Zafadola

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Aḥmad III Abū Jaʿfar ibn ʿAbd al-Malik al-Mustanṣir
أحمد الثالث أبو جعفر بن عبد الملك المستنصر
Lord of Rueda de Jalón
Reign1130 – 1131
PredecessorAbd al-Malik Imad ad-Dawla
Successor-
Died1146
DynastyHud
ReligionSunni Islam
Ruins of the walls of Rueda de Jalón

Aḥmad III Abū Jaʿfar ibn ʿAbd al-Malik al-Mustanṣir

Hudid dynasty. He ruled the rump of the taifa kingdom of Zaragoza from his castle at Rueda de Jalón, in what is now Spain. He was the son of Abd al-Malik
.

After the city of

Kingdom of Toledo and the task of defending a sector of the southern frontier from the Almoravids.[6]

Sayf al-Dawla took part in battles with the Almoravids in

imperial coronation in León. He was defending the southern border in 1146, when Alfonso VII sent some of his leading knights—Manrique de Lara, Ponce de Cabrera and Armengol de Urgel—to assist him. In a dispute with the Christians, Sayf al-Dawla was killed during the battle of Albacete [es], near Chinchilla de Montearagón.[6][7]

Notes

Footnotes

  1. Chronica Adefonsi imperatoris
    refers to Sayf al-Dawla as rex Zafadola sarracenorum, "king of the Saracens".

Citations

  1. ^ Maíllo Salgado & al-Kardabūs 2008, p. 140 n. 260.
  2. ^ Ubieto Arteta 1961, p. 245.
  3. ^ a b Catlos 2004, p. 75.
  4. ^ Canal Sánchez-Pagín 2003, p. 47.
  5. ^ a b García-Osuna Rodríguez 2012, pp. 143–44.
  6. ^ a b García Fitz 2004, pp. 238–40.
  7. ^ Barton 1997, p. 175.

Sources

  • Barton, Simon (1997). The Aristocracy in Twelfth-Century León and Castile. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought. Cambridge University Press. .
  • Canal Sánchez-Pagín, José María (2003). "El conde Gómez González de Candespina: su historia y su familia". Anuario de Estudios Medievales (in Spanish). 33 (1): 37–68. .
  • Catlos, Brian A. (2004). The Victors and the Vanquished: Christians and Muslims of Catalonia and Aragon, 1050–1300. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought. Cambridge University Press. .
  • García Fitz, Francisco (2004). "¿Una "España musulmana, sometida y tributaria"? la España que no fue" (PDF). Historia. Instituciones. Documentos (in Spanish). 31: 227–48. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-08-29.
  • García-Osuna Rodríguez, José María Manuel (2012). "El rey Alfonso VII "El emperador" de León" (PDF). Anuario Brigantino (in Spanish). 35: 99–160. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 29, 2014.
  • Maíllo Salgado, Felipe; al-Kardabūs, Ibn (2008). Historia de al-Ándalus (in Spanish) (3rd ed.). Madrid: Akal.
  • Ubieto Arteta, Antonio (1961). "La Historia Roderici y su fecha de redacción" (PDF). Saitabi: Revista de la Facultat de Geografia i Història (in Spanish). 11: 241–46. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-09-05.

Further reading

  • Huici Miranda, Ambrosio (1962). "Los Banu Hud de Zaragoza, Alfonso el Batallador y los almoravides (Nuevas aportaciones)". Estudios de Edad Media de la Corona de Aragon (in Spanish). 1: 7–37.


Preceded by Lord of Rueda de Jalón
1130–1131
Succeeded by