Reconquest of Cordoba by Fernando III of Castile, 1236

This video is narrated by Mr. J Stephen Roberts, who will be my guest on the next Reconquest.

(Real Crusades History) In the early 1230’s, while the Almohads were locked in civil war, Fernando III of Castile and Leon, a truly outstanding king in history, gathered his army and Crusaded to win some of the most dramatic gains in the history of the long Reconquista of Spain against the Arabs. Fernando would inflict a severe blow to the Muslims of Al-Andalus by recapturing Cordoba, the splendid Islamic capital of generations of Arab emirs. Fernando’s piety and zeal for the Crusade against the Moors would win him sainthood in the Catholic Church.