RISE OF CASTILE (739-1037 A.D.)
739-757 Alfonso I of Leon erects fortresses (castella) in the ancient province of Cantabria, called in the eighth century Bardulia, and then Castile.
860 Rodrigo, count of Castile.
866 Diego Rodriguez, Porcellos, count.
882 Burgos founded.
Gonzalo Fernandez.
Nuño Fernandez.
932 Fernan Gonsalez revolts against Ramiro II of Leon and is defeated and captured by him, but is restored to office. His daughter Urraca marries Ramiro’s son Ordoño (III).
950 Revolt of Fernan against Ordoño III with whose brother Sancho he invades Leon, but is repulsed. Ordoño repudiates Urraca. She marries the son of Alfonso IV of Leon, afterwards Ordoño IV. Fernan Gonsalez is credited by the older writers with great achievements in the struggle with the Moors.
970 Garcia Fernandez, count. His son Sancho Garces rebels against him. The story of the infantes De Lara, their betrayal to the Moors, their murder and the vengeance taken by their half-brother Mudarra, belongs to this reign.
995 The Cordovans defeat and capture Garcia. He dies of his wounds. Sancho Garces, count.
1021 Garcia, count.
1026 Birth of Ruy, or Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar, called el Cid Campeador (the Lord Champion). Garcia betrothed to the daughter of Alfonso V of Leon with the promise of the title of king. Garcia murdered at the wedding. Sancho the Great of Navarre annexes the northern part of Castile and assumes the sovereignty of the whole in right of his wife, Muña Elvira, Garcia’s sister; and on his death his son
1035 Ferdinand (I) the Great becomes king of Castile with the district between the Pisuerga and the Cea, which had been conquered from Leon by Sancho the Great and which Bermudo III attempts to recover, but is slain in the
1037 Battle of Carrion. Ferdinand, as the husband of Bermudo’s sister, succeeds to the kingdom of Leon, after a slight resistance from the population.