Abenchara was the daughter of the
faycán Chambeneder. She was taken prisoner by the Castilian captain
Pedro de Vera during the
conquest of the Canary Islands in the summer of 1482. Her husband,
Tenesor Semidán, was captured six months later. Abenchara was taken to the
Córdoba, in the
Iberian Peninsula, where the
Catholic Monarchs were overseeing the
conquest of the
Emirate of Granada. On 31 August, both received Abenchara, who was pregnant, and entrusted her care to the warden of the
Alcázar,
Juan de Frías. The Queen of the Canary Islands was seriously ill due to the vicissitudes of the long journey and her pregnancy, and she was on the verge of death for four weeks. However, she recovered and on 30 September gave birth to a girl named . The Catholic Monarchs left the fortress a day later, leaving instructions for the Canary Islander to have everything she needed after the birth. Abenchara remained in the fortress for almost another year, until her husband came to meet her on 15 August 1483, so they could return to the Canary Islands. They travelled from Córdoba to
Seville, where they observed that many Canary Islanders had been banished from the Canaries due to the actions of Pedro de Vera. Fernando. Abenchara asked for favourable treatment and managed to get more than forty of their relatives to return to the islands. It seems that Abenchara was also the mother of Guayarmina, later known as
Margarita Fernández Guanarteme. According to Roberto Hernández Bautista, in his work
Los Semidanes en Canarias, Abenchara repudiated her husband and remarried another Christianised Canary Islander named Juan de las Casas, who refused to go to
Tenerife for fear of being taken to
Castile and fled to the mountains. Pedro de Vera retaliated and enslaved Abenchara for the second time, taking her to
Jerez de la Frontera. After some eight years of captivity, her nephew Juan de Guzmán managed to free her, returning to
Gran Canaria. ==Memory==