Walker, Rose, "Leonor of England, Plantagenet queen of King Alfonso VIII of Castile, and her foundation of the Cistercian abbey of Las Huelgas. In Imitation of Fontrevaud?" Journal of Medieval History 31, (2005), 346-68. Weiss, Stefan, Die Urkunden der papstlichen Legaten von Leo IX. ...
Recycling the Troubadours in Hebrew: Todros Abulafia, Hebrew Troubadour at the Court of Alfonso X Troubadours both Provencal and Galician Portuguese were regulars at the court of Alfonso X of Castile-Leon (1252-1284). The "Learned King" himself was a prolific composer of Galician-Portuguese vers...
Alfonso X was the king of Castile and Leon from 1252 to 1284. Alfonso’s father, Ferdinand III, conquered Andalusia and imposed tribute on the remaining Muslim states in Spain—Murcia and Granada. His mother, Beatrice, was granddaughter of the Holy Roman
Alfonso was born and brought up in the brilliantCastiliancourt at Medina del Campo. When he was 16, his father became king of Aragon, and he himself went to live there. Three years later (1415) he married his cousin María, the daughter of Henry III ofCastile, but she produced no child...
Alfonso X of Castile the Learned King (1221-1284). An International Symposium, Harvard University, 17 November 1984, Cambridge, Department of Harvard University 1990, 165 pp., ill., ind. ( Harvard Studies in Romance Languages , 43). No metrics data to plot. The attempt to load metrics ...
Alfonso VIIICistercianCastileIn 1187 Alfonso VIII of Castile and his queen, Leonor of England, founded a Cistercian nunnery, Santa Maria Regalis de Las Huelgas, on the outskirts of Burgos. Despite the clear allegiance of the foundation to the Cistercians from the outset, the idea that the ...
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King Alfonso VIII of Castiledoi:10.1515/9780823284160GómezMiguelLincolnKyle C.SmithDamian J.de Ayala MartínezCarlosFordham University Press
King Alfonso VIII of Castile: Government, Family, and War ed. by Miguel Gómez, Kyle C. Lincoln and Damian Smith (review)doi:10.1353/dph.2021.0010FAMILIESMEDIEVAL civilizationMIDDLE AgesMOMENTS method (Statistics)EUROPEAN historyWard, Aengus
This paper commemorates the eighth centenary of the deaths of King Alfonso VIII of Castile and his Queen, Eleanor Plantagenet (d. 1214) who founded the Abbey of Santa Mar铆a la Real de Las Huelgas (Burgos) and were buried there. It examines how their grave goods were categorised and aims...