[11] Alcántara, Hist. Granad., c. 17. See also Al Makkari, Hist. Mohama. Dynasties, B. VIII. c. 7, with the Commentaries of Don Pascual de Guyangos.
[12] For authorities for these latter facts, see the Appendix to the author’s revised edition of the Conquest of Granada.
[13] Ay una puerta en la Alhambra por la qual salio Chico Rey de los Moros, quando si rindio prisionero al Rey de España D. Fernando, y le entregó la ciudad con el castillo. Pidio esta principe como por merced, y en memoria de tan importante conquista, al que quedasse siempre cerrada esta puerta. Consintio en allo el Rey Fernando, y des de aquel tiempo no solamente no se abrio la puerta sino tambien se construyo junto à ella fuerte bastion.—Moreri’s Historical Dictionary, Spanish Edition, Vol. I. p. 372.
[14] The minor details of the surrender of Granada have been stated in different ways even by eye-witnesses. The author, in his revised edition of the Conquest, has endeavored to adjust them according to the latest and apparently best authorities.
[15] See a more detailed account of the exploit in the chronicle of the Conquest of Granada.
[16] Marmol, Hist. Rebellion of the Moors.
[17] Lest this should be deemed a mere stretch of fancy, the reader is referred to the following genealogy, derived by the historian Alcántara, from an Arabian manuscript, on parchment, in the archives of the Marquis of Corvera. It is a specimen of the curious affinities between Christians and Moslems, produced by capture and intermarriages, during the Moorish wars. From Aben Hud, the Moorish king, the conqueror of the Almohades, was descended in right line Cid Yahia Abraham Alnagar, prince of Almeria, who married a daughter of King Bermejo. They had three children, commonly called the Cetimerian Princes. 1st. Jusef ben Alhamar, who for a time usurped the throne of Granada. 2d. The Prince Nasar, who married the celebrated Lindaraxa. 3d. The Princess Cetimerien, who married Don Pedro Venegas captured by the Moors in his boyhood, a younger son of the House of Luque, of which house the old court was the present head.
[18] The reader will recognize the sovereign connected with the fortunes of the Abencerrages. His story appears to be a little fictionized in the legend.
[19] Torres. Hist. Ord. Alcántara. “Cron. Enrique III.” por Pedro Lopez de Ayala.
[20] Miguel Lafuente Alcántara.