Bermudo (Vermudo) III of Leon, king of León (1010 – 4 September 1037), son of Alfonso V of Castile by his wife Elvira Menéndez, reigned 1027-1032 and 1035-1037. The city of León was founded by the Roman Seventh Legion (for unknown reasons always written as Legio Septima Gemina (twin seventh legion). It was the headquarters of that legion in the late empire and was a center for trade in gold which was mined at Las Médulas... Events The Ly Dynasty in Vietnam is established (or 1009). ... Jump to: navigation, search September 4 is the 247th day of the year (248th in leap years). ... // Events Construction of the church of Saint Sophia Cathedral is started in Kyiv. ... Alfonso V of Castile, king of Asturias and León, son of Bermudo II by his second wife Elvira of Castile, reigned 999-1027, and was the first who used the title of king of Castile. ... Jump to: navigation, search Elvira Menéndez of Galacia, (c. ... Jump to: navigation, search Events March 26 - Pope John XIX crowns Conrad II Holy Roman Emperor. ... Events February 2 - Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor, becomes King of Burgundy. ... Events Harthacanute becomes king of Denmark. ... // Events Construction of the church of Saint Sophia Cathedral is started in Kyiv. ...

In 1029 Count García Sánchez of Castile was about to be married to Sancha of León, the sister of Bermudo III, an arrangement apparently sanctioned by the king of Navarre, when the count was murdered in the city of León. Sancho el Mayor then claimed the county of Castile in his wifes name and installed in it their son, Fernando, as the new count of Castile. The Navarrese kings policy now became a mixture of aggrandizement sometimes ostensibly on behalf of his son and at other times simply in his own behalf. He seized the linguistic borderlands between the Cea and the Pisuerga rivers, long a bone of contention between León and Castile. After he had forced the marriage between Fernando and Sancha, Bermudo III's sister, in 1032, those lands went to Castile as part of her dowry. In 1034 he wrested the city of León itself from Bermudo, who retreated into Galicia, and began to style himself "Emperor" on his coinage. By the time Sancho died in 1035 the meseta north of the Duero was dominated by the mountain kingdom of Navarre. Navarre (Spanish Navarra, Basque Nafarroa) is an autonomous community and province of Spain. ... Sancho III (c. ...

However, for all of Sancho el Mayors diplomatic and military skill, one thinks that such a situation was essentially a fortuitous result of the youth of his opponents. Certainly the brute facts of geography and demography militated against its continuance. After his death, Bermudo III was immediately received back into León and soon began a campaign to recover from Castile and his brother-in-law the disputed territory between the Cea and Pisuerga. But Count Fernando defeated and killed Bermudo III at the battle of Tamarón on September 4, 1037. Since the latter died without an heir, the kingdom of León now recognized Sancha and her husband as its rulers, and Fernando was anointed king in the royal city on June 22, 1038. The dynasty of Navarra had triumphed perhaps, but the united realms of León-Castile with its rimlands of Asturias and Galicia had become the political center of the north Spanish, Christian society. Jump to: navigation, search June 22 is the 173rd day of the year (174th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 192 days remaining. ... Events Independent declaration of Western Xia. ...

Family

By his wife, Jimina of Castile, Bermudo had one child:

1. Alfonso

External Links

1. Justo Pérez de Urbel and Ricardo Del Arco y Garay, Historia de España, vol. 6, España cristiana, comienzo de la reconquista (711-I038), 2d ed. (Madrid, 1964)
2. Bernard F. Reilly, The Kingdom of León-Castilla under King Alfonso VI, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 1998