Alfonso X the Wise becomes King of Castile
1252
The son of Ferdinand III inherited a kingdom stretching from the Bay of Biscay to the Strait of Gibraltar. He commissioned translations, law codes, and astronomical tables in Castilian rather than Latin, nurturing a new vernacular literature and the famous Alfonsine Tables. His Siete Partidas, a comprehensive legal code modeled on Roman and canon law, would influence Spanish jurisprudence for the next five centuries.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.