Ordoño II of Leon
| Ordoño II | |
|---|---|
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| King of Galicia | |
| Reign | 910–924 |
| Predecessor | Alfonso III |
| Successor | Fruela II |
| King of León | |
| Reign | 914–924 |
| Predecessor | García I |
| Successor | Fruela II |
| Born | c. 873 |
| Died | June 924 (aged 50–51) León |
| Burial | León Cathedral |
| Consort | Elvira Menéndez (died 921)= |
| Issue |
Sancho I Ordóñez Alfonso IV Ramiro II Jimena |
| Dynasty | Beni Alfons |
| Father | Alfonso III of Asturias |
| Mother | Jimena of Pamplona |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Ordoño II (c. 873 – June 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.
Born around 873, 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.
His father sent him to Zaragoza to be educated in the court of the Banu Qasi. 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 Historia silense, but this neighborhood has not been identified with certainty by historians.
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. Alfonso III died in the city of Zamora on December 20 910.
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