Reconquista

September 7: Richard the Lionheart defeats Saladin at Arsuf – Video

September 5, 2013

In Forming the Holy League, St. Pius V Prepares for Victory at Lepanto

August 26, 2013

Don Pelayo starts the Reconquista with the battle of Covadonga

August 12, 2013

Young Don Juan fans the flame of Spanish chivalry

July 8, 2013

“A people without a king is not to be feared” – a Muslim general

July 4, 2013

The magnificent splendor of Isabella the Catholic’s dress and jewels

June 27, 2013

Queen Isabel the Catholic pawns her crown jewels to keep up the siege of Baeza

June 20, 2013

Ferdinand the Catholic conquers the impregnable Ronda from the Moslems

June 10, 2013

Muley Abul Hacen refuses tribute to the Catholic Kings Ferdinand and Isabel

June 3, 2013

May 30 – Most Valiant King

May 30, 2013

Isabella the Catholic confronts a riotous mob and restores order to Segovia

May 27, 2013

Isabella the Catholic: Spain’s Joan of Arc

May 20, 2013

The Last Battle of the Valiant Don Alonso de Aguilar

May 9, 2013

9-year-old Crown Prince Alfonso’s first battle against the Moors

April 29, 2013

Moslem Seville surrenders to Saint Ferdinand

April 18, 2013

The “Great Captain” Gonsalvo de Cordoba: an unmatched leader

April 11, 2013

Ferdinand the Catholic exposes himself to defend his men

April 8, 2013

Queen Isabel tames her quarrelsome nobles

April 1, 2013

Nine Hundred Years of Chivalry for the Knights of Malta

February 14, 2013

February 8 – Saint John of Matha, a strong and mighty Angel

February 7, 2013

Henry the Navigator Inaugurates the Age of Discovery

November 12, 2012

November 13 – Grand Master of the Order of Christ

November 12, 2012

Isabella the Catholic: majestic and saintly even in death

October 18, 2012

Pedro de Vargas, Alcayde of Gibraltar, Attacks Muley Abul Hassan, King of Granada

October 8, 2012

September 24 – Our Lady of Mercy

September 24, 2012

Muley Abul Hassan is foiled in his attempt to recapture Alhama

September 6, 2012

Muley Abul Hassan, king of Granada, attacks the Christian stronghold of Zahara, slaying and reducing its inhabitants to captivity and slavery

August 23, 2012

Isabella the Catholic offers her jewels to fund Columbus’ discovery of America

August 2, 2012

King Ferdinand and the nobility of Andalucia rush to the aid of Don Roderigo Ponce de Leon in Alhama

July 26, 2012

May 30 – Most Valiant

May 28, 2012

The death of Saint Ferdinand III, the very noble King of Castile and Leon

May 28, 2012

The Catholic Kings’ demand for payment of tribute arrears is rebuffed by Muley Abul Hassan, King of Granada

April 16, 2012

Gonzalo de Cordoba storms Huejar to put down a Moorish insurrection

March 29, 2012

The Great Captain: Gonzalo Hernandez de Cordova

March 15, 2012

Muley Abul Hassan’s last desperate effort to recapture Alhama, and the lifting of its siege by the Duke of Medina Sidonia

March 5, 2012

King Ferdinand lifts the siege of Loja—in the retreat, Don Juan de Ribera twice saves the king

February 23, 2012

The “Ave Maria” that was nailed to the door of Granada’s mosque

February 6, 2012

Commentaries on how Don Alonso Peres de Guzman sacrificed his own son rather than surrender to the Muslims

February 6, 2012

The Great Captain and his form of leadership

December 12, 2011

El Cid: A living legend who was the beating heart of the Spanish Reconquista

September 26, 2011

Unwisely, King Ferdinand lays siege to Loja—death of the youthful Don Roderigo Tellez Giron, Grand Master of Calatrava

August 11, 2011

The reconquista of Granada begins: Don Roderigo Ponce de Leon chooses Alhama as his target

August 8, 2011

Queen Isabella the Catholic resolves to hold Alhama whatever the cost

July 7, 2011

Don Roderigo Ponce de Leon, Marquess of Cadiz, a mirror of chivalry

June 27, 2011

St. Ferdinand III of Castile and Leon extends the Reconquista to Seville and the south of Spain

April 14, 2011

Don Pelayo rejects the call to surrender and triumphs at Covadonga

February 17, 2011

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