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Mar 6, 2024 · Reconquest. Date: c. 801 - c. 1492. Location: Iberian Peninsula. Participants: Moor. Portugal. Spain. Major Events: Battle of Alarcos. Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa. Battle of Río Salado. Siege of Toledo. Key People: Alfonso VII. El Cid. Ferdinand II. Isabella I. Top Questions. What was the Reconquista? Who was involved in the Reconquista?
- Was The Reconquista a Crusade
The Hospitaller and Templar knights fought in Spain, and...
- Battle of Covadonga
Covadonga was a small-scale clash between Islamic Moors and...
- 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
Approximately three million Muslims emigrated or were driven out of Spain between 1492 and 1610. Beginning in the 19th century, traditional historiography has used the term Reconquista for what was earlier thought of as a restoration of the Visigothic Kingdom over conquered territories.
- 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
The Reconquista (Reconquest) or Iberian Crusades were military campaigns largely conducted between the 11th and 13th century CE to liberate southern Portuguese and Spanish territories, then known as al-Andalus, from the Muslim Moors who had conquered and held them since the 8th century CE.
- Mark Cartwright
- Publishing Director
Jan 15, 2022 · Reconquista: How the Christian Kingdoms Took Spain from the Moors. The Reconquista, the reconquest of Spain, lasted seven centuries, from the 8th century to the 15th century. During that time the Iberian Peninsula was liberated from Muslim rule. Jan 15, 2022 • By Igor Radulovic, MA History Education, BA Art History.
Dec 29, 2023 · Published December 29, 2023. Updated January 3, 2024. After Muslim armies conquered the Iberian Peninsula in the eighth century, European forces began a campaign to retake the territory, which would ultimately last about 770 years. Wikimedia Commons The Reconquista lasted nearly 800 years.
The reconquest of Spain began in AD 718 when the Christian king Pelagius defeated the Muslim army at the Battle of Covadonga. This victory encouraged successive Christian rulers to launch similar attacks on the Muslim forces in the hope of recapturing all of Spain for the Christian religion.
