Boabdil was the last king of Granada. Abû Abd Al•lâh, known as Muhammad XII, was a member of the Nasrid dynasty, called Boabdil or Boabdil el Chico by Christians to distinguish him from his uncle Abu 'Abd Allāh "the Elder".
Born in the Alhambra, son of Muley Hacén and Sultaness Aixa, he rebelled in Guadix against his father in 1482 and ascended to the throne thanks to the support of the Abencerrajes and his own mother. He fought against his father and uncle, who also considered themselves legitimate kings of Granada.
During the Battle of Martín González, in the municipality of Lucena, he was captured by the Catholic Monarchs. His release involved giving Castile the part of the kingdom that Zagal ruled, which favored Castilian penetration and the end of the war on January 2, 1492, with the taking of Granada by the Catholic Monarchs.
In 1492, the Catholic Monarchs entered Granada as punishment for this kingdom's refusal to pay the tributes demanded of it. The Capitulation of Granada established that Boabdil would hold the lordship of the Alpujarras.
According to a widespread Spanish legend whose veracity is not attested by any documentation, upon leaving Granada on his way to exile in the Alpujarras, when he crowned a hill, he turned his head to see his city for the last time and wept, hearing from his mother, Sultaness Aixa:
"Weep like a woman for what you could not defend as a man."
Because of this, that mountain is named Suspiro del Moro (Sigh of the Moor).
In his Alpujarran exile, he settled in the Almeria town of Laujar de Andarax, this being his last residence on the Iberian Peninsula. In Laujar, in 1493, the last Sultaness of Granada, Morayma, Boabdil's wife, died. In 1493, he left the peninsula for Fez after selling the rights of his lordship to the Catholic Monarchs and collecting the remains of his ancestors in Mondújar, next to Talará (Granada).
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