After that battle, a group of 300 French knights, led by Count Walter V of Brienne and two other barons, arrived in Sicily to avenge their defeated relatives. They named themselves the “Company of Death” and swore for revenge or death. Their hatred was mainly directed against the main leader of the Battle of Falconara, Guillem Galceran de Cartellà, Count of Catanzaro, and Blasco de Alagón el Viejo, the right-hand man of King Fredrick in Sicily.
At the beginning of the year, the castellan of Gagliano informed the Angevins that both Galceran and Blasco were guests in his castle and announced his desire to surrender the castle and its garrison to King Charles.
