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All kings hereafter were also kings of Castile: Ferdinand III the Saint: 30 July or 5 August 1199 11 December 1230 – 30 May 1252 30 May 1252 Oldest son of Queen Berengaria of Castile, ascending to King of Castile when his mother abdicated in his favor. Also from 1230, through his father, he was King of León and King of Galicia as well.
All kings hereafter were also kings of León: Ferdinand III: The Saint 30 August 1217 30 May 1252 Oldest son of Berengaria, ascending when his mother abdicated in his favor. Also from 1230, through his father, he was King of León and King of Galicia as well. The three kingdoms were thereafter dynastically bound together. Alfonso X: The Wise 30 ...
Alfonso of Leon, Lord of Molina 1264–1265 July 1281–1282 4 April 1284 husband's ascession: 25 April 1295 husband's death: 1 July 1321 Sancho IV: Constance of Portugal [2] [4] [7] Denis of Portugal 3 January 1290 23 January 1302 7 September 1312 husband's death: 18 November 1313 Ferdinand IV: Constance of Peñafiel [2] [4] [7]
Urraca (León, 24 June 1081 – Saldaña, 8 March 1126), called "the reckless" (la temeraria), [2] was Queen of León, Castile and Galicia from 1109 until her death. She claimed the imperial title as suo jure Empress of All Spain [3] and Empress of All Galicia. [4] She is considered to be the first European queen to reign in her own right.
Her father, Menendo, was a member of the curia regis of King Bermudo II of León and the tutor and co-regent, jointly with Queen Elvira Garcia, of Infante Alfonso, [3] [1] who later ruled as Alfonso V of León. Queen Elvira died on 2 December 1022 [4] and was buried in the Royal Pantheon of the Basilica of San Isidoro in León. [5]
Around 892, Elvira married Infante Ordoño, the son of King Alfonso III of Asturias, who first ruled as King of Galicia and later of León after the death of his brother García I in 914. Elvira confirmed numerous charters with her husband, many of these being privileges and donations to Galician nobles and religious establishments, especially ...
The final years of his reign were characterised by the growing independence of the Castilian and Galician nobility.. In 966, Sancho founded the monastery of San Pelayo in the city of León, consecrated in honour of the Cordovan martyr San Pelayo whose remains were transferred by the king to the capital of the kingdom of León, although they were later taken to Oviedo.
The family origins of Velasquita are uncertain. The inscription on a stone in the church in Deva, simply calls her filia Ranimiri ("daughter of Ramiro"). [1] [2] Manuel Risco, an 18th-century Spanish historian, believed that Velasquita was the daughter of King Ramiro II of León, [3] but Velasquita never appears in medieval charters as filia Ranimiri regis, [4] which would have been the custom ...