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  • King of Granada. June 28, 1360.


    Marisa Ollero
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    King of Granada. June 28, 1360.

    Muhammed VI (1332 – 25 April 1362) was the brother in-law of Ismail II, by his marriage to one of Ismail II’s full-blood sisters, and after his murder, he was proclaimed tenth Nasrid ruler of Granada in Iberia. He was descended from the female branch of the Nasrid Dynasty through his great-grandmother Fatima, daughter of Muhammed II al-Faqih. He was known in Spanish as El Bermejo for his red hair.

    Moorish chroniclers described him as a coarse man in dress and manners. He aligned himself with the Christian Crown of Aragon and discarded the usual tribute of his ancestors to Castile. In January 1362 at Guadix, he took many Castilians captive after an incursion. Muhammed V had returned to Andalusia in 1361 capturing MalagaLojaAntequeraVelez and Alhama. Muhammed VI fled Granada in March 1362 and was murdered at Tablada, a town near Seville on April 25, 1362, by the order of King Peter I of Castile, who had helped restore Muhammed V to his throne.



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