A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . Fl«. 11(1. — Templar invindress.(From Tirou.) Fig. 115. — .^tatiu ni u IVinplai. .\i iiior of thefirst half of the thirteenth century. Tomb-stone, probably of William Lonsiespee, sonof an Karl of .Salisbury; he fell in theHoly , as Crusailer, in 12.)0. In Salis-bury Cathedral. (From Stothard.). Ilc. 117.— Monk of the Order of theiioly Sepulchre. (From Tiron.) THE MOHAMMEDANS IN SPAIN. 261 the end virtually intact. Of (lire visitations and 1 titter straits therewas no laik. After the unffirtunate battl
A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . Fl«. 11(1. — Templar invindress.(From Tirou.) Fig. 115. — .^tatiu ni u IVinplai. .\i iiior of thefirst half of the thirteenth century. Tomb-stone, probably of William Lonsiespee, sonof an Karl of .Salisbury; he fell in theHoly , as Crusailer, in 12.)0. In Salis-bury Cathedral. (From Stothard.). Ilc. 117.— Monk of the Order of theiioly Sepulchre. (From Tiron.) THE MOHAMMEDANS IN SPAIN. 261 the end virtually intact. Of (lire visitations and 1 titter straits therewas no laik. After the unffirtunate battle of Alarcos, in 1195,where the Christians suffered a bloody defeat, the whole southernhalf of Castile, with the exception of the strong Toledo, fell oncemore into Mohammedan hands. Nor did the situation change materially till the opening of thethirteenth century, when the forces of the zealous Almohades werecalled elsewhere by a rebellion of the Almoravides in the BalearicIsles. The period of rest thus granted the Christians, with the res-toration of peace in their own ranks,enabled them to recover their strength,and take the field with brilliant suc-cess against the Emir Mohammed el-Nasr, who, in 1211, had resumed thewar against Castile. From the crush-ing defeat inflicted on him at Navasde Tolosa, July 16, 1212, by the Cas-tilians, supported by the Aragonese and theknightly
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