 Some local knights, including the eldest son (unnamed in the sources) of Count Ponce Giraldo de Cabrera, then governor of Zamora, convened in the church of Santa María to discuss the proper course of action, the rioters locked them in and set the church alight, burning to death all inside.They then razed to the ground the house of the "regidor", and, fearing the reprisals of Count Ponce, they fled "en masse" to the Portuguese border and asked the king, Ferdinand II, through messengers to pardon them and confiscate Ponce's lands ("tenencias").Ferdinand feared that they would abandon Zamora permanently and settle in Portugal, the kingdom of his enemy.