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EARLY See also:COUNTS OF See also:BARCELONA In the last years of the 8th and beginning of the 9th See also:century, See also:Charlemagne and See also:Louis the See also:Pius began conquering the See also:north-See also:east of See also:Spain, which the See also:Arabs had occupied as early as 713. By 811 the See also:Franks had conquered as far as See also:Tortosa and See also:Tarragona. The territory gained was called the See also:Marca Hispanica, and was governed by counts of See also:Roussillon, Ampurias, Besaltu, Barcelona, Cerdena, Pallars and Urgell. They became See also:independent during the decadence of the See also:Carolingians. The supremacy was acquired gradually by the See also:Garcia . Fernan Gonzales Ordono H. . Fruela . See also:Alphonso IV. . Ramiro H. . Ordono HI. . Sancho I., " The See also:Fat." Ramiro III. Bermudo II., The Gouty " Alphonso V.

. Bermudo III. . Fernando I., or See also:

Ferdinand. Garcia See also:Fernandez Saneho Garcia . Garcia . . I 923-968 968-1006 I006-IO28 1028 923-924 924-931 931-950 950-955 955-967 967-982 982-999 999-1027 1027-1037 1027-1065 910-913 913-923 Took See also:Leon, which then included Bardulia, or See also:Castile, as the eldest son. Second son; became See also:king in Gallicia which included north-ern See also:Portugal and acquired Leon on the See also:death of his See also:brother Garcia. Third brother; held See also:Asturias, and was king of all north-See also:west for a See also:short See also:time after death of Ordono. Son of Ordono ; became a See also:monk at Sahagun, and was succeeded by his brother Ramiro. In his reign Castile See also:broke away from Leon, under the See also:count Fernan Gonzales. Son of Ramiro. See also:Half brother of Ordono III. and son of Ramiro II. by his second See also:marriage with a daughter of Sancho Abarca of See also:Navarre. Was driven out by his nobles, in See also:alliance with Fernan Gonzales, count of Castile, and restored by the See also:caliph.

The rebels put Ordono, son of Alphonso IV., on the See also:

throne for a time. Son of Sancho. Succeeded as a boy. His reign was a See also:period of anarchy. Son of Ordono III.,was supported against his See also:cousin Ramiro III. by the nobles, and was placed on the throne by the Hajib Mansur. Son of Bermudo. Began the restoration of the See also:kingdom after the period of anarchy, and subjection to the See also:caliphate. Killed at See also:siege of Viseu. Son of Alphonso V.; was killed in See also:battle at Tamaron with his brother-in-See also:law Ferdinand, count and then first king of Castile. Son of Sancho el See also:Mayor of Navarre, king of Castile by right of his See also:mother, and of Leon and Gallicia by the See also:sword. Sancho Abarca, i.e. Brogues Garcia See also:Sanchez Sancho Garcia .

Garcia Sanchez . "TheTrembler" Sancho el Mayor Garcia III. . Sancho IV. . 906-926 926-966 966-993 993-1000 1000-1035 1035-1054 1054-1076 Ramiro Sanchez Sancho I. Pedro I. . . . Alphonso I."The Battler." Ramiro II. . Petronilla . 1035-1067 1067-1094 1094-1102 1102-1134 1134-1137 1137-1164 counts of Barcelona who became independent with Wilfred I. by 874. He and his immediate descendants gradually subdued the other counts. They suffered much from the inroads of Mansur in the loth century, but on the decline of the caliphate, they took See also:

part in the See also:general advance. Berenguer Ramon I.

1018-1035 Held Barcelona, See also:

Vich and See also:Manresa with See also:land See also:con- quered from the See also:Moors to' the See also:south. Ramon Berenguer, . 1035-1076 Son. His See also:father had divided " The Old." his possessions between his widow and all his sons, but Ramon Berenguer reunited them by force. He See also:left his dominion to be held in See also:common by his two sons. Ramon Berenguer II. Cap Ramon Berenguer I076-I082 d'estops (" See also:Tow Pow ") and was murdered by Beren- Berenguer Ramon II. I076-I082 guer Ramon II., whose end is unknown. Ramon Berenguer . 1082-1131 Son of Ramon Berenguer II. By his marriage with Aldonza or See also:Douce of See also:Pro- vence he acquired territory in south-eastern See also:France. He inherited or subdued all the other countships of See also:Catalonia, except Peralada.

Ramon Berenguer . I131-1162 Son. Inherited the See also:

Spanish possessions of his father, the See also:French going to a brother. Was betrothed to Petronilla of See also:Aragon, and married her in 1150, becoming king of Aragon. Second period of the See also:union, disunion and See also:reunion of Castile and Leon from Fernando I. to Fernando III. Fernando I. divided his dominions among his three sons: to Sancho, the eldest, Castile; to Alfonso, the second son, Leon; to Garcia, the third son, Gallicia.

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