Battle of Montiel (1143)
On 1 March 1143 the Battle of Montiel was fought between
It was a decisive victory for Muño.Early in 1143 Muño set out with a hand-picked troop of 900 knights and 1,000 infantrymen of the local militias to raid the area around
The emirs of Seville and Granada were both killed, as well as several other Almoravid commanders. A large booty that included gold, silver, precious garments, livestock, weapons, and prisoners was taken.[4] After the battle the victorious army returned to Toledo with the infantry carrying the booty.[5] The heads of the two emirs and the other commanders were impaled on spears and marched about the city as trophies.[6] Muño then ordered them hung from the towers, but Empress Berenguela had them taken down and given to some Jewish and Muslim physicians to be anointed with myrrh and aloes and sent to Córdoba, to their widows.[7]
References
- Primary sources
- Enrique Flórez, ed. 1767. "Anales toledanos I". España Sagrada, XXIII. Madrid, 381–400.
- Glenn Edward Lipskey, ed. 1972. The Chronicle of Alfonso the Emperor: A Translation of the Chronica Adefonsi imperatoris. PhD dissertation, Northwestern University.
- Secondary sources
- Simon Barton. 1997. The Aristocracy in Twelfth-Century León and Castile. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- James F. Powers. 1987. A Society Organized for War: The Iberian Municipal Militias in the Central Middle Ages, 1000–1284. Berkeley: University of California Press.
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