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  The Reconquest.
791 to 842: Alfonso II conquers a number of strongholds and settles the lands south of the river Duero.
Alfonso VIII of Castile, helped by Sancho VIII of Navarre, Pedro II of Aragon and some troops from Portugal and Leon, is victorious in the battle of Las Navas de Tolosa.
1469: Isabel I of Castile and Fernando II of Aragon are married, thus cunsummating the unity of Spain.
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  Alfonso VI of Castile - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
Sancho, Alfonso's designated successor, was slain at the battle of Ucles in 1108.
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 List of Castilian monarchs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fruela II of Asturias 910-925 and of Galicia and León 924-925
Alfonso VII of Castile, (1105-1157), the Emperor - 1126-1157
Isabella I of Castile 1474-1504 (wife of Ferdinand II of Aragon)
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 Encyclopedia: Afonso III of Portugal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
He was the second son of King Afonso II of Portugal and his wife, Urraca of Castile; he succeeded his brother, King Sancho II of Portugal in 1247.
Since Sancho II was not a popular king, the order was not hard to enforce; he was exiled in Castile and Afonso III became king in 1247.
Afonso, prince of Portugal (1263-1312), married to princess Violante of Castile (daughter of Juan Manuel of Castile).
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 ipedia.com: Sancho II of Portugal Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Sancho II of Portugal, the Pious, fourth king of Portugal, born in September 8 1207 in Coimbra, was the oldest son of Afonso II of Portugal by his wife, princess Urraca of Castile.
Sancho became king in 1233 and was succeeded his brother, king Afonso III in 1247.
Sancho II was removed from the throne in 1247 and fled to exile in Toledo where he died in January 4 1248.
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 History of Spain   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Sancho III of Navarre - a man of considerable military skill - placed his son Fernando on the throne of the County of Castile in 1028, propelling Christian Spain yet further into the south.
Because the tradition of primogeniture did not yet exist in Spain, upon Fernando's death in 1065 his lands were divided among his sons, Alfonso VI of Castile, Sancho II of Castile, and García of Galicia.
Sancho's death in 1072 meant that Alfonso VI had the superior claim, and he returned to power, once again in command of all of Fernando I's domains.
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 Alfonso VI on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
He inherited León from his father, Ferdinand I. Defeated by his brother Sancho II of Castile, he fled to the Moorish court of Toledo.
After Sancho's assassination (1072) Alfonso succeeded to the throne of Castile and took Galicia from his brother García (1073).
The mechanics of monarchy: knighting Castile's king, 1332.
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 History of Castile and Leon - IBWiki
Sancho III of Navarre - a man of considerable military skill - placed his son Fernando on the throne of the County of Castilla in 1028, propelling Christian Spain yet further into the south.
These effects, combined with the expulsion of Castile and Leon's most economically vital classes in the late 15th century (the Jews and the Moors), caused Castile and Leon's economy to collapse several times in the 16th century, bringing the Golden Age of Castile and Leon to a close.
In Western Sahara and European Castile, the monarchist movement did not prospered and a new Republican constitution was proclaimed as the Republic of Castile.
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 BATTLES OF CASTILE & LEON
Sancho II of Castile defeats his brother, Alfonso VI of Leon over the Carrión River.
The heir of the throne (Sancho) dies at the battle, and the almoravids conquest the cities of Consuegra, Cuenca, Ocaña and Hueste.
The kings of Portugal (Sancho II) and León (Alfonso IX) fail to conquer to the Moors this Portuguese city.
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 Chapter 2: St. James's Catapult
Sancho in his turn was dethroned by the third brother, [32] Alfonso, in October 1072, and it was thus the latter who reunited all the dominions of his father and as Alfonso VI ruled over a kingdom of León, Castile and Galicia from then until his death in 1109.
