La impi yaseSagrajas
Lokhu kwehlulwa okukhulu kwe U-Alfonso VI phambi kwamabutho ombusi wase-Almoravid Yusuf ibn Tashfin kwaphawula ushintsho ekunqobeni kwamaCastilian, okwathi ngaphansi kokuyala kuka-Alfonso VI, wangabe esaba nempumelelo enkulu kwezempi.
El ukufika kwamasosha IMaghreb yenzeka ngesikhathi iNkosi u-Alfonso ivimbezele idolobha laseZaragoza. Womabili amabutho ahlangana emasimini e-al-Zallaka, ebizwa ngokuthi amaSagrajas ngamaKristu.
Bakanise ubuso nobuso, emaphethelweni oMfula iGuerrero, ngenkathi ukungezwani kwakhula kakhulu.
Okthoba 23 U-Alvar Fanez, omunye wabaphathi bezidumbu zika-Alfonso VI, wahlasela i-vanguard yesitha eyayakhiwe ngamakhosi ase-Andalusia. Ukuhlasela kokuqala kwenze amaCastilians azethemba, namabutho ka-Alfonso nawo abumbana azobhodloza i-Almoravid front. Kodwa-ke, u-Emperor Yusuf wayala ukuthi kusondele iMoroccan Kabyles futhi abeke ibhalansi yakhe enkundleni yempi futhi, ngenkathi ezojika ahlasele ikamu lamaKristu ngemuva.
Ukubanjwa phakathi kwemililo emibili amaCastilians ayengeke aphumelele. Ekugcineni inkundla yempi yayizoguqulwa ibe ukuboniswa kwamandla eMoroccan, anquma amakhanda izitha futhi athumela amakhanda awo emadolobheni amakhulu ase-Al-Andalus naseMaghreb, ukukhombisa ukunqoba kwabo okukhulu.