Note 17 — RELICS AND GENEALOGIES

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.