Battle of La Higueruela
| date | July 1, 1431 |
|---|---|
| place | Vega de Granada , Andalusia |
| output | Victory of Castile |
| Parties to the conflict | |
|---|---|
| Commander | |
|
Constable Álvaro de Luna |
Emir Muhammad IX. |
| Troop strength | |
| unknown | unknown |
| losses | |
|
unknown |
about 12,000 |
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The battle of La Higueruela (German about "Battle of the Fig Tree") took place on July 1, 1431 in the Vega des Genil near Granada .
Muhammad IX , Emir of Granada from the Nasrid dynasty , had been able to eliminate his greatest rival to the throne with the murder of his predecessor Muhammad VIII , but also made his loyal vizier Ridwân Banûegas a bitter enemy. In May 1431, Ridwân Banûegas visited the Castilian King John II at his court in Cordoba and offered him his support to install a loyal ruler in Granada in Yusuf ibn al-Mawl .
In July 1431, the Castilian army, under the leadership of the Condestable Álvaro de Luna, met the Granada. The battle was a great military success for the Kingdom of Castile . The Emir Yusuf IV, who was subsequently installed as a puppet of Castile, found no support in the emirate of Granada and was only able to stay in power for a few months. The episode is indicative of the inner state of the Nasrid Empire, which suffered from internal power struggles in the 15th century and was thus ultimately doomed.
The battle was captured in numerous frescoes by Fabrizio Castello , Orazio Cambiaso and Lazzaro Tavarone in the Gallery of Battles in the Real Sitio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial .
Remarks
- ↑ The name comes from the fact that, according to tradition, after the devastating battle, a single small fig tree should have remained on the battlefield, cf. http://www.artehistoria.com/v2/contextos/8766.htm . There is no reference to the town of Higueruela in Castile-La Mancha, nor to the municipality of Higuera de Calatrava in the province of Jaén.
- ↑ According to other information: July 14, 1431. Maḥmūd ʿAlī Makkī: The Nasrid Granada. In: Almut von Gladiß (ed.): Treasures of the Alhambra. Skira, Milan 1995, ISBN 88-8118-034-0 , p. 52.
See also
literature
- Ana Echevarria: The Fortress of Faith. The Attitude Towards Muslims in Fifteenth Century Spain (= Medieval Iberian Peninsula 12). Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden et al. 1999, ISBN 90-04-11232-4 (also: Edinburgh, Univ., Diss., 1995).
- Thomas Freller: Granada. Kingdom between Orient and Occident. Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2009, ISBN 978-3-7995-0825-4 .
- Maḥmūd ʿAlī Makkī: The Nasrid Granada. In: Almut von Gladiß (ed.): Treasures of the Alhambra. Islamic art in Andalusia. [Exhibition in the special exhibition halls at the Kulturforum Berlin, October 29, 1995 to March 3, 1996.] Exhibition catalog. Skira, Milan 1995, ISBN 88-8118-034-0 , pp. 39-59.
- Hans-Rudolf Singer : The heirs of the Almohads. In: Ulrich Haarmann : History of the Arab World. Edited by Heinz Halm . 4th revised and expanded edition. CH Beck, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-406-47486-1 , p. 320 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
- Luis Suárez Fernández: Los Reyes Católicos. El tiempo de la Guerra de Granada (= Forjadores de Historia 15). Ediciones Rialp, Madrid 1989, ISBN 84-321-2560-1 .