daughters of Count Pelayo González. Ordoño III died at Zamora in 956. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ordoño III of León. Collins, Roger (1983). Early...

kingdoms during the period. Ordoño III's half-brother and successor, Sancho the Fat, had been deposed by his cousin Ordoño IV. Together with his grandmother...

and successor of Ordoño I. After his death, the Kingdom of Asturias was split between his sons, with García inhereting León, Ordoño inhereting Galicia...

Umayyad alliance on Sancho's behalf in 960, and Ordoño was forced out. Upon losing his throne, Ordoño fled first to Asturias, then Burgos, where he abandoned...

obesity. He was replaced by Ordoño the Wicked from 958 to 960. Sancho had refused to respect the peace that the late Ordoño had agreed with the Cordovans...

his father Ordoño and his grandfather Ramiro, making his father Ordoño III and not Ordoño IV, the son of Alfonso. Controversy also exists over the identity...

Galicia to Ordoño. Alfonso III died in the city of Zamora on December 20, 910. Garcia I kept distant and combative relations with his brother Ordoño. When...

prevailed, he confirmed Ordoño in his heretofore provisional position.[citation needed] After his father's death in 850, Ordoño succeeded his father as...

capital of the kingdom of Astures to León. His successor was Ordoño II of León (914–924). Ordoño II was also a military leader who brought expeditions from...

I receiving León, Ordoño II Galicia and Fruela II the Asturian heartland. With the successive deaths of García I (914) and Ordoño (924), these were re-consolidated...