Ferdinand I reunites Castile and Leon
1037
The king of Castile defeated and killed his brother-in-law Bermudo III of Leon at the Battle of Tamaron, claiming the Leonese throne by his wife's right. The union of the two Christian kingdoms put Ferdinand at the head of the largest Christian polity in Iberia and would fund Reconquista pressure.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.