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	Alfonso VII of Castile
		Alfonso VII of Castile (March 1, 1104/5 - August 21, 1157), nicknamed the Emperor, was the king of Castile and Leon since 1126, son of Urraca of Castile[?] and Count Raymond (the third?) of Burgundy.
		Alfonso VII was crowned emperor in 1155 after the death of the Battler.
		Alfonso was at once a patron of the church, and a protector if not a favourer of the Muslims, who formed a large part of his subjects.
	ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/al/Alfonso_VII_of_Castile.html (259 words)

	Alfonso VI of Castile - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alfonso VI (before June 1040 – July 1, 1109), nicknamed the Brave, was king of León from 1065 to 1109 and king of Castile since 1072 after his brother's death.
		As he was the first Alfonso to be King of Castile he is sometimes referred to as Alfonso I of Castile.
		As the second and favorite son of King Ferdinand I of Castile, Alfonso was alloted Castile, while Leon was given to the eldest son Sancho, and Galicia to the youngest brother Garcia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alfonso_VI_of_Castile (851 words)

	Alfonso VI, Spanish king of Leon and Castile. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Alfonso VI, Spanish king of Leon and Castile.
		Alfonso was defeated again in 1108, and his only son died in the battle.
		Alfonso’s reign gave a great crusading impulse to the reconquest of Spain and was also notable for the exploits of the Cid.
	www.bartleby.com /65/al/Alfon6Sp.html (271 words)

	Encyclopedia: Alfonso VI of Castile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Combatants Almoravides Castile Commanders Sancho, son of Alfonso VI Strength Casualties Sancho {{{notes}}} The Battle of Ucles was fought in 1108 between Castile and the Almoravides.
		Alfonso VI "The Valiant" King of Castile And Leon [And Leon]/[And Leon] and Zaida (Isabel) Princess of...
		Alfonso VI "The Valiant" King of Castile And Leon [And Leon]/[And Leon] and Zaida (Isabel) Princess of Denia
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Alfonso-VI-of-Castile (2170 words)

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	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/vi.html (1537 words)

	2. Castile. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		The Cid, a Castilian originally in the service of Sancho II of Castile, later passed into that of Alfonso VI; he was exiled (1081); returned to Castilian service (1087–88); went over to the Muslim king of Saragossa after his second exile.
		Alfonso VII, crowned “emperor” (1135) on the basis of military ascendancy and an intense feeling of equality with rival monarchs, especially the Holy Roman emperors.
		Alfonso's death was followed by a minority and an eight-year dynastic crisis from which his son Alfonso VIII finally emerged as master.
	www.bartleby.com /67/476.html (809 words)

	The Kingdom of León-Castilla Under King Alfonso VI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Alfonso after all had interests in the eastern taifa himself at the same time and, as I suggested before, the exile of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar at the very end of 1080 or in the spring of 1081 was wonderfully convenient for that monarchs purposes too.
		Alfonso was, by implication, to receive the free disposition of all other mosques of the city and of their endowment, the property of al-Qadir became his possession including the royal palaces-fortresses of the city and realm, and all Muslim inhabitants were to pay him the annual head tax customarily due from those of another faith.
		Alfonso VI, we are told, having returned in haste to Toledo would have burned his queen and primate alive for so compromising him if it had not been for the intercession of the Muslim community which realized tat it would suffer in the long run from such an action.
	libro.uca.edu /alfonso6/alfonso9.htm (10251 words)

	Alfonso I - King of Aragon
		Alfonso el Batallador (the battler) was king of Aragon and Navarre, and, by his marriage in 1108 to Urraca, the widowed daughter and heir of Alfonso VI, was ruler of Castile, Leon, and Galicia.
		Alfonso of Aragon and the young Alfonso VII made the peace of Tameras in which Alfonso VII gained the lands of his grandfather, Alfonso VI.
		The Castilianist claim that Alfonso VI became emperor by right in 1085, and the rest claim that the revival of the idea of Spain being a continuation through the Visigothic state and symbolized in the capital of Toledo to be a later development.
	members.tripod.com /~Charlemagne64/alfonso.html (319 words)

	Chapter 11: The Kingdom of León-Castile under King Alfonso VI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Further to complicate Alfonso VI's relationship with the papacy was [216] Urban II's decision to reestablish the archbishopric of Tarragona, taken in the summer of 1089.
		Alfonso was doubtless informed of this action, and he appears to have visited Santiago de Compostela on January 28, 1090, to prepare the ground for the forthcoming decision.
		In it Alfonso VI stated that he took this action with the counsel, among others, of his son-in-law Count Raymond, and undoubtedly a major event of the council was the public recognition of the high position in the realm now accorded to the Burgundian.
	libro.uca.edu /alfonso6/alfonso11.htm (9039 words)

