This explains why contemporary Muslim sources refer to the event as the city having been "delivered" to the King of Portugal.

[2] The capture of the nearby villages of Albufeira, Porches and a few other small settlements quickly followed still in that same year.

[2] It is likely that King Afonso III himself took part in the campaign against the city, albeit discreetly, as did the Master of the Order of Santiago, lord Paio Peres Correia.

In the event, just as in the conquest of the rest of the Algarve, the absence of members of the main families of Portugal can be observed according to some authors, with those who partook in the capture in Faro being mostly second-borns and bastard children of the nobility, reflecting the importance of military acts for those who could expect little from their inheritance.

[2] Portuguese ownership of the Algarve was disputed by Castille, and it was only recognized when the Treaty of Alcanizes was signed in 1297, with Papal mediation.