Charles Morris
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He found his knights, his vassals, and all his valiant men, he asked for his sons in law, they were neither of them there.
I defy you for a coward and a traitor as you are.
End of Chapter twelve
Chapter thirteen of Historical Tales Volume seven Spanish by Charles Morris.
This Libervox recording is in the public domain.
Chapter thirteen Las Navas de Tolosa.
On the sixteenth of july twelve twelve was fought the great battle which broke the Moorish power in Spain.
During the two centuries before, fresh streams of invasion had flowed in from Africa to yield new life to the Muslim power.
From time to time in the Mohammedan world reforms have sprung up and been carried far and wide by fanaticism and the sword.
One such body of reformers, the Almora Vides, invaded Spain in the eleventh century and carried all before it.
It was with these that the Cid Campiador had to deal.
A century later a new reformer calling himself Elmandi, appeared in Africa and set going a movement which overflowed the African states and made its way into Spain, where it subdued the Muslim kingdoms and threatened the Christian states.
These invaders were known as the Almohades.
They were pure Moors, and
The Arab movement had lost its strength, and from that time forward the Moslem dominions in Spain were peopled chiefly by Moors.
Spain was threatened now as France had been threatened centuries before, when Charles Martel crushed the Arab hordes on the plains of Tours.
All Christendom felt the danger, and Pope Innocent III preached a crusade for the defence of Spain against the infidel.
In response, thousands of armed crusaders flocked into Spain, coming in corps, in bands, and as individuals, and gathered about Toledo, the capital of Alfonso VIII, King of Castile.
From all the surrounding nations they came and camped in the rich country about the capital, a host which Alfonso had much ado to feed.
Mohammad an Nasir, the emperor of the Almohades, responded to the effort of the Pope by organizing a crusade in Muslim Africa.
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