled to collect the gold Florins they followed the knights. They learnt that just before they paid, Monroy died, and they only had to pay King Alfonso 10,000 Florins. But an even more important event had happened: in 1428 King Alfonso issued a royal charter to the Maltese islands, called the Charter of Liberties. “The crown granted the islands the right to resist by force of arms” if Malta would be given away again in the future.
But the Spanish kings did not keep their word, as a century later, in 1530, Emperor Charles V ignored the charter and gave Malta to the Knights of St John.
Marija, Pawlu and Isaac made their way back as they didn’t know what to think. Their own people had saved Malta from a cruel Monroy and got King Alfonso to grant them the Magna Carta Libertatis in 1428, to give the Maltese people the right to rule themselves and protect them from cruel future rulers, yet a century later, Emperor Charles betrayed them! History does not always favour the good, but faith, hope and charity win in the end, as the Maltese had a much better future under the Knights!
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