Abencerrages
Sign in to savethumb|El último abencerraje(The last Abencerrage) by Ignacio Merino thumb|The Slaying of the Abencerrages, by Marià Fortuny (1870) The Abencerrages or Abencerrajes (, ; from the Arabic , ) were a family or faction that is said to have held a prominent position in the Kingdom of Granada in the 15th century.
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thumb|El último abencerraje(The last Abencerrage) by Ignacio Merino thumb|The Slaying of the Abencerrages, by Marià Fortuny (1870) The Abencerrages or Abencerrajes (, ; from the Arabic , ) were a family or faction that is said to have held a prominent position in the Kingdom of Granada in the 15th century.
The name appears to have been derived from Yussuf ben-Serragh, the head of the tribe in the time of Muhammed VII, Sultan of Granada (1370–1408), who did that sovereign good service in his struggles to retain the crown of which he was three times deprived.