Don Alfonso’s Escape from the Monastery. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Don Alfonso’s Escape from the Monastery.
Subject: Inheritance and Succession; Monasteries; Escaped prisoners
Period: 1900-1950;
Geographic: Spain
Description: Don Alfonso escapes from the monastery in which he has been locked up by his brother King Don Sancho. Not satisfied with the territory he got as an inheritance from his father, Sancho has been trying to conquer the territories left to his siblings as well. Rather than kill Alfonso when he was captured, Sancho was convinced by his sister Doña Urraca and the Cid to send him to a monastery instead. Alfonso was able to escape quickly, fleeing to Toledo out of Sancho’s control.
Image Creator: Harry McVickar (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:11880
Language: eng
Source Name: Stories from the Chronicle of the Cid, by Mary Wright Plummer, Author of “Roy and Ray in Mexico,” “Roy and Ray in Canada,” etc.
Parent Collection: 1910 New York Plummer Chronicle; 1910 New York Plummer Chronicle
Image: mta_11880_OBJ.png
Collection: El Cid
Subject: Inheritance and Succession; Monasteries; Escaped prisoners