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The refusal of al-Qadir in the late spring and summer of 1086 to pay for the maintenance of the Christian forces was not just a dismissal of a mercenary captain but an abortive attempt at a policy independent of his overlord . A gradual campaign of attrition and a slowly increasing military pressure against the city itself would finally result in the peaceful capitulation of Toledo in the spring of 1085 . The fall of the great and meteoric ascent of the modest became ever more possible as the relatively fluid rules of marriage and wardship , regency and minority promised to rule the game . He did manage to cut his way free to a line of retreat but a running fight then developed , which probably continued until nightfall with some intensity , for the open terrain offered no good place for a temporary stand to discourage pursuit .