The King of Spain, Ferdinand
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The Siege of Setenil is a battle that took place in 1484. It's featured in Medieval II: Total War as a historical battle, where you take the role of the Spanish army under King Ferdinand as you assault a Moorish fortress.
Units[]
King Ferdinand (Spain)[]
The Spanish army is composed of infantry of many types, from light infantry to heavy infantry to skirmishers to crossbowmen, heavy cavalry and cannons.
(Moors)[]
The Moorish army is composed of several units of heavy infantry, spearmen, crossbowmen, trebuchets and heavy cavalry, and one unit of skirmishers.
In History[]
The fortress of Setenil
The struggle against Moorish occupation of Spanish territories was old even before the famed "Reconquista". With the coming of the 15th century, intolerance against Jews, heretics and Muslims began to rise dramatically throughout the Spanish kingdom. Adding this, crusading was back in favour with the papacy, thus the war against Muslim Granada was viewed favourably by many Christians, with taxes beign raised and volunteers urged to fight under the banners of the Spanish states Castile and Aragon. With the Christians' renewed vigour towards the Reconquista, it came as little surprise that the Muslims fought for the Jihad, a holy war in defence of their homeland. This warlike state stagnated into cross border raids and piracy with the border becoming a no man's land. All this was about to change with the marriage of Isabella of Castile to Ferdinand of Aragon in 1469. With the Spanish states united and focused towards destroying the Emirate of Granada, its continuing existence viewed as an insult to the Catholic Church, Queen Isabella zealously exhorted her husband to launch a fresh wave of the Reconquista and work his way to the capital of Granada, leaving no enemy settlements behind him. In the year 1484 he faced the fortress of Setenil, sitting on its rocky crag.