In 1071 García was defeated, dethroned and imprisoned by his brothers Sancho II of Castile and Alfonso VI of León, who jointly ruled the kingdom of Galicia until Sancho's murder in 1072, after which Alfonso ruled it alone.
Sancho el Mayor's initiative had been taken further by his son Fernando I, who at some date between 1053 and his death in 1065 had bound himself to pay an annual census to the monks of Cluny, set at the very considerable sum of 1,000 gold pieces, in return for their intercession.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Castile and Aragon
Sancho, who inherited the Kingdom of Castile, began encroaching upon the rights of his brothers, but was assassinated at the siege of Zamora, which he was trying to take from his sister Urraca, and was succeeded by Alfonso VI.
Sancho Ramírez (1069-94) took a great part of the deep valley of the Cinca from the Moors, with the strongholds of Barbastro and Monzon, and died while besieging Huesca.
John II disturbed the peace of his reign by the unjust persecution of his son the Prince of Viana, and at his death was succeeded by Ferdinand the Catholic, who by his marriage to Isabella the Catholic definitively united the Kingdoms of Castile and Aragon.
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 Ferdinand of Castile and Leon - Eustache de Champagne
King Alfonso VII the Emperor of Castile and Leon and Princess Rixa (Richenza Ryksa) of Poland.
She was married to King Alfonso II Raimundez of Aragon on 18 Jan 1174 in Aragon, Spain.
King Sancho III Alfonsez of Castile was born in 1135 in Castile, Spain.
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 Castiles & Leon
Alfonso was married to Eleanor, daughter of Henry II of England.
Ferdinand III, 1199—1252, Spanish king of Castile (1217—52) and León (1230—52), son of Alfonso IX of León and Berenguela of Castile.
Sancho IV (Sancho the Brave), 1257?-1295, Spanish king of Castile and León (1284—95), son and successor of Alfonso X. On the death (1275) of his elder brother, Ferdinand de la Cerda, Sancho was designated as Alfonso's successor by a coalition of nobles.
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Alfonso VI Alfonso VI, 1030-1109, Spanish king of León (1065-1109) and Castile (1072-1109).
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Charles VI Charles VI (Charles the Mad or Charles the Well Beloved), 1368-1422, king of France (1380-1422), son and successor of King Charles V. During his minority he was under the tutelage of his uncles (particularly Philip the Bold, duke of Burgundy), whose policies drained the royal treasury and provoked popular uprisings in...
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 COON-KUHN - STEADMAN Connections   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
FERNANDO II KING OF LEON was born in 1145 in Spain.
ALFONSO VII KING OF LEON & CASTILE was born in 1104/5 in Castile, Spain.
Sancho I KING OF PORTUGAL was born in 1154.
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 Articles - Reconquista   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
His son Sancho II of Castile wanted to reunite the kingdom of his father and attacked his brothers, with a young noble at his side: Rodrigo Díaz (later known as El Cid Campeador).
Sancho was killed while in the siege of Zamora by the traitor Bellido Dolfos in 1072.
Sancho Ramírez I gave Aragon international recognition, as united Aragon and Navarre, expanded the borders south, deep in the valleys conquering Huesca in 1096 and building a fort 25 km away from Saragossa.
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 1008 - 1086 Taifa Kingdoms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Count Ermengol II of Urgel is left as governor on behalf of Sancho Ramirez of Aragon.
The governor, Count Ermengol II of Urgel, is killed in a sortie, and a few days later the city falls, whereupon the Spanish and French garrison is put to the sword thus bringing an end to Pope Alexander II's prototype crusade.
Sancho II of Castile defeats his brother, Alfonso VI of León over the Carrión River (9 miles south of the city of Santa maria de Carrion - the capital of the Beni-Gomez - Christian counts of Saldaña, Liebana, Carrion, and Zamora).
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 History of Spain information - Search.com
Sancho III of Navarre — a man of considerable military skill — placed his son Ferdinand on the throne of the county of Castile in 1028, propelling Christian Spain yet further into the south.
