Since truces were considered personal undertakings by the sovereigns that needed to be confirmed at the start of a reign, the succession of a new ruler often created a situation of increased tension along the border.
[2][3] The adelantado of Murcia, Alfonso Yáñez Fajardo, caught up with the raiders at Nogalte [es] (Nogalete) as they were returning to Granada.
Gil González calls this "un mediano número de caballeros" ('a modest number of knights') and says that foot soldiers came from the cities of Murcia and Lorca.
[3] When Muhammad learned of the disaster at Nogalte, he broke off ongoing truce negotiations in Granada with envoys from King John I of Aragon and began to prepare a military response.
[5] The most important event of this phase of localized fighting, which left the truces between the monarchs in place, was the Order of Alcántara's crusade of 1394, born directly out of the debates that followed 1392's raid.