Queen Uraka. Jimena was pregnant with William's child, and as a husband, William was glad that he finally had a successor.

Regardless of whether the child conceived by Uraka was male or female, as long as the child was born, it meant that he had an orthodox heir to the two crowns of England and the Norman kingdom.

Until then, William had always had some worries in his mind that his crown would be inherited by the exiled members of the House of Normandy, and even by other families.

Most of the exiled Normandy family members were the Earls of Öburg or William's uncle, William's cousins, and they were hostile to William, who feared that they would be used by his enemies to destroy the Normandy dynasty.

But now, William, who is about to have a child, has no such concerns, and even if Urakar gives birth to a princess, William can make the decision to let a Norman nobleman take over and let his daughter inherit his crown.

Of course, William's greatest hope was the early birth of his son, and a healthy prince who would continue the hegemony of the Norman dynasty.

At the same time, as Uraka. Jimena's husband, William, had ambitions for his allies, the kingdoms of Castile, León, and Garcia in Spain, and he tried to seize the three crowns through his wife.

Uraka. As the eldest princess of Ferdinand the Great of Spain, Jimena has the right to inherit the throne second in line after her three younger brothers, Sancho, Alfonso and Garcia, and as her husband, William has the right to wage war to seize the three crowns whenever her three younger brothers break out in a war of succession.

William never mentioned this to anyone else, not even his wife, Ulaka, for fear of affecting the relationship between the Castilians and the Normans.

These days, William has entrusted all the affairs at hand to the Prime Minister, Duke Ladolph, and the war and mostly military affairs of Scotland have been handed over to the Duke Hubert, the Duke of Richard, and the Duke of Rodrigo, and he has devoted more time to his newly pregnant wife, Uraca.

The rest of his spare time was spent studying the history of Spain, trying to find out what was useful for his own seizure of Spain.

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The history of the Christian kingdoms in Spain can be traced back to 718 A.D.

In 718 A.D., Spain's Moorish army, which had begun to sweep across the peninsula seven years earlier, basically controlled the entire Iberian Peninsula after a period of military conquest and diplomatic persuasion, and established the province of "Al-Andalus" of the Arab Empire. The provincial governor's eyes had begun to turn to the Frankish kingdom on the other side of the Pyrenees.

If there is one local weakness in Arab control, it is one word: "mountain". Accustomed to the Arabian desert and the plains of Mesopotamia, the nomadic people are most troubled by the rolling mountains and the fierce mountain people hidden in between.

The North African Berbers, who followed the Arabs on their adventures in Iberia, were so familiar with the rugged terrain that they were often placed by the Arabs in the mountains of Iberia to continue herding their sheep, but as second-class citizens, they were often resentful of the Arabs who weighed on them.

Against this backdrop, a small Christian kingdom quietly emerged in the mountains of Asturias in northern Spain, which later became known as the Kingdom of Asturias.

The country's first ruler, Pelayo, was a mysterious figure, and there are many versions and contradictions about his legends, but the only thing we can confirm is that he was a nobleman of the Visigothic kingdom of the previous generation.

In 722 he raised a rebellion in the mountains. According to Christian sources, his guerrillas decisively defeated the *** army that came to suppress it in the "Battle of Covadonga", and the cross flag was raised again for the first time in Iberia where the crescent moon shone brightly.

However, there is no record of this person and this battle in the historical records of the first party, so we have reason to believe that this is at most a Spanish version of the "Pingxingguan Victory", and the political significance is far greater than the military significance.

The founding lord of Peraio has little to do other than the battle of Covadonga, and the only deed left to us by his son, the second lord Faferra (r. 737-739), is that he was killed by a bear while out hunting......

It can be seen that the ancestors of the Kingdom of Spain did not have a good foundation for the foundation.

Fortunately, in the eyes of the *** regime at this time, the guerrilla regime in this ravine is really no different from a gang of bandits, and the ambitions of the emirs have completely fallen on France on the other side of the Pyrenees.

When Charlie the Iron Hammer finally stopped the New Moon attack in Tours (732), the mountain kings of Asturias were able to wander leisurely in the mountains.

After Fafera, Pera was cut off from a series of men. Pelayo's son-in-law, Alfonso, son of Peter the "Duke of Cantabria", succeeded to the throne and became the first of more than a dozen monarchs named "Alfonso" in Spanish history (739-757), creating the first famous dynasty in medieval Spain, the "Alfonso Dynasty" (also known as the "Astur Dynasty").

The time of Alfonso I coincided with the transition of the Al-Andalus regime from a province to an independent post-Umayyad dynasty, during which a powerful Berber revolt broke out (740-743).

Taking advantage of the fact that the *** regime, centered in the southern Andalusia region, temporarily lost control of the northern borderlands, Alfonso I launched the first Christian counteroffensive against the *** side.

In 754, the warriors of the guerrillas slaughtered from the mountains and captured the important town of León.

On the other hand, Alfonso I launched an attack on Galicia, the farthest from the center of his reign, to the west.

By the time he returned in 757, the entire northern coast of Spain, with the exception of the Basque Country, had become the territory of the Kingdom of Asturias.

Apparently, the rulers of later generations of Spain had good reason to take the trouble to name their heirs "Alfonso", because the first real standard-bearer of the Reconquista was arguably none other than Alfonso I.

Alfonso I opened up a good situation for the country, and his successors gathered strength and ...... Unfolding infighting provides ample time and space.

Unfortunately, this pattern of starting an internal tilt in the absence of external pressure will continue in a cycle throughout the 800-year Reconquest. "Liberation" as a nationalist term may not have meant anything at all to a medieval feudal monarch.

Fruela I (757-768), the son of Alfonso I, continued his father's policy not to touch the no-man's land of the Douro Valley in the south, but to continue his attacks on Galicia mainly in the west, and in the east he also began to make contact with the Basques.

However, the death of Fruela I in a palace coup d'état, and the methods used by the next four generations of monarchs to ascend to the throne, although impossible to see due to lack of records, are undoubtedly very abnormal.

During this period, Fruela I's sister-in-law, Alfonso, fled to his Basque mother's home of Arawa and waited twenty-three years before returning to Asturias to inherit the throne (Alfonso II, 791-842).

Alfonso II was the longest-reigning king of the Spanish royal lineage (51 years), and the limited records leave us with the impression that he was largely a weak monarch.

The wife is not married, of course, the heirs are not to mention. This also predestined a new round of competition for the throne after the death of Alfonso II, and after various forces fought and compromised, a prince supported by the Galician faction, Ramiro finally won and became Ramiro I (842-850).

Ramiro I's grandfather was the younger brother of Alfonso I, the founder of the dynasty, which means that this dynasty is similar to the Song dynasty, and the imperial line has been transferred from the long house to the second room.

During the reigns of Ramiro I and his son Odonio I (850-866), the rebellions and internal strife of the nobility slowly and painfully subsided, especially under the latter's rule, and the country finally began to have the resources to see the flowery world below.

It is recorded that it was during this period that the major towns in the "Douro Valley", which had been abandoned for a century, finally welcomed Christian immigrants from the northern mountains, and the mountain kings who had been fighting in the mountains for a century finally came down!