Several bishops and abbots were killed, along with dozens of the best knights in Aragón and most of the army’s leaders. Virtually all the members of Alfonso’s household were captured and his entire infantry bodyguard of seven hundred soldiers was slain. In all his decades of warfare, during which Alfonso had fought battles and sieges from Bayonne to Granada, he had never suffered such a devastating defeat. He slashed and hacked away fiercely on the edge of the battlefield, but the effort was futile, and he was eventually persuaded to escape with a small cadre of knights.
