General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order . ment. He then made war uponthe neighbouring Moors, and pushed his con-quests into Portugal as far as Coimbra, ofwhich he became master in 1045. He nextattacked the Moorish king of Toledo, whomhe rendered tributary ; and the king of Sara-gossa prevented hostilities by a like brother Garcias falling into a dangerousillness, Ferdinand paid him a visit ; but dis-covering, as it is said, a design to seize hi
General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order . ment. He then made war uponthe neighbouring Moors, and pushed his con-quests into Portugal as far as Coimbra, ofwhich he became master in 1045. He nextattacked the Moorish king of Toledo, whomhe rendered tributary ; and the king of Sara-gossa prevented hostilities by a like brother Garcias falling into a dangerousillness, Ferdinand paid him a visit ; but dis-covering, as it is said, a design to seize hisperson, he returned in disgust. The next yearGarcias visited him on a like occasion, when, hedetained him prisoner. Garcias found meansto escape, and a war ensued between the twobrothers, in which Ferdinand acted upon thedefensive. Garcias invaded Castile, and abattle was fought, in which he lost his is asserted to have used great mo-deration after the victory, and to have abstainedfrom injuring his nephew, the young king ofNavarre ; though some historians represent hisconduct differently. The superstition of hisqueen, who desired to enrich a new church at. Ferdinandus 111. Rom. Imp . Hung. Boh. etc. Rex Arch. FER ( Gl ) F E R Leon with the bodies of two virgin martyrsinterred at Seville, caused Ferdinand, withoutprovocation, to make an incursion into the ter-ritories of the Moorish king of that place,whom he compelled to do him homage, and tocomply with his religious requisition. Mean-time his son don Sanchez, acting as an allyto the tributary Moorish king of Saragossa, whowas attacked by Ramiro king of Arragon, de-feated Ramiro in a great battle. The famousRodrigo, surnamed the Cid, commanded underSanchez on this occasion. Soon after, Ferdi-nand held an assembly of his states, in whichlie declared his intention of dividing his king-doms among his three sons ; a species of im-policy common at that period, and a fertilesource of civil wars. Its immediate c
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