 As the island had been conquered militarily, the Muslim population who had not been able to flee the conquering Christians had been enslaved, even though they still constituted a significant portion of the island's population.In 1257 Llull married Blanca Picany, with whom he had two children, Domènec and Magdalena.Although he formed a family, he lived what he would later call the licentious and wasteful life of a troubadour.