CASTILE, King Fernando^[1]

1016 - 1065  (49 years)  Submit Photo / Document

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• Name	CASTILE, Fernando
  Prefix	King
  Nickname	'El Magno"
  Birth	2 May 1016	Castile-León, Espagne
  Gender	Male
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  Death	27 Dec 1065	London, Middlesex, England
  Burial	Jan 1066	Basilica of San Isidoro, León, Spain
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  Person ID	I29018	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2021

  
  

  Father	NAVARRE, King Sancho III ,   b. 980, Navarra, Spain Navarra, Spaind. 15 Oct 1035 (Age 55 years)
  Mother	SANCHEZ, Countess Muniadona Mayor ,   b. 990, Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, España Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Españad. 13 Jul 1066, Frómista, Palencia, Castilla y León, Spain (Age 76 years)
  Marriage	1001	Castile, Spain   [2]
  Family ID	F16317	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	LON, Princess Sancha ,   b. 1013, London, Middlesex, England London, Middlesex, Englandd. 27 Nov 1067, León, Provincia de León, Castilla y León, Spain (Age 54 years)
  Marriage	Nov 1032	León, León, Spain
  Notes	MARRIAGE: Also shown as Married 1033
  Children	3 sons and 2 daughters
  1. CASTILE, Urraca ,   b. 1033, Burgos, Castile-León, Spain Burgos, Castile-León, Spaind. 1101 (Age 68 years)   2. CASTILE, King Sancho II ,   b. 1036, Burgos, Castile-León, Spain Burgos, Castile-León, Spaind. 7 Oct 1072, Zamora, Castile-León, Spain (Age 36 years)   3. CASTILE, Elvira ,   b. 1038, Burgos, Castile-León, Spain Burgos, Castile-León, Spaind. 15 Nov 1101, Burgos, Spain (Age 63 years) + 4. CASTILE, King Alfonsez VI ,   b. Jun 1040, Burgos, Castile-León, Spain Burgos, Castile-León, Spaind. 1 Jul 1109, Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain (Age 69 years)   5. King Garcia ,   b. 1042, Burgos, Castile-León, Spain Burgos, Castile-León, Spaind. 22 Mar 1090 (Age 48 years)
  Family ID	F16316	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

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• Notes

  King of Castile (1033-65) and of Leon (1037-65); he was the second son of King Sancho III of Navarre. In 1037 Ferdinand defeated Burmudo in a battle at Tamaron, acquiring Leon through Sancha's right of succession. Ferdinand won the Battle of Atapuerca over his brother in 1054 and was recognized as the emperor of Spain in 1056 by his territorial acquistions from the Moors of Spanish land from the Muslims. Before his death, Ferdinand provided that his estates be divided among his three sons, thus bequeathing a legacy of fratricidal strife that did not end until the accession of Alfonso I to the throne of Castile in 1072. Ferdinand I (c. 1015 – 24 June 1065), called the Great (el Magno), was the Count of Castile from his uncle's death in 1029 and the King of León after defeating his brother-in-law in 1037. According to tradition, he was the first to have himself crowned Emperor of Spain (1056), and his heirs carried on the tradition. He was a younger son of Sancho III of Navarre and Muniadona of Castile, and by his father's will recognised the supremacy of his eldest brother, García Sánchez III of Navarre. While Ferdinand inaugurated the rule of the Navarrese Jiménez dynasty over western Spain, his rise to preeminence among the Christian rulers of the peninsula shifted the locus of power and culture westward after more than a century of Leonese decline. Nevertheless, "[t]he internal consolidation of the realm of León–Castilla under Fernando el Magno and [his queen] Sancha (1037–1065) is a history that remains to be researched and written."

  
  

• Sources

  [S72] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (TM), (June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998). [S64] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index. Sancho III King Of NAVARRE; Male; Death: FEB 1035; Spouse: Nunnia Princess Of CASTILE; Marriage: 1001 ; No source information is available. Record submitted after 1991 by a member of the LDS Church. Search performed using PAF Insight on 25 Sep 2004