X-Nico

unusual facts about Alfonso X



Abu Yusuf Yaqub ibn Abd Al-Haqq

Alfonso X arrived back in Castile at the end of the year and negotiated a truce with Abu Yusuf Yaqub.

His father, Alfonso X fled to Seville, his support reduced to the Muslim-heavy districts of Andalusia and Murcia.

The Christian king Alfonso X of Castile had thrown his weight behind the Ashqilula - in part because the Nasrids themselves had sheltered Castilian rebels.

No sooner was this done, that the attention of the Muslim parties turned towards Marinid Algeciras which Alfonso X had decided to take for himself.

Now it was the turn of the Marinids to forge an alliance with Alfonso X of Castile.

Pedro Muñoz

Alcaraz aimed to populate strategic locations resulting in the village being founded in 1284, the year of the death of King Alfonso X (the Wise) of Castile, whose son Sancho IV succeeded to the throne.

Pelagius of Oviedo

The Chronicon regum Legionensium and the revised chronicle of Sampiro influenced the later authors of the Chronica Adefonsi imperatoris and the Chronica naierensis, and also Lucas de Tuy, Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada, and Alfonso X.

Rociana del Condado

In 1262, thanks to the conquest of Niebla by Alfonso X, Taifa territory became part of the Castilian kingdoms, so the subject population was overwhelmingly Christian culture, that still reigned in Castile.

Zafra

During the Reconquista, Zafra was captured twice by Christian forces, first in 1229 by Alfonso IX, and then definitely by Ferdinand III, in a campaign through present-day Extremadura described in Alfonso X's Crónica General de España (General History of Spain).


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Airas Nunes

It is thought that he may have collaborated in the composition of the Cantigas de Santa Maria of Alfonso X the Wise.

Alvaro Obertos de Valeto

Genoese family of Fíeseos who participated in the capture of Seville and Jerez in the service of Kingdom of Castile Fernando III and Alfonso X. His parents were Francisco de Morla and Francisca Martinez Obertos de Valeto, the daughter of Miguel Vargas Obertos de Valeto and Juana and Martinez Trujillo.

Galician-Portuguese lyric

In addition to these there is the priceless collection of over 400 Galician-Portugues cantigas in the Cantigas de Santa Maria, which tradition attributes to Alfonso X, in whose court (as nearly everywhere in the Peninsula) Galician-Portuguese was the only language for lyric poetry (except for visiting Occitan poets).

Henry I of Navarre

Henry initially sought to recover territory lost to Castile by assisting the revolt of Philip, brother of Alfonso X of Castile, in 1270, but eventually declined, preferring to establish an alliance with Castile through the marriage of his son Theobald to Violant of Castile, daughter of Alfonso X. This failed with the death of the young Theobald after he fell from a battlement at the castle of Estella in 1273.

Juan Manuel

Juan Manuel, Prince of Villena (1282–1349), son of the above, nephew of King Alfonso X el Sabio

Libros del saber de astronomía

The Libros del saber de astronomía del rey Alfonso X de Castilla (Books of wisdom of astronomy of King Alfonso X of Castile) is a literary work of the medieval period, composed during the reign of Alfonso X of Castile.

Maria Rosa Calvo-Manzano

She has also been recognized with numerous national and international prizes and decorated by the King of Spain with "El Lazo de Isabel la Católica" and "La Encomienda de Alfonso X el Sabio".