Resumen de Templar dispatches from the battlefield: a new source for the battle of Las Navas de Tolosa
A brief letter written by a Templar knight shortly after the battle of Las Navas de Tolosa on 16 July 1212, and preserved at the end of a manuscript of First Crusade histories, is a heretofore unrecognized source for this key Iberian battle. Though containing little new information, the letter illuminates the networks by which news of the battle was disseminated, and its inclusion alongside liturgical materials celebrating the capture of Jerusalem on 15 July 1099 at the end of the First Crusade suggests an association between the two midsummer crusade victories.
