King Alfonso VIII of Castile Fordham Series in Medieval Studies Mary C. Erler and Franklin T. Harkins, series editors King Alfonso VIII of Castile Government, Family, and War Miguel Gómez, Damian Smith, and Kyle C. Lincoln, Editors Fordham University Press New York 2019 Copyright © 2019 Fordham University Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other— except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher. Fordham University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third- party Internet websites referred to in this publication and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. Fordham University Press also publishes its books in a variety of electronic formats. Some content that appears in print may not be available in electronic books. Visit us online at www.fordhampress.com. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Gómez, Miguel, 1975– editor. | Smith, Damian J., editor. | Lincoln, Kyle C., editor. Title: King Alfonso VIII of Castile : government, family, and war / Miguel Gómez, Damian Smith, and Kyle C. Lincoln, editors. Description: New York : Fordham University Press, [2019] | Series: Fordham series in medieval studies | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifi ers: lccn 2018059020 | ISBN 9780823284146 (cloth : alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Alfonso VIII, King of Castile, 1155–1214. | Castile (Spain)—Kings and rulers— Biography. | Spain—History—711–1516. Classifi cation: LCC DP139 .K56 2019 | DDC 946/.02092 [B] —dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc .gov/2018059020 Printed in the United States of America 21 20 19 5 4 3 2 1 First edition Contents List of Abbreviations / ix Alfonso VIII: An Introduction / 1 Teofilo F. Ruiz 1. Ideas of Kingship in the Preambles of Alfonso VIII’s Charters / 11 Joseph F. O’Callaghan 2. Selling Castile: Coinage, Propaganda, and Mediterranean Trade in the Age of Alfonso VIII / 30 James J. Todesca 3. Th e Infantazgo in the Reign of Alfonso VIII / 59 Janna Bianchini 4. “Happier in Daughters than in Sons”: Th e Children of Alfonso VIII of Castile and Leonor Plantagenet / 80 Miriam Shadis 5. A Wall and a Shield: Alfonso VIII and the Military Orders / 102 Sam Zeno Conedera, S.J. 6. Holy War and Crusade during the Reign of Alfonso VIII / 118 Carlos de Ayala Martínez 7. Alfonso VIII and the Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa / 143 Miguel Gómez 8. Alfonso VIII and the Papacy / 172 Damian Smith 9. “Si Possides Amicum, in Temptatione Posside Illum”: Alfonso VIII and Peter the Catholic / 185 Martín Alvira Cabrer viii contents 10. A Prosopography of the Castilian Episcopate in the Reign of Alfonso VIII / 204 Kyle C. Lincoln 11. Via impugnandi in the Age of Alfonso VIII: Iberian-Christian Kalām and a Latin Triad Revisited / 221 Thomas Burman Acknowledgments / 241 List of Contributors / 243 Index / 245 Abbreviations AC Sig Archivo de la Catedral de Sigüenza ACT Archivo de la Catedral de Toledo AHN Archivo Histórico Nacional, Madrid AT Julio Porres Martín-Cleto, ed., Los Anales Toledanos I–II (Toledo: Diputación Provincial de Toledo, 1993) BC Bullarium ordinis militiae de Calatrava (Madrid: Marin, 1759), reedited by Derek Lomax (Barcelona: El Alvir, 1981) BMCL Bulletin of Medieval Canon Law BRAH Boletín de la Real Academia de Historia BS Antonio Francisco Aguado de Córdova, Alfonso Antonio Alemán y Rosales, and José López Agurleta, eds., Bullarium equestris ordinis sancti Iacobi de Spatha (Madrid, 1719) CDCL Emilio Sáez Sánchez et al., eds., Colección Documental del Archivo de la Catedral de León, 13 vols. (León: Centro de Estudios e Investigación San Isidoro, 1987–1999) CCCM Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis (Turnhout: Brepols 1953–) CM Lucas of Túy, Chronicon mundi, ed. Emma Falque, CCCM 74 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2003) CMR David Th omas et al., Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History (Leiden/Boston: E. J. Brill, 2009–) CVR César Hernández Alonso, ed., Crónica de Veinte Reyes (Burgos: Ayuntamiento de Burgos, 1991) Documentación . . . José Manuel Garrido Garrido, ed., Documentación Burgos de la catedral de Burgos, 5 vols. (Burgos: Ediciones J.M. Garrido Garrido, 1983–1984) DRH Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada, Historia de rebus Hispanie sive Historia Gothica, ed. Juan Fernández Valverde, Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis 72 (Turnhout: Brepols, 1987) ix