The Battle of Consuegra was a battle of the
Spanish Reconquista
The ' (Spanish, Portuguese and Galician for "reconquest") is a historiographical construction describing the 781-year period in the history of the Iberian Peninsula between the Umayyad conquest of Hispania in 711 and the fall of the Nasri ...
fought on 15 August 1097 near the village of
Consuegra in the province of
Castile-La Mancha between the
Castilian and
Leonese army of
Alfonso VI and the
Almoravids under
Yusuf ibn Tashfin
Yusuf ibn Tashfin, also Tashafin, Teshufin, ( ar, يوسف بن تاشفين ناصر الدين بن تالاكاكين الصنهاجي , Yūsuf ibn Tāshfīn Naṣr al-Dīn ibn Tālākakīn al-Ṣanhājī ; reigned c. 1061 – 1106) was l ...
. The battle soon turned into Almoravid victory, with the Leónese dead including the son of
El Cid,
Diego Rodríguez. Alfonso, with some Leónese, retreated into the castle of Consuegra, which was besieged for eight days until the Almoravids withdrew to the south.
References
The Library of Iberian Resources Online
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Official Web site of The Battle of Consuegra
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