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Urraca appears as one of the main characters in the 2020 Amazon Prime Video Spanish television series El Cid, portrayed by actress Alicia Sanz . In the series, Urraca is presented as the highly intelligent, manipulative and scheming daughter of King Ferdinand, a young woman capable of doing whatever is necessary to achieve her goals.
After the assassination in 1029 of Count García Sánchez of Castile, King Sancho III of Pamplona, because of his marriage to Muniadona, García's sister, governed the county although he never held the title of count: [1] it was his son, Ferdinand Sánchez, the future King Ferdinand I of León who inherited the county from his mother. [2]
The following is the family tree of the Spanish monarchs starting from Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon till the present day. The former kingdoms of Aragon (see family tree), Castile (see family tree) and Navarre (see family tree) were independent kingdoms that unified in 1469 as personal union, with the marriage of the Catholic Monarchs, to become the Kingdom of Spain (de ...
of Asturias 1422–1424: Eleanor of Asturias 1423–1425: Alfonso Prince of Asturias 1453–1468: Isabella I Queen of Castile, Galicia, and León 1451–1504 r. 1474–1504: Ferdinand II of Aragon King of Castile, Galicia, and León 1452–1516 r. 1475–1504: Blanche II of Navarre 1424–1464: Henry IV the Impotent King of Castile, Galicia ...
In 1479, Ferdinand succeeded his father to the Crown of Aragon, uniting the realms by marriage, laying the foundation for the modern nation of Spain. On Isabella's death, as she was succeeded by their daughter Joanna I and her husband Philip I. Ferdinand, no longer king, then left the Castile and returned to Aragon.
The Portuguese-Leonese rivalry started with the Battle of Valdevez, in which Portuguese forces defeated the Leonese army.The successor of king Alfonso VII of León and Castile, king Ferdinand II of León, refused to acknowledge the Portuguese kingdom, as he proclaimed his right over Portugal, which led to the establishment of a fortress to conduct raids against the Portuguese.
Ferdinand I (c. 1015 – 24 December [1] 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. According to tradition, he was the first to have himself crowned Emperor of Spain (1056), and his heirs carried on the tradition.
The Victory Cross, a symbol of the Astur-Leonese dynasty. The Asturian or Astur-Leonese dynasty (Spanish dinastía asturiana or astur-leonesa, Asturian dinastía asturllionesa), known in Arabic as the Banī Adhfūnsh ("sons of Alfonso"), [1] was the ruling family of the kingdom of Asturias and León from 739 until 1037.