THE NACOZ OF NIGÜELAS
Nacoz (or Anacoz), El. Nigüelas (Granada) p.m.XVI -Granada, 1571 Moorish General. Captain monfi (banished, bandit) who harassed the territory since before the rebellion, in 1567 he joined the conspiracy to raise the Moors. Together with the Partal de Narila it was designated by the albaicineros to occupy their army in the city of Granada, for which, in a place agreed upon on December 25, 1568, they picked up Farax Aben Farax, whom the conspirators appointed to lead the revolt. The day they marched to Güejar, where they went hidden by Mendoza el Huscein and El Xoaybi, adding to their strength the monfia ran El Seniz. All together gathering new strength in Pinos, Cenes, Quentar and Dudar, from where they returned, led by Farax Aben Farax, to take the Albaicin and start the revolt in the city. However, this populous neighborhood in Granada did not rise up, forcing this and other monk captains to march into the Alpujarra where he participated in the murders and martyrdom of old Christians. Representative of the Moorish radical wing his initial actions were taken for granted, even when they were criticised by the Moorish leaders themselves for their enormous cruelty. Named General on January 10, 1569, together with El Redendi and Gironcillo, he fought in Tablate, although without success, to the Marquis of Mondéjar in his advance to the Alpujarra. Even without abandoning that strategic scenario, would remain on the lookout for the nearby mountains until, at mid month, he attacked with Gironcillo this prison destroying it and killing all the garrison. Leader of the hard sector, he supported the murders of Aben Humeya of the Moors moderate, remaining hidden in the mountains while the reduction of Mondéjar lasted. Between April and May he collaborated in the second land uprising, being named governor of the Lecrin Valley and the Granada plain, where he led an army of a thousand men to protect the western border of the Alpujarra. Their military work was focused in the Lecrin Valley and in the attack on the escorts that the army sent to Órgiva, highlighting Among his actions was the defeat he inflicted on the Padul prison on August 21, which led to the sacking of the village, as well as the confinement of Captain Chaves in a ravine between the villages of Acequias and Lanjaron where over 200 soldiers died. As a result of the killings and havoc that El Nacoz was doing that summer Juan de Austria ordered Garcia I had him prepare an offensive to annihilate the power of this monfrey. The attack began in Otura and ended up at the gates of the villas of Saleres and Albuñuelas, a battle in which "Our people won three flags in this victory, and to rejoice the city they entered by she dragging them and the squires carrying the heads and hands of the Moors in the irons of the spears." The Nacoz managed to flee to the sierra, from where it crossed the Sierra de Almijara and, by Almuñecar, was able to get the estate and family out of Berbería, leaving him stuck in the mountains until the end of the contest. The squads of the Duke of Arcos, the new captain general of Grenada, managed to capture him and execute him in the capital of the kingdom.
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