Qualla: Siege of Guardamar https://qualla.com/siege-of-guardamar en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:38:46 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Siege of Guardamar https://qualla.com/siege-of-guardamar Siege of Guardamar: Introduction https://qualla.com/siege-of-guardamar/ Guardamar told the king exactly how it would fall, twenty-five years before it did. In 1306 the town council of Guardamar del Segura wrote to James II of Aragon with a plain and unhappy assessment: whenever an enemy planned a raid into the frontier lands beyond Jijona, they thought first of Guardamar, because its castle and its wall were in such poor condition that it was the weakest point on the whole border. The warning was accurate. When a Granadan army finally came in October 1331, the town held out for a single day.

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/y/z/8/siege-of-guardamar-wp/eyz8-siege-of-guardamar-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Siege of Guardamar: A Warning on Paper https://qualla.com/siege-of-guardamar/ In the early fourteenth century, Guardamar was a modest place, home to around a thousand people, perched at the southern edge of the Kingdom of Valencia where the Crown of Aragon met Muslim territory. Frontier towns like this lived on borrowed calm. The council knew its defenses ...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/y/z/8/siege-of-guardamar-wp/eyz8-siege-of-guardamar-the-frontier-ignites.mp3 0:06 3 full Siege of Guardamar: One Man Answered https://qualla.com/siege-of-guardamar/ As the danger became clear, the people of Guardamar sent for help to the royal official Guillem de Liminyana, who was at Orihuela. What came was almost nothing: a single commander, Pere de Tona, with twenty-seven crossbowmen and lancers. The main army entered the Kingdom of Valen...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/y/z/8/siege-of-guardamar-wp/eyz8-siege-of-guardamar-one-man-answered.mp3 0:06 4 full Siege of Guardamar: After the Walls Fell https://qualla.com/siege-of-guardamar/ The victors did not linger. Reinforced by the Marinids from Morocco, the Granadan army moved on to besiege and take Gibraltar, the greater prize on the strait itself. Guardamar's loss was one small wound in a much wider war. The Christian powers regrouped in their turn: in 1333, ...

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