Philip II died in 1598, and was succeeded by his son Philip III, in whose reign a ten year truce with the Dutch was overshadowed in 1618 by Spain's involvement in the European-wide Thirty Years' War.
Although the former queen, Isabella II was still alive, she recognized that she was too divisive as a leader, and abdicated in 1870 in favor of her son, Alfonso, who was duly crowned Alfonso XII of Spain.
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 El Cid
1000 to 1033: Sancho III of Navarre subdues the counties of Aragon, Sobrarbe and Ribagorza, takes possession of the County of Castile and makes an arrangement with Bermudo III of Leon with the idea of taking away his dominions from him and proclaiming himself as emperor.
But Sancho, who now held the Kingdom of Castile, thought he should have it all since he was the eldest and worked toward taking the lands from his siblings.
Grew up in the household of the future king, Sancho II of Castile, who did this out of gratitude for the services of Rodrigo's father to the State.
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 Vikings and Feudal Europe 900-1095 by Sanderson Beck
Heinrich II was born May 6, 973 and energetically tried to protect people's rights against their lords by traveling around to dispense justice, though he was quite busy fighting wars to maintain his empire.
Conrad II was crowned Emperor at Rome in 1027.
Gunnhild died of a pestilence in Italy, and Conrad II died of illness at Utrecht in 1039.
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 My Family
Richard II (King of England) was born on 6 Jan 1367 in Bordeaux, France.
Richard II (King of England) and Anne of Bohemia were married on 20 Jan 1382 in Westminster Palace, London, England.
Richard II (King of England) and Isabella of France were married on 1 Nov 1396 in Calais.
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 A BRIEF HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL SPAIN
And from the death of Sancho VI., in 1234, to the death of Charles the Bad, in 1387, one hundred and fifty years, the history of Navarre is that of France.
Sancho meanwhile had turned his arms against his brother Garcia, whom he dispossessed of his territories; against his sister Elvira, who met with a similar fate, and, lastly, against his sister Urraca, who withstood him boldly in her city of Zamora.
Garcia of Castile was slain by the sword of the Velas.
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 al- S^D [IX:533a]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
It is known that in 1064 he distinguished himself, on the side of Sancho II of Castile in a war which this sovereign waged against Sancho of Navarre.
The new king of Castile always secretly felt a grudge against Rodrigo Díaz for the humiliation of this oath, but in order to conciliate the knight, then very influential, and to attach him to him, he gave him his cousin Jimena (Chimène) Díaz, the daughter of the Count of Oviedo, in marriage (1074).
II 486/July 1093, the Cid marched on the capital with the whole of his army, seized without difficulty the suburbs of Villanueva and of al-Kudya and agreed to make terms with Ibn
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 2. Castile. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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.
In the course of the 11th century, French influence began to penetrate the peninsula.
The Cluniacs, already (1033) strong in Catalonia, Castile, and Aragon, reinforced French influence and stimulated clerical reform and the Reconquest.
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 El Cid   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Prince Sancho was the eldest son of King Ferdinand I.
Sancho was given Castile, Alfonso was given Leon, Garcia was given Galicia, Urraca was given Zamora, and Elvira was given Toro.
When prince Sancho became King Sancho II in 1065, he gave Rodrigo the highest position at court.
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 The Periphery of Francia: Spain, Britain, Eastern Europe, & Scandinavia
Also, the text refers to the daughter of Sancho García of Castile who marries Sancho III of Navarre as "Mayor" [p.687], even though the diagram calls her "Elvira" and "Mayor" is elsewhere given in the text as the heiress of Ribagorza [p.690].
Sancho I of León (955-958) thus might be considered Sancho I of Castile instead, especially given the co-numbering of the Kings of León and Castile.
Teobaldo II The marriage of Blanca of Navarre to Theobald of Champagne means that for a while the Counts of Champagne become the Kings of Navarre.
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