Boabdil biography of williams
Boabdil biography of williams county.
Boabdil biography of williams
Muhammad XII of Granada
22nd and last Nasrid ruler of the Emirate of Grenada (r. 1482–1483, 1487–1492)
Abu Abdallah Muhammad XII (Arabic: أبو عبد الله محمد الثاني عشر, romanized: Abū ʿAbdi-llāh Muḥammad ath-thānī ʿashar; c. 1460–1533), known in Europe as Boabdil,[b] was the 22nd and last Nasrid ruler of the Emirate of Granada in Iberia.
Sultan
Muhammad XII was the son of Abu l-Hasan Ali, Sultan of the Emirate of Granada whom he succeeded in 1482,[4] as a result of both court intrigue and unrest amongst the population at large.[5]
Muhammad XII soon sought to gain prestige by invading Castile, but was taken prisoner at Lucena in 1483.[4] Muhammad's father was then restored as ruler of Granada, to be replaced in 1485 by his uncle Muhammad XIII, also known as Abdullah ez Zagal.
Muhammad obtained his freedom and Christian support to recover his throne in 1487, by consenting to hold Granada as a tributary kingdom und