Qualla: Battle of Fraga https://qualla.com/battle-of-fraga 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/k/battle-of-fraga-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Fraga https://qualla.com/battle-of-fraga Battle of Fraga: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-fraga/ Photo credit Francisco Pradilla y Ortiz, Public domain. For nearly three decades, Alfonso I of Aragon earned his name in the field. His own subjects called him el Batallador, the Battler. To the Muslims of the frontier he was Ibn Rudmir, son of Ramiro, and sometimes al-Farandji, the Frank. By the summer of 1134 he had spent a lifetime pushing the borders of Aragon southward, and when he laid siege to the frontier town of Fraga that July, he expected the campaign to end the way most of his campaigns did. It did not. The battle fought outside these walls on 17 July 1134 broke his army in a single afternoon, and within weeks it broke him.

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/2/k/battle-of-fraga-wp/sp2k-battle-of-fraga-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Fraga: The Long Frontier https://qualla.com/battle-of-fraga/ Photo credit Francisco Pradilla y Ortiz, Public domain. Since the second half of the eleventh century, the kings of Aragon and the counts of Barcelona and Urgell had pressed with stubborn persistence against the Muslim towns and fortresses of the Marca Superior, the Upper March of al-Andalus. Their eyes were fixed on the lowlands alon...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/2/k/battle-of-fraga-wp/sp2k-battle-of-fraga-the-long-frontier.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Fraga: The Relief Comes Riding https://qualla.com/battle-of-fraga/ Photo credit Francisco Pradilla y Ortiz, Public domain. The Almoravid answer was swift and coordinated. From Cordoba, the emir, a son of the caliph, fielded two thousand horsemen. The emir of Murcia and Valencia, Yahya ibn Ghaniya, added five hundred more, and the governor of Lleida contributed another two hundred. Combined under the ...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/2/k/battle-of-fraga-wp/sp2k-battle-of-fraga-the-relief-comes-riding.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Fraga: One Confident Morning https://qualla.com/battle-of-fraga/ Photo credit Francisco Pradilla y Ortiz, Public domain. The king's own entourage crashed into the cavalry of Yahya ibn Ghaniya, and there the day turned. Almoravid horsemen cut the Aragonese ranks apart. Sensing the collapse, the townspeople poured out of Fraga and fell upon the lightly guarded Christian camp, killing the soldiers lef...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/2/k/battle-of-fraga-wp/sp2k-battle-of-fraga-one-confident-morning.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Fraga: What the Field Took https://qualla.com/battle-of-fraga/ Photo credit Francisco Pradilla y Ortiz, Public domain. The toll fell heaviest on men who had followed the king across the Pyrenees. Among the dead were French knights of real standing: Aimery II of Narbonne, Bertran de Risnel, and Centule VI, Viscount of Bearn, who had marched with Alfonso as an ally rather than a subject. Guy of Les...

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