ALFONSO VII, Emperor, King of Castile and León. - B. in 1126, d. in 1157, son of Urraca of Castile and of Raymond of Burgundy. After the death of this French prince, his mother entered into a second marriage, wedding Alfonso I, king of Aragon. The marriage was supposed to bring about, as happened three centuries later, the desired union of almost the entire peninsula, but the Pope refused the dispensation for kinship, ordering under penalty of excommunication the separation of the two princes, and the clergy too and finally the nobility declared themselves against the Aragonese. A. was so fortunate in his struggle against the Moors (from whom he took Almeria) and the Christian kingdoms (some of which he made tributary), that, eager for glory, he proclaimed himself emperor in the «cortes» of León in 1135. At the point of death he divided the kingdom among his sons, Sancho III (Castile) and Ferdinand II (León).
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Alfonso VII, Emperor, King of Castile and León
ALFONSO VII, IMPERATORE, RE DI CASTIGLIA E DI LEÓN
Also known as: Alfonso the Emperor; Spanish: Alfonso VII de Castilla y León; Latin: Imperator totius Hispaniae, Alfonsus VII
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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I (1948), col. 854.
More by Giuseppe Pou y Marti: Alfonso VI, King of Castile and León, called the Brave · Alfonso VIII of Las Navas, King of Castile · Alfonso V, King of Asturias and León, called the Noble · Alfonso XI, King of Castile and León · Alfonso IV, King of Asturias and León, called the Monk
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Pou, y Marti Giuseppe. “Alfonso VII, imperatore, re di castiglia e di león.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, col. 854. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948. https://azioneromana.com/article/alfonso-vii-imperatore-re-di-castiglia-e-di-leon.
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Pou, y Marti Giuseppe. “Alfonso VII, imperatore, re di castiglia e di león.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948, col. 854. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/alfonso-vii-imperatore-re-di-castiglia-e-di-leon.
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