Yusuf Abu'l Hadchach and the end of Moorish power in Spain

Alfonso XI, King of Castile, Leon and Galicia (1311-1350). Privilegio rodado, granting the town of Escamjella to Yenego Lopez de Horozco.

Segovia, Royal Chancery, 29. IX. 1344.

Large folio, 61 x 72 cm (with plica folded). Illustrated Castilian manuscript on vellum, 1 page. Folded and loosely contained within a handsome custom-made dark crimson quarter leather and cloth clamshell box with title giltstamped to spine.

€ 18.000,00

A fine, large manuscript document from the reign of Alfonso XI. The Royal Charter is written in Castilian vernacular with the royal names (Alfonso and that of his second wife, Maria of Portugal), opening device and King's seal painted in red, green, blue and beige (the latter occupying a large area at the centre of the document).

In the Charter, Alfonso grants the town of Escamjella (Escamilla) to Yenego Lopez de Horozco (the Alcarreño nobleman Íñigo López de Orozco, d. ca. 1355); he further commemorates the taking of Algeciras and the subjugation of Granada four years earlier, events which marked the effective end of Moorish power in Spain.

Granada's fall was brought about by the great naval victory of the Rio Salado in 1340, referred to in a separate passage. The King's admiral, Don Egidio Boccanegra, was sent with eleven galleys against the Moorish King of Granada, Yusuf Abu'l Hadchach, and Abul Hassan, Emir of Masseucos. The Spaniard defeated Yusuf's fleet of sixty ships and was rewarded with the title of Grand Admiral. The Charter present contains confirmations by Yusuf (styled Don Yucaff Abulhagege in the text) and Don Egidio, as well as leading lay and church princes and the King's own staff.

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