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Death of Queen Urraca I in Saldaña

Saldaña, Vega-Valdavia, Palencia

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Death of Queen Urraca I in Saldaña

Historical milestone · Saldaña, Vega-Valdavia, Palencia

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Queen Urraca I of León, the first woman to reign in her own right on the peninsula, died in Saldaña in 1126; the town was then one of the kingdom's strongholds in the Carrión floodplain.

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Photo: Valdavia (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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