Qualla: Battle of Almenar (1082) https://qualla.com/battle-of-almenar-1082 en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:39:03 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/2/m/battle-of-almenar-1082-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Almenar (1082) https://qualla.com/battle-of-almenar-1082 Battle of Almenar (1082): Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-almenar-1082/ Photo credit Deosringas, CC BY-SA 3.0 es. The legend remembers El Cid as the sword of Christian Spain. History remembers that at Almenar, in the summer of 1082, he drew that sword for a Muslim king, against an army of Christian counts. Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, the exiled Castilian knight the Arabs called al-sayyid, the lord, was by then the most feared soldier on the Ebro frontier, and he served the Muslim ruler of Zaragoza. When the rival Muslim kingdom of Lleida gathered nearly every count of Catalonia to its side and besieged a border castle, it was El Cid who rode to relieve it, and the field outside Almenar that ended in a rout no one had bet on.

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/2/m/battle-of-almenar-1082-wp/sp2m-battle-of-almenar-1082-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Almenar (1082): A Sword for Hire https://qualla.com/battle-of-almenar-1082/ Photo credit Deosringas, CC BY-SA 3.0 es. Exiled from his native Castile, Rodrigo Diaz entered the service of the Muslim taifa of Zaragoza in the summer of 1081, and quickly became its most valuable weapon. His epithet, El Cid, came from the Arabic for lord, a mark of the respect he won on both sides of a border where lo...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/2/m/battle-of-almenar-1082-wp/sp2m-battle-of-almenar-1082-a-sword-for-hire.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Almenar (1082): Brother Against Brother https://qualla.com/battle-of-almenar-1082/ Photo credit Deosringas, CC BY-SA 3.0 es. The war grew out of a family quarrel. In the autumn of 1081 the ailing ruler al-Muqtadir split his realm between two sons: al-Mutamin took the western portion around Zaragoza, and al-Mundhir the eastern part based on Lleida. The brothers were soon enemies. Al-Mundhir allied with ...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/2/m/battle-of-almenar-1082-wp/sp2m-battle-of-almenar-1082-brother-against-brother.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Almenar (1082): The Counts Ride to Lleida's Side https://qualla.com/battle-of-almenar-1082/ Photo credit Deosringas, CC BY-SA 3.0 es. The spark was a fortress. When El Cid and al-Mutamin refortified Almenar, only twenty kilometres from Lleida, al-Mundhir took it as a challenge he could not ignore, and he built a coalition to match. Almost every county of Catalonia joined him save Pallars: Barcelona, Cerdanya, B...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/2/m/battle-of-almenar-1082-wp/sp2m-battle-of-almenar-1082-the-counts-ride-to-lleidas-side.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Almenar (1082): Water Running Short https://qualla.com/battle-of-almenar-1082/ Photo credit Deosringas, CC BY-SA 3.0 es. While El Cid was away forcing another castle to submit, al-Mundhir and his Catalan allies marched on Almenar and besieged it, and the siege dragged on long enough that the garrison began to run short of water. Learning of the danger, El Cid sent urgent word to al-Mutamin, who lef...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/2/m/battle-of-almenar-1082-wp/sp2m-battle-of-almenar-1082-water-running-short.mp3 0:06 5 full Battle of Almenar (1082): The Rout and the Ransom https://qualla.com/battle-of-almenar-1082/ Photo credit Deosringas, CC BY-SA 3.0 es. The two armies met just outside Almenar. It began with frontal charges and turned almost at once into a rout of the besiegers; al-Mundhir fled the field, and Count Berenguer Ramon II of Barcelona was taken captive, the day's greatest prize. The number of dead and captured, one ch...

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