The Cid Campeador And the Waning of the Crescent in the West Microform
The Cid Campeador And the Waning of the Crescent in the West Microform
Henry Butler Clarke
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There were also present in the city a com- missioner and forty^knights, — subjects of the King of Aragon, and representing their master's claim. The suburb of Alcudia, * too, w^as held by a detachment of Aragonese. When the citizens heard that the Cid was apparently fully taken up with his own quarrel and in protecting Al-mustain in the north, and^that the rapidly advancing Almoravides had captured Denia and Murcia, they thought that the time had come to cast off their heavy yoke. Their schemes... were w^ell known to Ibn-Al-faraj ; but he had no troops at his disposal, and could only stand by the * The position of Alcudia is doubtful ; but it probably lay just outside the walls of Valencia, where the ground rises slightly, on the east of the city. 224 1092-93] The Revolution at Valefzcia. 225 feeble Yahya, and await the arrival of his master, whom he had informed by letter of the disturbed state of public feeling. The head of the revolutionary movement was Ibn- Jehaf, the hereditary Kadi of Valencia.
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