In 1117, Alfonso I "The Warrior" begins the campaign against Zaragoza, with the help of relatives and their brother William IX of Poitiers , Duke of Aquitaine, and gentlemen of the Midi, in southern France, and Navarre, Aragon and Biscay men and Alava.
The city of Zaragoza was delivered on December 18, 1118.
So the "Warrior" is intended to besiege Calatayud, besieged in the year 1119, but had to leave to meet an army sent by Emperor Almoravid Ali Ben Yusuf jealous of the successes of Aragon as a last attempt to stop the advance Christian. The battle took place in Cutanda, 50 miles southeast of Calatayud, on June 17, 1120 and the Christian victory was resounding. Then following the victory, June 24, 1120, it gave the cities of Calatayud and Daroca and all the valleys of the Jalón and Jiloca, thus leaving open the path to the Levant and in particular to Valencia.
In Calatayud there was a great center of resistance of the Arabs and forced to fight this effort and dangers, which were very bloody because there was no Arab would not lose life, liberty, or the country. The victory was so prodigious that was attributed to divine relief of St. George, and he has been making memory and appreciation of this noble city, which celebrates the saint as his master restorer.
With the return of Calatayud and newcomers Aragon was a clear need to increase the Christian presence, so the king granted the city a "Jurisdictions" being a set of privileges and standards local law that favored the influx of northerners. Given the new situation Calatayud continued to maintain its hegemony by becoming the "Comunidad de Calatayud" with various vicissitudes, persisted until the s. XIX. During the late Middle Ages, Calatayud is the second city of Aragon, the courts held there in the church of San Pedro of the Franks.
mid nineteenth century, Calatayud would be capital of the province, covering its territory to the city of Medina.
SOURCE: www.alfonsadas.es
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