	Banks/Dean Genealogy - Person Page 58
		He married Queen Urraca of Castile and León, daughter of King Alfonso VI of Castile and León and Constance of Burgundy, between 1092 and 1093 at Toledo, Spain.
		She married second King Alfonso VI of Castile and León, son of King Fernando I of Castile and León "the Great" and Sancha of León, on 8 May 1081.
		The marriage of King Alfonso VI of Castile and León and Agnes of Aquitaine was annulled in 1080.
	www.gordonbanks.com /gordon/family/2nd_Site/geb-p/p58.htm (3364 words)

	Portugal on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Henry of Burgundy married an illegitimate daughter of Alfonso VI and became (1095?) count of Coimbra and later count of Portucalense.
		Alfonso's successors were faced with the tasks of recapturing Alentejo and Algarve from the Moors and of rebuilding the areas devastated by the long wars.
		Alfonso VI (1656-67), weak in mind and body, signed the crown away to his brother Peter II (1667-1706), who was first regent and then king.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/Portugal_History.asp (3847 words)

	Alfonso
		Alfonso VII of Castile -- (1126-1157) the Emperor
		Alfonso V of Aragon -- (1416-1458) The Magnanimous
		Alfonso XII of Spain -- (1857-1885) king of Spain
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/al/Alfonso.html (132 words)

	Old & New Castile Travel Guide \| Fodor's Online
		Castile is more accurately labeled Old and New Castile, the former (Castilla y León) north of Madrid, the latter (Castilla-La Mancha) south -- known as "New" because it was captured from the Moors a bit later.
		Many of the region's architects were similarly fanciful: Castile in the 15th and 16th centuries was the center of the plateresque, an ornamental stone-carving style of extraordinary intricacy, named for its resemblance to silverwork.
		Burgos was the 11th-century capital of Castile and the native city of El Cid ("Lord Conqueror"), Spain's legendary hero of the Christian Reconquest.
	fodors.com /miniguides/mgresults.cfm?destination=castile@260&... (510 words)

	CASTILE & LEON UNDER ALFONSO VI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		García was imprisoned and Alfonso united all the inheritance of Fernando I. During this second period, Alfonso repopulated the frontier lands: to do so, he received french inmigrants who settled at those lands: their influence carried out an important cultural task by Europeanizing Alfonso's dominions.
		Between 1086 and 1109 Alfonso suffered constant defeat by the Almoravids; in the last battle, that of UclÅs in 1108, he lost the cities of Consuegra, Cuenca, Ocaña and Hueste, and ho lost too his only son, Sancho.
		He arranged later for his daughter, Urraca, to marry Alfonso I of Aragon so that the war against the Almoravids should be continued after his death, even though it meant that Leon and Castile would be ruled by an Aragonese prince.
	es.geocities.com /endovelico2001/mapas/alfonsovi.html (503 words)

	Ancestors of Eugene Ashton ANDREW & Anna Louise HANISH Emperor Alfonso Castile SPAIN, VI ANDREW ANGERMUELLER HANISH ...
		CASTILE and LEON Reigned 1072-1109, Emperor of SPAIN Reigned 1077-1109.
		Alfonso was defeated by his brother in two battles; after the defeat at Llantada (1068) he managed to retain his kingdom, but after that at Golpejera (1072) he was captured and exiled, living for a short while at the court of his vassal Ma'mun, the Muslim king of Toledo.
		Alfonso suffered a terrible defeat by the Muslim ruler al-Mu`tamid of Seville in alliance with Yusuf ibn Tashufin, the Almoravid (Berber) emir of North Africa and his Saharan tribes on October 23 1086 at Zallaqah, near Badajoz.
	www.geneal.net /1654.htm (1052 words)

	boys clothing: European royalty--Portugal
		Alfonso VI of Castile wascthe most powerful Christian ruler in Spain, he declared himself as Emperor of "All Spain" (1077).
		Raymond of Burgundy married Dona Urraca daughter of Alfonso VI of Castile (1091).
		Alfonso VI made Henry of Burgandy Count of Portucale (1093) and granted Henry control of Portugal and Coimbra (1094).
	histclo.com /royal/por/royal-por.htm (1893 words)

	Leon
		ALFONSO IX, King of Leon in 1188, was born in 1166 and died in 1229.
		ALFONSO VII Raimond, King of Leon and Castile, Emperor of Spain, was born in 1103 and died in 1157.
		In 1074, she married Roderigo Diaz (see Castile), the Cid, King of Valencia del Cid, who was born at Divar about 1040 and died in 1099.
	www.royalancestorscollins.com /leon.htm (586 words)

