[7] Una de las cosas en que tienen precisa intervencion los Reyes Moros as en el matrimonio de sus grandes: de aqui nace que todos los señores llegadas à la persona real si casan en palacio, y siempre huvo su quarto destinado para esta ceremonia. One of the things in which the Moorish kings interfered was in the marriage of their nobles: hence it came that all the señors attached to the royal person were married in the palace; and there was always a chamber destined for the ceremony.--_Paseos por Granada_, Paseo XXI. [8] Alcántara, _Hist. Granad._, O. 3, p. 226, note. [9] Salazar y Castro, _Hist. Genealog. de la Casa de Lara_, lib. v. c. 12, cited by Alcántara in his _Hist. Granad._ [10] Al Makkari, B. VIII. c. 7. [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.