Aragón. The nobles chose another candidate in the dead king's brother, Ramiro II. Alfonso responded by reclaiming La Rioja and "attempted to annex the...
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Queen Urraca of León, a passionate woman unsuited for a subordinate role. The marriage had been arranged by her father Alfonso VI of León in 1106 to unite...
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Imperator totius Hispaniae (section Kings of León)
"imperial idea" was still alive at León after Alfonso VII. Besides the case of Elvira Ramírez, regent of Ramiro III of León, who was styled bassilea once during...
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Jimena Díaz (category 11th-century people from the Kingdom of León)
Sevilla-Quiñones de León, Margarita Cecilia (1999). Linajes nobiliarios de León y Castilla: Siglos IX-XIII (in Spanish). Salamanca: Junta de Castilla y León, Consejería...
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inherited the Kingdom of León, "the most extensive, valuable and emblematic part: the one that contained the cities of Oviedo and León, cradles of the Asturian-Leonese...
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brother Ramiro II of León. (Date unknown).The County of Castile splits from the Kingdom of León. 932 June. The Córdobans defeat Ramiro II of León at the...
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El Cid (category 11th-century people from the Kingdom of León)
at the court of Ferdinand the Great and served Ferdinand's son, Sancho II of León and Castile. He rose to become the commander and royal standard-bearer...
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Asturias transitioned into the Kingdom of León in 924, when Fruela II of Asturias became king with his royal court in León. The kingdom originated in the western...
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the following children: Urraca, queen of León from 931 until 951 as the wife of Ramiro II; Onneca, queen of León from 926 until 931 as the wife of Alfonso...
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Reconquista (section Kingdom of León (910–1230))
González of Castile and Ramiro II of León had cooperated to defeat the Muslims at the Battle of Simancas (939), Fernán attacked Ramiro soon after and the Leonese–Castilian...
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