In about 1646 he was imprisoned by the Moorish king, but succeeded in escaping with his family to Amsterdam (ca. 1653).
According to legend, five Moorish kings buried a huge treasure inside the cave, but it has never been found.
His son wrote to the Moorish king, entreating that the body of his father might be sought and honorably treated.
These discreet statues watch over a treasure hidden in old times by a Moorish king.
By his advice he dispatched two of his stoutest warriors, armed cap-a-pie, on an embassy to the Moorish king.
This amazing apparition brought about the conversion of the Moorish king to Christianity.
In 1492, Spain drove out the last Moorish king of Granada.
Mambrino was a fictional Moorish king, celebrated in the romances of chivalry.
Don Quixote insisted that this basin was the enchanted helmet of the Moorish king.
First the Phoenicians and then the Moorish kings, chose this "small sea" as the site of their summer residences.