	My Family
		Children were: Urraca of Castile and Leon, Alfonso VI (King of Castile and Leon).
		Parents: Alfonso VI (King of Castile and Leon) and Berenguela of Barcelona.
		Parents: Gusta VI Adolf (King of Sweden) and Margaret of Sweden (Crown Princess).
	sneakers.pair.com /roots/b23.htm (857 words)

	Medieval Spains: Seville
		Alfonso's expansionism continued with the siege of Zaragoza in 1086.
		Alfonso VI broke off his siege of Zaragoza and went to confront the Muslim army.
		However, when Alfonso VI seized the fortress of Aledo, thus cutting Seville and Granada off from the eastern provinces, a delegation of Andalusian notables implored Yusuf to return once again to the Iberian battlefield.
	medspains.stanford.edu /demo/seville (4670 words)

	D. Afonso Henriques (English Version)
		1135: Urraca's son, Alfonso VII, is crowned "Emperor of All Spain" at the Cathedral of León.
		But Alfonso VI prepares an attractive package as a wedding present: Henry takes Teresa and, to boot, he gets the Portuguese Province, west of Castile, that for sometime now has been entertaining thoughts of independence.
		Alfonso VI is more than a good and dedicated daddy, so he later tries to increase his power and dominion over additional territories.
	www.vidaslusofonas.pt /afonso_henriques2.htm (4107 words)

	AllRefer.com - Alfonso VI, Spanish king of LeOn and Castile (Spanish And Portuguese History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Alfonso VI, Spanish king of LeOn and Castile, Spanish And Portuguese History, Biographies
		Alfonso VI 1030–1109, Spanish king of LeOn (1065–1109) and Castile (1072–1109).
		He inherited LeOn from his father, Ferdinand I. Defeated by his brother Sancho II of Castile, he fled to the Moorish court of Toledo.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/A/Alfon6Sp.html (350 words)

	Valladolid, Spain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It was founded by Count Pedro Ansúrez on the left bank of the Pisuerga river, close to its merging with the Douro river, during the reign of Alfonso VI of Castile (11th Century).
		Segovia - This city is Spain and Castile at their best: twisting alleyways, the highest concentration of Romanesque churches in all of Europe, pedestrian streets where no cars are allowed - all surrounded by the city's medieval wall which itself is bordered by two rivers and an extensive green-belt park with miles of shaded walks.
		Founded by Count Pedro Ansúrez on the left bank of the Pisuerga river, close to its merging with the Douro river, during the reign of Alfonso VI of Castile (11th Century), Valladolid became important when it was the Court of the King of Castile at the end of the Middle Ages.
	www.ju.edu /academics/internationalEducation_abroad_dest_spain_valladolid.asp (625 words)

	Burgundy and Castile
		He md Urraca of Castile and Leon 1087, Toledo, Castile, Spain, daughter of Alfonso VI, King of Castile and Leon, and Constance of Burgundy.
		She md Alfonso IX, King of Leon, abt 1190, son of Fernando II, King of Leon, and Urraca of Portugal.
		She md Alfonso II, King of Aragon, 19 Jan 1174/75, Spain, son of Raymond Berenger IV, Marquis of Barcelona, and Petronilla of Aragon.
	www.geneajourney.com /burgcast.html (1378 words)

	At Oto's - Cantar de Mio Cid - The historical Alfonso VI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Alfonso was the second son of King Ferdinand I, and his acquisition of the Kingdom of León (1065) caused a struggle with his brother Sancho II, King of Castile; Alfonso was captured and exiled (1072).
		After Sancho's death, Alfonso was restored to his throne and inherited the Kingdom of Castile.
		Earlier hostilities between Alfonso and El Cid were reconciled, and Rodrigo successfully defended eastern Spain.
	www.gksdesign.com /atotos/cidreyalfonsohistorical.htm (229 words)

	COON-KUHN - STEADMAN Connections
		ALFONSO VI KING OF CASTILE was born in Jun 1040 in Spain.
		ALFONSO VI KING OF CASTILE and CONSTANCE OF BURGUNDY were married in 1081.
		SANCHO III KING OF CASTILE was born in 1134 in Castile, Spain.
	fp.enter.net /~mkuhn/b193.htm (8781 words)

	Banks/Dean Genealogy - Person Page 275
		Agnes of Aquitaine married King Alfonso VI of Castile and León, son of King Fernando I of Castile and León "the Great" and Sancha of León, in 1074.
		Bertha (?) married King Alfonso VI of Castile and León, son of King Fernando I of Castile and León "the Great" and Sancha of León, in 1092/93.
		Isabel (?) married King Alfonso VI of Castile and León, son of King Fernando I of Castile and León "the Great" and Sancha of León.
	www.gordonbanks.com /gordon/family/2nd_Site/geb-p/p275.htm (960 words)

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