Alfonso X (Dictionary of World Biography: The Middle Ages)
Early Life
Alfonso X was born the eldest of fourteen children. His father was the revered Ferdinand III, who took advantage of rapidly moving events and expanded his double kingdom of Castile and León into the rich and densely populated regions of southern Spain. Alfonso’s grandfather Alfonso VIII had won a most decisive battle in the centuries-long war between Christians and Moors for control of the Iberian Peninsula. This victory by Christians at Las Navas de Tolosa in 1212 made it possible for Ferdinand III to capture the major cities of Córdoba (1236), Jaén (1246), and...
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