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  • 21 - Castile, Portugal and Navarre

  • from Part V - The Mediterranean Frontiers
  • David Abulafia, University of Cambridge
  • Book:
    The New Cambridge Medieval History
    Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    21 October 1999, pp 668-700

  • Summary

    Alfonso VIII of Castile's victory in July 1212 reversed the thrust of half a century of peninsular history. Castile had by far the most extensive frontiers to defend, and the cost of doing so and of advancing the Christian reconquest of the peninsula was to cripple its kings throughout the thirteenth century and beyond. It then imposes strains on their realm with which their Navarrese and Portuguese neighbours were largely unfamiliar. In 1214, after hunger had emerged the victor at the siege of Baeza, mutual exhaustion had driven Alfonso VIII and the Almohad caliph in Marrakesh to agree to a truce. While Castile, having absorbed Leon, was striking south, and in the north Navarre was being drawn even further into the French orbit, the young kingdom of Portugal had been experiencing almost uninterrupted political crisis. At the beginning of the reign Sancho had to repel the Marinids whom his father had brought into Castile.