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Encyclopedia > Alphonso II of Asturias

Alfonso II (759-842, king 791), Alfonso I's reputed grandson, bears the name of "the Chaste."


The Arab writers who speak of the Spanish kings of the north-west as the Beni-Altons, appear to recognize them as a royal stock derived from Alfonso I.


The events of his reign are in reality unknown. Poets of a later generation invented the story of the secret marriage of his sister Ximena with Sancho, count of Saldana, and the feats of their son Bernardo del Carpio. Bernardo is the hero of a cantar de gesta (chanson de geste) written to please the anarchical spirit of the nobles.


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Galicia was allotted to Garcia II of Galicia.
In 1072, it was forcibly reannexed by Garcia's brother Alphonso VI of Castile, and from that time Galicia remained part of the kingdom of Castile and Leon, although under differing degrees of self-government.
The final episode of Galician independence, up to today, was the dynastic conflict between Isabella of Castile and Xoana, called "a beltranexa" ("Daugther of BeltrƔn", and not to be confused with Juana the Crazy (Joanna of Castile)).
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