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Article: Alfonso VI
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- The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Alfonso VI 1030-1109, Spanish king of León (1065-1109) and Castile (1072-1109). He inherited León from his father, Ferdinand I. Defeated by his brother
Sancho II
of Castile, he fled to the Moorish court of Toledo. After Sancho's assassination (1072) Alfonso succeeded to the throne of Castile and took Galicia from his brother García (1073). He thus became the most powerful Christian ruler in Spain. He encouraged Christians in Muslim lands to migrate north, and he raided Muslim territory, penetrating as far south as Tarifa. After the conquest of strategic Toledo (1085), he took many other cities and reached the line of the Tagus ...
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