Alfonso Vi Of Len
| Alfonso VI of Len and Castile "The Brave" Alfonso VI of Castilla y Len, "El Bravo" | |
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 Alfonso VI of Len and Castile Painting of the XII century , Cathedral of St. Jacques de Compostela | |
| Country |  Kingdom of Len |
| Title | King of Leon ( 1 065 - one thousand one hundred and nine ) King of Castile ( 1072 - 1109 ) King of Toledo ( 1085 - 1109 ) King of Galicia ( 1 090 - 1,109 ) Count of Portugal ( 1072 - 1093 ) |
| Predecessor | Ferdinand I (Len) Sancho II (Castile and Portugal) Garca II (Galicia) Al-Qadir (Toledo) |
| Successor | Urraca |
| Biography | |
| Birth | 1040 Toledo (?) |
| Deaths | 1109 Toledo |
| Child | Ferdinand I and Sancha of Len |
| Spouse | Ins of Aquitaine ( in 1069 - 1,077 ) Constance of Burgundy ( 1081 - 1093 ) Bertha of Burgundy ( 1093 - 1095 ) Zaida ( in 1098 - 1107 ) Beatrice ( 1 108 - 1 109 ) |
| Children | 2 nd marriage: - Urraca ( 1081 - 1126 ) - Elvira ( 1082 -?) 4 th marriage: - Sanchez ( 1 098 - 1108 ) - Elvira ( one thousand one hundred - 1 135 ) - Sancha ( 1101 -?) Illegitimate offspring: - Theresa de Leon ( 1 070 - one thousand one hundred thirty-two ) - Elvira ( one thousand and seventy-one - in 1151 ) |
| Mistresses | Jimena Muoz |
Alfonso VI of Castile and Leon Biography When Ferdinand I of Len, the father of Alfonso, died in 1065 , the kingdom was divided between his three son. Alfonso said the Brave, receives the kingdom of Len. After a fratricidal war with his elder brother, Sancho II , he established its power and manages to unify the kingdom Castilian. In 1069 , he paid tribute to Abbad III , King of Seville Dynasty Abbadides. With this success, he began the reconquest of Muslim Spain (or reconquista ), divided since the collapse of the Caliphate of Cordoba into independent principalities (the Taifa of the first period ). Supported by the monks of Cluny and Pope Gregory VII , Alfonso married Constance of Burgundy , called the knights of Burgundy. In 1085 , after eleven years of war and siege, the Muslims of Toledo capitulated and the heirs of the ancient kingdom Visigoth back in what was his capital. However, the princes Muslims call to their aid the Almoravids who cross the Strait of Gibraltar and rout Alfonso VI at the Battle of Sagrajas in October 1086. But the Almoravids fail to take advantage of their military victories, like those of Consuegra ( 1097 ) and Malagon ( 1100 ). The Cid , in the service of Alfonso, symbolizes the Christian resistance to Islam. Many novels of chivalry have shown his name. In the epic poem of the Cid, he plays the role assigned by the medieval poet the greatest kings and Charlemagne himself. He is alternately the oppressor and the victim heroic and stubborn - the ideal type of protector that sang the minstrels and troubadours. He is the hero of an epic which, like the primitive Spanish songs, songs of Bernardo del Carpio and the legend of the Infantes de Lara exist only in fragments embedded in the Chronicle of Alfonso the Wise. With a little indulgence, Alfonso VI is presented as a strong man who acts like a king whose interests are law and order and who is the leader of a nation at reconquest. Alfonso was married several times. Before Constance of Burgundy, he is betrothed to Agatha , daughter of William the Conqueror. Under the influence, they say, his wife Constance, he set the Cistercian Order in his kingdom, establishing them in Sahagn and chose a French Cistercian Bernard as the first archbishop of Toledo after the reconquest. He married his daughters Urraca , self, with Raymond of Burgundy , son of Count William I of Burgundy and Theresa de Leon , the illegitimate, with Henry of Burgundy, Count of Portugal. He also brings his kingdom to the papacy and decides to replace the old rite of Saint Isidore , the Mozarabic rite , the Roman rite. On the other hand, it is very open to the Arab influence, protects his subjects Moors and money fighting with inscriptions in Arabic letters. After the death of Constance, he may be married and has certainly lived with the Princess Zaida. His wife Isabelle is perhaps the princess converted to Christianity under the name Mary or Isabella. Marriages and descendants
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Preceded by Alfonso VI of Len Followed by Ferdinand I King of Leon (1065-1109) Urraca Sancho II King of Castile (1072-1109) Garcia King of Galicia (1090-1109) kingdom in the hands of Moslems King of Toledo (1085-1109)
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