 Tradition claims however that a contingent led by Álvar Fáñez de Minaya (one of the lieutenants of El Cid) seized the city on 24 June, at night.The area was repopulated with people from the North (Castilians from the mountains and Merindades, Basques and Navarreses mainly).Alfonso VII granted Guadalajara its first "fuero" on 3 May 1133.