ar-Rundi lived through the fall of most of the major Andalusi cities—such as Cadiz, Cordoba, Seville, and others—to the forces of the Catholic monarchs: Alfonso VIII of Castile and his grandson Ferdinand III, Sancho VII of Navarre, and Peter II of Aragon.[1] Most major Andalusi cities fell within the span of a century with the collapse of the Almohad Caliphate.[1]