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Alfonso VII (Alfonso the Emperor), 1104–57, Spanish king of Castile and LeOn (1126–57), son and successor of Urraca. He recovered the places in Castile that his stepfather, Alfonso I of AragOn, had occupied and soon gained supremacy over the other Christian states in Spain. In 1135 he had himself crowned emperor in LeOn. His many victories over the Moors had no permanent results; his most famous conquests, COrdoba (1146) and AlmerIa (1147), were soon lost again. Alfonso left Castile to his son Sancho III (reigned 1157–58) and LeOn to his son Ferdinand II.
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