Taifa of Valencia

The Taifa of Valencia was a medieval taifa kingdom which existed, in and around Valencia, Spain during four distinct periods: from 1010 to 1065, from 1075 to 1099, from 1145 to 1147 and last from 1229 to 1238 when it was finally conquered by the Aragon.

From 1094 to 1099 the kingdom was also famously subject to the rule of legendary military leader El Cid.

List of Rulers

Saqlabi dynasty (Servile Rulers)

Mubarrak: 1010/1–1017 with...
Muzaffar: 1010/1–1017
Lab'ib (Tortosa c. 1009–bfr. 1039/40):1017–1019, d. bfr. 1039; with...
Muyahid (in Denia 1010/2–1045): 1017–1021, d. 1045

Amirid dynasty

'Abd al-'Aziz: 1021–1061
'Abd al-Malik al-Muzzaffar: 1061–1065
- To Toledo: 1065–1075
Abu Bakr ibn Abd al-Aziz: 1075–1085
'Uthman: 1085–1086

Dhunnunid dynasty

Yahya al-Qadir (in Toledo 1075–1085): 1086–1092

Yahhafid dynasty

El Cid orders the execution of Abu Ahmad Dja'far and his companions after his conquest of the Taifa of Valencia in 1094.

Abu Ahmad Dja'far: 1092–1094

Dynasty of El Cid

El Cid: 1094–1099
Jimena Díaz: 1099–1102
- To Castile: 1099–1102
- To Almoravids: 1102–1145

'Abd al-'Aziz dynasty

Abu 'Abd al-Malik Marwan: 1145

'Jyaddid dynasty

Abu Muhammad: 1145–1146, d. 1147

Huddid dynasty

Abu Dja'far Ahmad "Zafadola": 1146

'Jyaddid dynasty (restored)

Abu Muhammad (restored): 1146–1147
- To Murcia: 1147–1172
- To Almohads: 1172–1229

Mardanis dynasty

Zayyan (in Onda 1228–1229, Murcia 1239–1241): 1229–1238, d. 1241
- To Crown of Aragon thereafter

External links

http://web.raex.com/~obsidian/taifa.html

Taifa Kingdoms in the Iberian Peninsula

11th Century	Albarracín Algeciras Almería (I / II) Alpuente Arcos Badajoz Carmona Ceuta (I) Córdoba Dénia Granada Jerica Lisbon Lorca Málaga (I / II) Mallorca Melilla Mértola Molina Morón Murcia (I / II) Murviedro and Sagunto Niebla Ronda Saltés and Huelva Santa Maria do Algarve Segorbe Seville Silves Toledo (I / II) Tortosa (I / II) Valencia (I / II) Zaragoza

12th Century	Almería (III) Arcos (II) Badajoz (II) Beja and Évora Carmona (II) Constantina and Hornachuelos Granada (II) Guadix and Baza Jaén (I / II) Jerez Málaga (III) Mértola (II / III) Murcia (III / IV) Niebla (II) Purchena Santarém Segura Silves (II) Tavira Tejada Valencia (III)

13th Century	Arjona Baeza Ceuta (II / III) Dénia (II) Lorca (II) Málaga (IV) Menorca Murcia (V) Niebla (III) Orihuela Valencia (IV)

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