The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages; . HE house of the Dukes of Medina Sidonia is illustrious in Spanish history, and its founder bears the honorable title of Guzman the Good, as a tribute to his unflinching loyalty to his sovereign, as well as for milder virtues. Don Alphonso Perez de Guzman was born at Valladolid in 1258, in the reign of Alphonso X., King of Castile. His father was Don Pedro Guzman, grand president of the province of Andalusia, and his mother an unmarried lady of noble birth, named Dona Teresa Ruiz de Castro. While King Alphonso h
The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages; . HE house of the Dukes of Medina Sidonia is illustrious in Spanish history, and its founder bears the honorable title of Guzman the Good, as a tribute to his unflinching loyalty to his sovereign, as well as for milder virtues. Don Alphonso Perez de Guzman was born at Valladolid in 1258, in the reign of Alphonso X., King of Castile. His father was Don Pedro Guzman, grand president of the province of Andalusia, and his mother an unmarried lady of noble birth, named Dona Teresa Ruiz de Castro. While King Alphonso had gone to France to assert hisclaim to the German Empire, the Moors in Granada formedan alliance with the king of Morocco and Fez, over-ran thewhole province of Andalusia and threatened the existence ofthe Castilian monarchy. On learning the state of affairs,Don Lopez, the lord of Biscay, with a numerous train offollowers comprising the flower of the Castilian nobility,hastened to the South. In that illustrious cortege rode DonAlphonso Guzman, then in his twentieth year. The ba
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