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Urraca
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Urraca Queen Urraca (c. 1078-1126), who ruled the Kingdom of Leon-Castilla (also...followed, with Fernando's eldest son, Alfonso VI, becoming king. Urraca Urraca was the daughter of King Alfonso VI and Queen Constance of Burgundy...
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Alfonso VI
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...king al-Mamun, departing in October 1072 after his sister Urraca had engineered the assassination of Sancho. Alfonso was now...30, 1109, leaving his realm in the hands of his daughter, Urraca, and in a state of insecurity and vulnerability from which...
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Henry of Burgundy
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...cousin Raymond, who was the husband of Alfonso's daughter Urraca. To Henry, Alfonso gave his illegitimate daughter Teresa and...to enhance his position by war and intrigues with and against Urraca, her son Alfonso (later Alfonso VII of Castile), and her...
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Panama
Encyclopedia entry from: Countries and Their Cultures
...business, especially banking and tourism, and by some people of African descent. Symbolism. Some coins bear the image of Urraca, an Indian chief who resisted the Spanish conquests, but most coins depict Vasco Nu ñ ez de Balboa, the discoverer...
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Alfonso I
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...territorial conquests. To secure peace with the new king of Le ó n, Ferdinand II, Alfonso offered him his daughter Urraca, whom Ferdinand married in 1165. Two years later, however, the kings quarreled and Alfonso invaded Galicia, the southern...
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Alfonso III
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...presided over the country's first parliaments. On May 5, 1210, Alfonso was born in Coimbra, the second son of Alfonso II and Urraca. In 1227 he went to France, where he fought as a vassal of Louis IX against Henry III of England and in 1238 married Matilda...
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Portugal
Encyclopedia entry from: World Education Encyclopedia
...Iberian Peninsula was once a unified region. At the end of the eleventh century, Afonso VI, King of Leon, married his daughter Urraca to Count Raymond of Burgundy. His other daughter, Tareja, who was illegitimate, was married to Henry of Burgundy. As a...
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The Cid
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Alfonso, the king of Le ó n, battled at Golpejera. Sancho won the day and forced Alfonso into exile. Their sister Urraca then began to conspire against Sancho at Zamora. Sancho besieged this city and was murdered there in October 1072. After the...
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Sancho II
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...72), son and successor of Ferdinand I. He conquered (1072) León from his brother Alfonso VI , but his sister Urraca rebelled against him at Zamora, and Sancho was assassinated while besieging the city. He was succeeded by Alfonso VI.
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Alfonso VII
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Alfonso VII (Alfonso the Emperor), 1104-57, Spanish king of Castile and León (1126-57), son and successor of Urraca . He recovered the places in Castile that his stepfather, Alfonso I of Aragón, had occupied and soon gained supremacy...
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