One of the miracles Alfonso relates is his own healing in Puerto de Santa María.[22]. Biography of Alfonso XI. Pedigree report of King Alfonso VII, "The Good" Raimúndez (de Leon & Castile ), son of Raymond de Bourgogne and Queen Urraca de Portugal (de Bourgogne), born on March 1st, 1105 in Spain. Alfonso XI of Castile (1311 - 1350), called the Avenger (el Justiciero), was the king of Castile, León and Galicia. The Emir, however, did not take advantage of the victory since he had to rush back to Africa because of the death of his son. [83] Agnes and the king's next wife, Constance, were cousins in the third degree, both of them descendants of William III, Duke of Aquitaine. [71] His body was taken to the locality of Sahagún, and was buried in the Royal Monastery of San Benito, thus fulfilling the wishes of the monarch. [35], His great territorial expansion came at the expense of the Taifa Muslim kingdoms. Alfonso X. Alfonso X (1221-1284) was king of Castile and León from 1252 to 1284. Alfonso IX (15 August 1171 – 23 or 24 September 1230) was king of León and Galicia from the death of his father Ferdinand II in 1188 until his own death. He renounced his claim to Germany in 1275, and in creating an alliance with the Kingdom of England in 1254, his claim on the Duchy of Gascony as well. He renounced his claim to Germany in 1275, and in creating an alliance with the Kingdom of England in 1254, his claim on the Duchy of Gascony as well. Their raid of the region failed, and they withdrew under harassment by the troops of Fáñez.[36]. Under his reign there was a considerable increase of Regal powers and legal strengthening of the figure of the King against the nobility. The local Navarrese nobility decided that the throne was not to be inherited by the king's son, who was still a minor, but rather by one of the grandsons of Sancho III of Pamplona: Alfonso VI or Sancho Ramírez of Aragon, both of whom invaded the Kingdom of Navarre. [1] The third child and second daughter, Elvira, may have been born in 1039–40,[1] followed by Alfonso in 1040–41,[1] and finally the youngest of the siblings, García, sometime between 1041 and 24 April 1043, the date on which King Ferdinand I, in a donation to the Abbey of San Andrés de Espinareda, mentions his five children. Ferdinand I (c. 1015 – 24 December 1065), called the Great (el Magno), was the Count of Castile from his uncle's death in 1029 and the King of León after defeating his brother-in-law in 1037. Alfonso X of Castile (1252-1284) was a true philosopher-king, a medieval monarch whose contributions to science, music, historiography, poetry, fiction, and art have had lasting influence. The first skirmish was the Battle of Llantada,[23] a trial by ordeal in which both brothers agreed that the one who was victorious would obtain the kingdom of the defeated brother. 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