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Reconquista, in medieval Spain and Portugal, a series of campaigns by Christian states to recapture territory from the Muslims ( Moors ), who had occupied most of the Iberian Peninsula in the early 8th century. The Carolingian empire and (inset) divisions after the Treaty of Verdun, 843. Though the beginning of the Reconquista is traditionally ...
- Was The Reconquista a Crusade
Was the Reconquista a crusade? The Reconquista began not as...
- Battle of Covadonga
When Don Pelayo was elected king of Asturias around 718, he...
- Battle of Alarcos
Battle of Alarcos, (July 18, 1195), celebrated Almohad...
- Battle of Las Navas De Tolosa
Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa, (July 16, 1212), major battle...
- Was The Reconquista a Crusade
The Reconquista (Spanish and Portuguese for "reconquest" [a]) or the reconquest of al-Andalus [b] was the successful series of military campaigns that European Christian kingdoms waged against the Muslim kingdoms following the Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula by the Umayyad Caliphate. [4]
- Medieval Iberia
- The Military Orders
- The Second Crusade & Siege of Lisbon
- Christian Victory
- Legacy
The Muslim Moors, based in North Africa, had conquered most of the Iberian peninsula, then controlled by the Visigoths, in the early 8th century CE. By the 11th century CE, the Christian kingdoms of northern Spain were strong enough to attempt to retake some of the lost territories; an ambition greatly helped by the civil wars within the Cordoba Ca...
Alfonso I of Aragon (r. 1104-1134 CE) gave huge estates (in fact most of his kingdom as he had no heir) to the Knights Hospitaller and Knights Templar, both military orders of professional warrior-monks who would make themselves indispensable to the defence of the Crusader States in the Middle East. The lure, although later reduced by Spanish noble...
The Second Crusade (1147-1149 CE) was primarily concerned with recapturing Edessa in Upper Mesopotamia, but it did have additional objectives in Iberia and the Baltic, with both these campaigns also being backed by Pope Eugenius III (r. 1145-1153 CE). The Papacy had already backed crusades to the Iberian peninsula in 1113-14 CE, 1117-18 CE and 1123...
When the idea of liberating the Iberian peninsula received the backing of Pope Innocent III (r. 1198-1216 CE) in 1212 CE, it was a timely boost to the Spanish kings who had suffered a heavy defeat at the Battle of Alarcos in 1195 CE. The Christians in Spain were suffering from a lack of unity, too. King Alfonso IX of Léon (r. 1188-1230 CE) had made...
Few Muslims were converted to Christianity in the reconquered territories of Iberia, and most were permitted to remain and practise their religion as a protected minority, in effect, reversing the status of Muslims and Christians of the past few centuries. Christians were encouraged to migrate southwards, Arab place names were replaced and many mos...
- Mark Cartwright
Feb 9, 2010 · In 1238, the Christian Reconquest forced Spanish Muslims south, and the kingdom of Granada was established as the last refuge of the Moorish civilization. Granada flourished culturally and ...
The Reconquista (a Spanish and Portuguese word for "Reconquest") was a period of 750 years in which several Christian kingdoms slowly expanded themselves over the Iberian Peninsula at the expense of the Muslim Moorish states of Al-Andalus (Arabic الأندلس, al-andalus ). The Muslims invaded Iberia in 722. The last Muslim stronghold ...
Dec 29, 2023 · The Centuries-Long Reconquista Begins. The Battle of Covadonga, in which Christian Asturians led by Visigoth King Pelayo triumphed over the Moors, marked the beginning of the Reconquista, or the “reconquest” of Iberia. But the struggle for Iberia would not come to a quick conclusion. In fact, it would endure for the next eight centuries as ...
1492. 2 January. Muhammad XII, the last emir of Granada, surrenders his city to the army of the Catholic Monarchs after a lengthy siege, ending the ten-year Granada War and the centuries-long Reconquista, and bringing an end to 780 years of Muslim control in Al-Andalus. [513] 6 January.
