Alfonso VI

The following report is on a man named Alfonso VI the Brave, Alfonso VI of Leon, or simply. emperor of all the Spains. Alfonso was a king in the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries. In his lifetime he did many great things yet suffered many devastating losses. In the following pages his triumphs are noted as well as his mistakes. To some people he would seem like a cruel man; to others he was …

…war. He made a few errors and lost a few battles, but who in the history of the world’s great leaders has never lost a battle? When the formation of Leon-Castile occurred, he was warring with his own chief military aide. If Alfonso had only left a male heir, corrected a few glitches in his fighting techniques, and kept his family together, he would have been the one perfect ruler in history. 4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**