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Alfonso VI (c. 1040/1041[a] - 1 July 1109[2]), nicknamed the Brave (El B r a v o ) o r the Valiant, was king of León (1065-1109),[3] Galicia (1071-11 0 9 ) , [ b] and Castile (1072-1109).
After the conquest of Toledo in 1085, Alfonso proclaimed himself victor i o s i s simo rege in Toleto, et in Hispania et Gallecia (most victorious k i n g o f T o ledo, and of Spain and Galicia).[5] This conquest, along with E l C i d ' s t aking of Valencia would greatly expand the territory and influ en c e o f t h e Leonese/Castilian realm, but also provoked an Almoravid inv a s i on t h at Alfonso would spend the remainder of his reign resisting. Th e L e o n e se and Castilian armies suffered decisive defeats in the battles o f S a g r a jas (1086), Consuegra (1097) and Uclés (1108), in the latter of w h i c h h i s only son and heir, Sancho Alfónsez, died, and Valencia was aba n d o n e d but Toledo remained part of an expanded realm that he passed to h i s d a u g hter.
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Abt 1047 - 1109 (62 years)
