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The Kings of Spain
Alfonso VI, King of Leon and Castile,
captured Toledo from the Moors 1085, and with it, one of the great Muslim libraries of works from the classical civilizations, that the Muslims had kept alive (and added considerably to) during the Dark Ages,
he arranged for the translation of these works into Latin, reintroducing them to Western Europe, this would ultimately lead to the Renaissance and the rise of science,
this moment could be seen as the beginning of the West's greatness, which continues today,
had issue:


Urraca of Castile, mar Raymond of Burgundy and had issue:

Alfonso VII, Count of Castile, had issue:

  1. Sancho III, King of Castile, mar Blanche of Navarre [descendant of "El Cid" (see here)] and had issue:

    1. Alfonso VIII, King of Castile, mar Eleanor Plantagenet [dau of Henry II] and had issue:

      1. Berengaria, Queen of Castile, mar Alfonso IX, King of Leon and had issue.

      2. Blanche of Castile, mar Louis VIII, King of France and had issue [ancestors of Kings of France].

  2. Ferdinand II, King of Leon.

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