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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 570 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COUNTS OF  CASTILE The
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counts of Castile began, as a
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body, and not as a
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line of chiefs, in the reign of
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Alphonso the Chaste (789-842) . They strove for independence from the first, and when one count had replaced several they achieved it . Made himself
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independent of Leon . One of his daughters married Ordono III. of Leon . By a second
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marriage with a daughter of Sancho Abarca of Navarre he had a son and successor . Son . Son . Murdered . Castile then passed to Garcia's
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sister, the wife of Sancho el Mayor of Navarre .

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