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ALPHONSO VII

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 735 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ALM-ANC
ALPHONSO VII ., " the Emperor " (11261157), is a dignified and somewhat enigmatical figure. A vague tradition had always assigned the title of emperor to the sovereign who held Leon as the most direct representative of the Visigoth kings, who were themselves the representatives of the Roman
empire
 . But though given in charters, and claimed by
Alphonso
  VI. and the Battler, the title had been little more than a flourish of
rhetoric
 .
Alphonso
  VII. was crowned emperor in 1135 after the death of the Battler. The weakness of Aragon enabled him to make his superiority effective. He appears to have striven. for the formation of a national unity, which Spain had never possessed since the fall of the Visigoth kingdom. The elements he had to deal with could not be welded together. Alphonso was at once a
patron
  of the
church
 , and a
protector
  if not a favourer of the Mahommedans, who formed a large
part
  of his subjects. His reign ended in an unsuccessful campaign against the rising power of the Almohades. Though he was not actually defeated, his death in the pass of Muradel in the Sierra Morena, while on his way back to Toledo, occurred in circumstances which showed that no man could be what he claimed to he" king of the men of the two religions." His personal
character
  does not stand out with the emphasis of those of Alphonso VI. or the Battler. Yet he was a
great
  king, the type and to some extent the victim of the confusions of his ageChristian in creed and ambition, but more than half oriental in his
household
 .


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