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Ramiro II of León

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When Sancho died in 929 his kingdom was absorbed by Alfonso IV, but in a quick succession of events taking place in Leon and Zamora, Ramiro forced the abdication of Alfonso IV, and had him and Fruela II's three sons blinded in order to make them incapable of ruling.
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Ramiro II married twice. His first wife was a member of the Galician nobility and his first cousin, Adosinda Gutiérrez, daughter of Gutier Osóriz and Ildonzia Menéndez (a sister of Ramiro's mother, queen Elvira Menéndez, and also aunt of
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With the successive deaths of García I (914) and Ordoño (924), these were re-consolidated, Fruela ruling the entirety of what would thenceforth be referred to as the
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was crowned but proved unable to extend his power to the entire kingdom and was marginalized by his cousins the three sons of Ordoño II, who had the backing of the
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from 931 until his death. Initially titular king only of a lesser part of the kingdom, he gained the crown of León (and with it,
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and of that tale's hero, Mudarra González. Subsequent elaboration of this legend gave further supposed descendants among the
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by giving Ramiro and Ortega a daughter Ortega Ramírez, who is made to marry Gustios Gonzalez, grandfather of the legendary
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independence. Still in 950 Ramiro launched an expedition to the valley of the Edge and defeated the Cordovan Umayyads at
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While this Maia founder is a historical individual, contemporary documents indicate his father was named Lovesendo.
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Ramiro stood out as an excellent military commander, and expanded his territories south to a remarkable extent (
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descended into a period of successional crises among the royal family and their supporters from the regional
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In the last years of his reign, he lost the support of his Pamplona brother-in-law/son-in-law
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Maia family. This Maia tradition was subsequently linked to another legend, that told in the
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due to his ferocity and fervor in battle. He defeated the hosts of the
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supported by the Galician nobility, while Elvira, Sancho and his son
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relied on support from Urraca's relatives in Pamplona and Córdoba.
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in León, and Ramiro II in the newly conquered lands to the south (
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Burials in the Royal Pantheon at the Basilica of San Isidoro
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aristocracies. The kingdom was initially partitioned, with
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García is referred to as Ramiro's son-in-law by chronicler
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The World of El Cid: Chronicles of the Spanish Reconquest
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Ramiro figures prominently in the romantic poem, the
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a machine-translated version of the Spanish article.
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King
León
Alfonso IV
Ordoño III
León
Basilica of San Isidoro
Adosinda Gutiérrez
Urraca of Pamplona
Issue
Ordoño III
Teresa Ramírez
Sancho I
Elvira
Dynasty
Astur-Leonese dynasty
Ordoño II of León
Elvira Menéndez
Chalcedonian Christianity
Ordoño II
King of León

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