On March 31, 1492, the expulsion of the Jews was decreed. Shortly before, an event had occurred that helped create the right environment. On November 16, 1491, in an auto de fe held in Ávila, two Jews and three converts were sentenced to death by the Inquisition and burned alive a little later. H
Collaboration of the teacher of History, Guillermo . In my opinion , these are the four wars that have the dubious honor of being considered the longest in history: – Occupying the fourth position (despite being the one that appears in the Guinness Book of Records) is the Hundred Years War , whic
The Golden Fleece It is the most important decoration of the Spanish monarchy. The Order of the Golden Fleece was created by the Duke of Burgundy and Count of Flanders Philip the Good in 1429 as an attribute of a chivalric order of 24 noblemen chosen for their warrior exploits. The costume of the
I believed, innocent of me, that the Order of the Poor Knights of Christ (Knights Templar or Order of the Temple ) had been dissolved by the Pope Clement V, pressured by Philip IV of France, accusing them of heresy and sodomy. The last grand master, Jacques de Molay, and several knights were tortur
New collaboration from our friend Senovilla . Many times our desire to know strange things or questions from future contests invites us to have to do a diligent search to obtain the desired results. It is not as simple as it seems since once we have found the result we must compare it to make sure
In the year 1134 the king of Aragon, Alfonso I el Batallador dies. . The king had no offspring and his will and succession raised blisters between the nobles and the Church: In the name of the greatest and incomparable good that is God. I Alfonso, King of Aragon, of Pamplona […] thinking of my fat
«In Calatañazor Almanzor lost his drum». According to this popular saying, in Calatañazor (Soria) Muhammad ibn Abu Amir (al-Mansur, for Christians Almanzor) was defeated and killed in this battle. But the reality is that said battle never existed, or if it did exist, it was no more than a small skir
One of the reasons for the rapid expansion of Muslims throughout the Iberian Peninsula was the treaties. As the most important example of these, we have the Treaty of Tudmir (it would include the current Lorca, Murcia, Alicante and Orihuela) signed by Abd al-Aziz (son of Muza) and the Gothic count T
Don Pelayo Asturian king. His origins are uncertain, it is believed that he was the son of a Gothic nobleman named Fávila. During the reign of Witiza he fell out with the Gothic king (the reasons are unknown) and exiled to the North, where the Goths never came to control the area. This is the fir
The Battle of Villalar was not a great battle, but the War of the Comuneros was of great importance as it was the last revolution of the late Middle Ages or the first modern revolution. After the death of Fernando el Católico and the regency of Cardinal Cisneros, Carlos I, grandson of Fernando, a
Abd al-Rahman ibn Mawiya ibn Hisham (ibn means son of) was born in Damascus in 731, the son of Prince Muawiya and a North African Berber concubine. It belongs to the Umayyad family. The Umayyad center of power and seat of the caliphate was Syria, and its court was in Damascus. The dynasty carried
In the year 1079 Alfonso VI sends El Cid to Seville to collect the pariahs (tributes paid by the Taifas to the Christian kingdoms to maintain peace and protect them against possible attacks by other Taifas). When al-Motamid, King of Seville, and El Cid are processing their payment, they receive n
Almanzor (Muhammad ibn Abi Amir) exercised, in practice, absolute power over al-Andalus without being Caliph. He was a very cunning and unscrupulous man, who did not hesitate to eliminate those who helped him, when they were no longer needed or hindered. these are the collateral damage of it: Subh
Omar ben Hafsun He was a muladí nobleman (descendants of Christians converted to Islam) who led a guerrilla war against the emirate of Córdoba. Grandson of a Christian although Muslim by birth, he led a rebellion at the end of the 9th century until his death in 917, which kept the different emirs
In the city of Teruel lived Diego Marcilla and Isabel de Segura . They met when they were very young, he was of poor descent and she belonged to one of the richest families in the town, over the years, friendship turned into love... One day Diego had to go to war, he enlisted as a soldier in the Emp
The Kings Ferdinand and Isabella, by the grace of God, Kings of Castile, Leon, Aragon and other domains of the crown - to Prince John, the Dukes, Marquises, Counts, religious orders and their Masters,... Lords of Castles, Knights and all Jewish men and women of any age and whoever this letter concer
On a visit to Frigiliana (Málaga) we discovered this tribute to the three cultures, represented by the Star of David ( Jewish), the cross (Christian) and the crescent (Muslim). It seems to me a good representation of the society that in our history was able to coexist and enrich itself from the mixt
Although the Catholic Monarchs in 1492 were the ones who, after taking Granada, finished the Reconquest and unified the Christian kingdoms, they were not the first to try. Many had the idea, but only the attempt of Urraca I of Castilla y León and Alfonso I of Aragon and Navarre the Battler » is note
This image shows the summary of Revista Medieval, in its October issue, where the article has been published entitled From Ifriquiya to the Pyrenees about the rapid Muslim expansion throughout the peninsula. I recommend reading this magazine – and our article-.Thank you very much.
Thanks to irreducible we offer you this video of Alaric and the Goths (Audio Passage from the History of Juan Antonio Cebrián).
On October 28, the Italians marched into the Pindos sector with the 3rd Alpinist Division Julia. The Italian Alpinists pushed back the Greek part of the Pindos Detachment and created, within the following days, a very dangerous enclave for the Greek formation. The Greek headquarters reacted by sendi
How many Japanese people come to mind when they hear Hamilcar Barcas name? The name recognition in Japan will be almost zero. Who the hell is he? Lets say it talks a lot. Hamilcar Appears Hamilcar Barca was born in 275 BC in ancient Carthage, what is now Tunisia. Carthage began the war w
The new Aragonese monarch was Juan II (1458-1479), brother of Alfonso V. Juan II had, when he acceded to the Aragonese throne, a long experience. In Castile he had been the head of the group known as the infants of Aragon. In Navarra, thanks to his first marriage to Blanca, he had been king consort
As the phrase absolute power corrupts, too strong power certainly causes corruption. Rome has produced a large number of great princes, but it has also produced tyrants as well. Here are 10 tyrants in the 1000-year history of Rome. 10th place:Domitian It is one of the few emperors who has be