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• He was born in the year 873.
• (Geschiedenis) .Source 1

  Ordoño II van León en I van Galicië (ca. 873 - León, 924) was koning van León (914 - 924) en van Galicië (910 - 924).
  Biografie
  
  Ordoño was de zoon van Alfons III die hij liet opvoeden door de Banu Qasi van Zaragoza.
  
  Bij de dood van zijn vader in 910 verkreeg Ordono de heerschappij over Galicië en in 914, bij de dood van zijn broer García I in Zamora, werd Ordoño koning van León.
  
  Hij vocht op meerdere fronten om zijn rijk uit te breiden en bereikte in het westen de steden Évora en Mérida. De moorse leiders aldaar zagen zich gedwongen om de macht over die gebieden terug te kopen.
  
  In het oosten sloot Ordoño zich aan bij koning Sancho Garcés van Navarra en vocht tegen de emir van Córdoba, Abderramán III. De moslims werden in 917 verslagen bij San Esteban de Gormaz (917) wat ertoe leidde dat de steden Arnedo en Calahorra een jaar later in handen vielen van de Banu Qasi. De reactie van Abderramán III liet niet lang op zich wachten en in 920 trok hij op naar Osma en San Esteban de Gormaz en heroverde de steden. Hij viel het Koninkrijk Navarra binnen en versloeg de christenen in de slag bij Valdejunquera in 920, waar hij de bisschoppen van Tuy en Salamanca gevangen nam.

• (Levens event) .Source 2

  Ordoño II (c. 873–924, León) was a king of Galicia from 910, and king of Galicia and León from 914 until his death. He was an energetic and feisty ruler who submitted only the territories of the kingdom of Leon under his control and fought successfully against the Muslims, who still dominated most of the Iberian Peninsula. His reign marked the tactical and smooth transition of the regnum Asturum to the regnum Legionis, with the royal headquarters already established in the city of León.
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  Family
  
  He was the second son of King Alfonso III the Great, king of Asturias and his wife, Queen Jimena.
  
  Upon Alfonso's death in 910, the kingdom was divided between his three sons; León went to García, Galicia to Ordoño, and Asturias to Fruela. Asturian primacy was nevertheless recognised, though Ordoño was of a harder temperament than his brothers. Upon García's death in Zamora in 914, Ordoño succeeded him to the throne of the León.
  Life
  Youth
  
  Born around 871, he was the second son of Alfonso III the Great, King of Asturias, and his wife, Queen Jimena. From his father's side, he was a grandson of King Ordoño I of Asturias and his wife, Queen Nuna. His father sent him to Zaragoza to be educated in the court of the Banu Qasi. He collaborated in the work of government during the reign of his father.
  
  In lifetime of his father he performed in the government of Galicia. He personally directed, before the year 910, a military expedition against the Muslims in the south of the Iberian Peninsula, which came to the city of Seville. The expedition destroyed and looted the neighborhood of Regel, "considered one of the strongest and most opulent," as it is referred to by Silense history, but this neighborhood has not been identified with certainty by historians[citation needed].
  
  For unknown reasons, the children of Alfonso III the Great rebelled against their father in 909. Although the infant Garcia, brother of Ordoño, was arrested and imprisoned in the Gauzón castle, a year after Alfonso III was obligated to abdicate by his children and divide his kingdom amongst them. The kingdom of León corresponded to the firstborn son, Garcia, the kingdom of Asturias corresponded to that of Fruela and Galicia to Ordoño.[1] Alfonso III died in the city of Zamora on December 20 910.
  
  Garcia I kept distant and conflictual relations with his brother Ordoño. When Alfonso III died, Garcia prevented the bishop Gennadius of Astorga from taking five hundred mizcals, donated by Alfonso III to the shrine of the Apostle, to the city of Santiago de Compostela with him.[2]
  Accession to the throne of León
  
  At the death of his brother Garcia, which occurred in the city of Zamora in 914, Ordoño II inherited the kingdom of León and although his brother had married, he died childless.
  Reign
  
  Ordoño continued thereafter the expansion of the Christian polity of his forefathers on two fronts. In his south-western territories, he sacked Mérida and Évora and forced the Muslim governor of the region to buy his retreat.
  
  In his eastern territories, he united with Sancho I Garcés, king of Navarre, against the emir of Córdoba, Abd-ar-Rahman III. The Moors were put to rout at San Esteban de Gormaz (917). Arnedo and Calahorra were taken the next year from the Banu Qasi. The reaction of Abd-ar-rahman, however, was severe. In 920, he put to march an army to recover Osma and San Esteban de Gormaz. He crossed into Navarre and defeated the Christians at Valdejunquera and took the bishops of Tui and Salamanca captive. Though intending to crush Pamplona itself, he turned around to deal with his immense booty.
  
  Ordoño II—who had come at King Sancho's request—attributed the loss to the absence of the counts of Castile, who had not come at his call. He brought them together at Tejares and had them killed. The Christian counteroffensive was immediate, occupying La Rioja and incorporating into Navarre Nájera and Viguera.
  
  He suffered frequent raids into his territory from the armies of Abd-ar-Rahman III and he confronted the Castilians who were aspiring to foment revolt in León.
  Marriages
  
  Ordoño married three times. His first wife, and the mother of his children, was Elvira Menéndez, daughter of count Hermenegildo Gutiérrez and aunt of San Rosendo.
  
  He then married Aragonta González, daughter of count Gonzalo Betótez. He set her aside because "she was not pleasing to him". When he formed a political alliance with Sancho I of Pamplona, he was married to that king's daughter, Sancha. He died in 924 leaving young children, and was succeeded by his eldest surviving brother, Fruela, the king of Asturias, thereby reuniting their father's patrimony. His widow would remarry, wedding Álvaro Herrameliz, Count of Álava, and following his death, she again married, to Fernán González of Castile.

• He died in the year 924 in Leon, he was 51 years old.
• A child of Alfonso III "de Grote" van Asturië and Jiména Garcés van Pamplona
• This information was last updated on November 13, 2012.

Household of Ordono II van Leon

(1) He is married to Elvira Menéndez van Coimbra.

They got married in the year 892, he was 19 years old.Source 1

Child(ren):

1. Garcia van Leon  
2. Jimena van Leon  
3. Sancho I Ordónez van Leon  895-929
4. Alfonso IV van Leon  899-933 
5. Ramiro II van Leon  900-951 

(2) He is married to Aragonta González van Deza.

They got married in the year 922, he was 49 years old.Source 1

(3) He is married to Sancha Sanchez van Pamplona.

They got married February 923, he was 50 years old.Source 3

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