This victory allowed the advance of the Leonine border of the Duero to the Tormes. In the last years of his reign he could not avoid Castilian independence under the direction of the count Fernán González, but still in 950 he launched an expedition to the valley of the Edge (950) and defeated the Muslims in Talavera.
900–951), son of Ordoño II, was King of León from 931 until his death.
Initially titular king only of a lesser part of Asturias, he gained the crown of León (and with it, Galicia) after his brother Alfonso IV abdicated in 931.
Ramiro was the creator of a Navarrese, Leonine and Aragonese coalition that defeated the Muslims in the Battle of Simancas (939).
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