Cádiz

Cádiz marks the limit of the English crusading expedition in the narrative: the knights reached it, but their anticipated campaign never proceeded to the Holy Land.

Arrival and Abandoned Expedition

The knights arrived at Cádiz as part of a plan for a glorious crusade. Yet they never embarked for the Holy Land, where they had expected to fight. The journey therefore stopped short of its declared destination, turning the arrival at Cádiz into the expedition’s decisive limit rather than the beginning of a campaign overseas.

Letters and Narrative Role

Katherine of Aragon translated correspondence between Henry VIII and her father concerning the preparations. Her father explained that he had not raised his troops and was not yet ready to leave. The letters make the failure to proceed a matter of unfulfilled military preparation, not a battle at Cádiz. The place anchors the contrast between the crusade’s grand promise and its abandonment before it began.