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Jazmin Hiaya (late tenth to third decade of the eleventh century) of Arabic جازمين حيية this king was the only Arab military governor of the short-lived known Taifa of Talavera de la Reina.

Probably belonging to an Almohad tribe,with origin in North African. Jasmin Hiaya was military governor and king of the Taifa of Talavera de la Reina, (Medina at Talavayra) in Spain in the early eleventh century AD He is known from the legend that, when he was a young boy he had been promised the princess Aixa Galiana, niece of Al-Qadir, the last Moorish king of Toledo before the conquest of Alfonso VI. This beautiful woman was captured by the Christians and taken to Avila where he was christened and married to the young Nalvillos Blázquez from the lineage of Davila´s of then emerge D. Alvaro de Luna. In a business visit in which he was to deliver the price of land to the family of Blázquez,King Jazmin Hiaya saw his former fiancee and both fell in love. Taking advantage of the absence of Blázquez who was in the village of Villar del Pedroso and fled back to Talavera de la Reina.

When Galiana´s husband, Nalvillos Blázquez, came back to Avila discovered the betrayal, Blázquez gathered three hundred squires and headed for the lands of Talavera, depending on the version Jazmin Hiaya was betrayed by her lover, and according to other besieged the city arresting both and executed them on the spot known as the Alcoba near Talavera la Nueva

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