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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 570 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COUNTS OF See also:CASTILE The counts of Castile began, as a See also:body, and not as a See also:line of chiefs, in the reign of See also:Alphonso the Chaste (789-842). They strove for See also:independence from the first, and when one See also:count had replaced several they achieved it. Made himself See also:independent of See also:Leon. One of his daughters married Ordono III. of Leon. By a second See also:marriage with a daughter of Sancho Abarca of See also:Navarre he had a son and successor. Son. Son. Murdered. Castile then passed to See also:Garcia's See also:sister, the wife of Sancho el See also:Mayor of Navarre.

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