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Personal data Ramiro II van Leon 

• He was born in the year 900.
• (Geschiedenis) .Source 1

  Ramiro II van León (?, 900 - León, 951) was een jongere zoon van koning Ordono II van León en van Elvira Mendez. In 931 volgde hij zijn broer Alfons op als koning. Hij leverde jarenlang strijd met de Moren. Hij nam hun versterkte post Mashrit (het huidige Madrid) in, moest het onderspit delven voor de Omejaden in 937, maar tekende in 939 dan weer een belangrijke overwinning op in Simancas. Op het einde van zijn bewind vermenigvuldigden de raids van de Moren zich echter. Onder zijn bestuur, in 935, riep Castilië zijn feitelijke onafhankelijkheid uit, onder Ferdinand González.

• (Levens event) .Source 2

  Ramiro II (c. 900–1 January 951), son of Ordoño II, was a King of León from 931 until his death. Initially titular king only of a lesser part of Asturias, he gained the crown of León (and with it, Galicia) after his brother Alfonso IV abdicated in 931. The scant Anales castellanos primeros are a primary source for his reign.
  Biography
  
  Ramiro was the creator of a Navarrese/Leonese coalition that defeated the Muslims in the Battle of Simancas (939). This victory allowed the advance of the Leonine border of the Duero to the Tormes.
  
  In the last years of his reign, he could not avoid Castilian independence under the direction of Fernán González of Castile, but still in 950 he launched an expedition to the valley of the Edge and defeated the Muslims at Talavera.
  Family
  
  He married twice, first to Adosinda Gutiérrez, Ramiro's first cousin and the daughter of Gutier Osoriz and Ildonzia Menendez, niece of Ramiro's mother, queen Elvira Menendez and cousin of San Rosendo. By her had sons Bermudo and Ordoño III, and presumably daughter Teresa, wife of García Sánchez I of Pamplona. He married secondly to García's sister, Urraca and had two children, Sancho I of León and Elvira Ramírez.
  
  He figures prominently in the romantic poem, the Miragaia, which tells the apocryphal story of Ramiro bedding Ortega, the daughter of a local Arab lord. By her he is given a son Alboazar, the progenitor of the Galician/Portuguese Maya family.[1] This Maya tradition was subsequently linked to another legend, that told in the Cantar de los Siete Infantes de Lara by giving Ramiro and Ortega (sometimes called Ortigueda) a daughter Ortega Ramírez, who is made to marry Gustios Gonzalez, grandfather of the legendary hero Mudarra Gonzalez de Lara. Subsequent elaboration of this legend gave further supposed descendants, but none of these Lara connections are accepted by modern scholars.

• He died in the year 951 in Léon, he was 51 years old.
• A child of Ordono II van Leon and Elvira Menéndez van Coimbra
• This information was last updated on January 21, 2013.

Household of Ramiro II van Leon

(1) He is married to Uracca Sánchez van Pamplona.

They got married

Child(ren):

1. Elvira van Leon  
2. Sancho I "de vette" van Leon  -966
3. Theresia Ramiréz van Leon   

(2) He is married to Adosinde Gutiérrez Osorez.

They got married in the year 925, he was 25 years old.Source 3

Child(ren):

1. Ordono III van Leon  926-956 

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