This was the Lindaraxa whose name still
designates one of the gardens of the Alhambra.
Don Pedro de Venegas alone, the husband of the princess
Cetimerien, received no favor. He was considered as having produced
the late troubles by his intrigues. The Abencerrages charged him
with the reverses of their family and the deaths of so many of their
bravest cavaliers. The king never spoke of him but by the
opprobrious appellation of the Tornadizo, or Renegade. Finding himself
in danger of arrest and punishment, he took leave of his wife, the
princess, his two sons, Abul Cacim and Reduan, and his daughter,
Cetimerien, and fled to Jaen. There, like his brother-in-law, the
usurper, he expiated his intrigues and irregular ambition by
profound humiliation and melancholy, and died in 1434 a penitent,
because a disappointed man.
Muhamed el Hayzari was doomed to further reverses. He had two
nephews, Aben Osmyn, surnamed El Anaf, or the Lame, and Aben Ismael.
The former, who was of an ambitious spirit, resided in Almeria; the
latter in Granada, where he had many friends. He was on the point of
espousing a beautiful girl, when his royal uncle interfered and gave
her to one of his favorites. Enraged at this despotic act, the
prince Aben Ismael took horse and weapons and sallied from Granada for
the frontier, followed by numerous cavaliers. The affair gave
general disgust, especially to the Abencerrages who were attached to
the prince.
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