Ferdinand III of Castile
13th-century saint and king of Castile, Leon and Galicia · Spain · Models · Lived 1199 to 1252 · aged 52
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Something wrong?A 13th-century king who pushed the boundary of Christian Iberia south through the Guadalquivir Valley, swallowing Córdoba and Seville while Islamic power fractured. The Pope called him "Champion of Christ." The Church made him a saint four centuries later.
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Ferdinand inherited Castile in 1217, then León in 1230, binding the two crowns permanently. He was the son of Alfonso IX of León and Berengaria of Castile; a second marriage made him Count of Aumale. After the Almohad caliphate crumbled at Las Navas de Tolosa, he pressed into the Guadalquivir Valley with a string of sieges and annexations - Baeza, Úbeda, Jaén, Córdoba, Seville - that redrew the map of the peninsula and set Castile's borders for two hundred years. Pope Gregory IX gave him the title Athleta Christi for his campaigns. He died on 30 May 1252, and in 1671 Pope Clement X canonized him. His name now marks cities from California to the Philippines.
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