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Oldest son of Alfonso VII. Although his father was king of Castile, León, and Galicia, Sancho only inherited Castile, with León and Galicia going to his younger brother Ferdinand. (Castile , León, and Galicia would be later re-united in 1230 under Ferdinand III.) Alfonso VIII: The Noble 31 August 1158 6 October 1214 Oldest son of Sancho III.
For example, in a raid on Lisbon in 1189 the Almohad caliph Yaqub al-Mansur took 3,000 female and child captives, and his governor of Córdoba took 3,000 Christian slaves in a subsequent attack upon Silves in 1191; an offensive by Alfonso VIII of Castile in 1182 brought him over two-thousand Muslim slaves. [119]
Jun 1, 2020 · Alfonso VIII of Castile is one of the best-known kings of the so-called “Spanish Reconquest,” or, rather, the Iberian Middle Ages. However, as Teófilo Ruiz points out in his introduction to this volume, the seminal work of Julio González—El Reino de Castilla en la época de Alfonso VIII (Madrid, 1960)—on his reign has overshadowed any other research on this crucial period in the past ...
Alfonso (1359–1362). Peter forced the Cortes to recognize Alfonso as his legitimate heir on 29 April 1362. However, Alfonso, a very sickly child, died at the age of three, months after his recognition as Crown Prince. Peter had one son with Juana de Castro: John (1355–1405), married doña Elvira de Eril, had issue. [21]
Alfonso was born to Sancho III of Castile and Blanche, in Soria on 11 November 1155. [7] He was named after his grandfather Alfonso VII of León and Castile, who divided his kingdoms between his sons. This division set the stage for conflict in the family until the kingdoms were re-united by Alfonso VIII's grandson, Ferdinand III of Castile. [8]
Sancho III of Castile and Ferdinand II of León and Galicia, from a Privilegium Imperatoris of Alfonso VII of León and Castile. Ferdinand's education was entrusted to a Galician magnate, Count Fernando Pérez de Traba, member of the same lineage as the former knights of his grandmother, Queen Urraca, and of the tutors and defenders of his father, King Alfonso VII.
Life. Berengaria was born in Seville at the end of 1253, and her first years were spent in that city, being cared for by a noble named Don Romero. In the Cortes of Toledo in 1254 she was recognized as heir presumptive due to the lack of male descent from King Alfonso X. In the fall of 1254, Queen Violante gave birth a second daughter, Beatrice, prompting Alfonso X to consider the possibility ...
