Las Navas de Tolosa

The Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa took place on 16 July 1212 and was an important turning point in the Reconquista and in the medieval history of Spain. The forces of King Alfonso VIII of Castile were joined by the armies of his Christian rivals, Sancho VII of Navarre, Peter II of Aragon and Afonso II of Portugal in battle against the Berber Muslim Almohad rulers of the southern half of the Iberian Peninsula. The Caliph al-Nasir (Miramamolín in the Spanish chronicles) led the Almohad army, made up of people from the whole Almohad empire. Most of the men in the Almohad army came from the African side of the empire, which included Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and even as far away as Mauritania and Senegal and much of the Iberian peninsula's southern half.

By the way I had to replace the audio track I chose for this video. I used originally "The Thirteenth Warrior" by Jerry Goldsmith". Now it's "La Mer" by Claude Debussy.

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[GAME4WAR]

Does anyone else see the irony that this was done by a jew "goldsmith"? the people that first invited the moors into spain in the 1st place

[DrGull1888]

@GAME4WAR I do not understand.

[LordBuntaro]

The battle of Las Navas de Tolosa (for the Moors is Al Uqab, " The punishment "). It is unaccountable to me as a battle of this size and this magnitude, it still lacks a movie. I'm sure than if those Christian warriors they had been British or American, they would have a movie a long time

[DrGull1888]

@LordBuntaro Indeed a movie about Las Navas de Tolosa would be awesome. Also one about Lepanto. But you oversee the major Hollywood production of El Cid with Charlton Heston.

By the way my compliments to Lady Toda and to honourable Hiromatsu Sama.

[dkrustyklown]

¡Santiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaago!

[nandor41]

Very interesting. Beautifull music. . Congratulations DrGull for this excellent video-  description of this principal battle in the liberation of Spain. Is surpresing for me what betwen Orders participants in Las Navas de Tolosa, not were the Templars, what had several "houses" and great influence in spanish countries, specially in Kingdom of Aragón.

[98bigbutt]

@meatspice,Yes they do especially in Southern Spain with their olive skin,dark hair and blue eyes.

[meatspice]

@LordBuntaro I don't see many north african (arabic) features in the Spainish mostly European features

[LordBuntaro]

@meatspice

Then, for you also they are Moors? Or rather, they are European features, particularly Celtic and Latin? I don't know of no scientific evidence that links us with the Moors

[LordBuntaro]

@meatspice

Eyes or dark hair (it is not my case) is synonymous with an Arab descent? And what about the many white Americans with these characteristics (Cindy Crawford, Jennifer Love Hewitt, George Clooney? Or the italians? Or the greeks? Or the french? Or the irish? Or british like Clive Owen, Victoria Beckam or Catherine Zeta Jonnes? They also have these characteristics...

[LordBuntaro]

And not only this, but other battles such as Lepanto

[Thrashgu]

At the final charge the three kings commanded all the rest of the crusaders army (For that is called the charge of the three kings). Sancho VII and his navarres broke the chain of the Moor and killed the black fanatics, the chain of the tent, is still conserved with the flails used by Sancho VII in the battle. The chain became the actual coat of arms of Navarre.