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Berenguela (or Berengaria) (1180 – November 8, 1246), was briefly queen of Castile and León. The eldest daughter of Alfonso VIII of Castile and Leonora of Aquitaine, she was briefly engaged to Conrad II, Duke of Swabia, but he was murdered in 1197 before they could be married. Berenguela married Alfonso IX in 1198, but this was annulled in 1204 by Pope Innocent III because they were cousins. Berenguela and Alfonso had five children, including one who died in infancy, and when she returned to her f ...

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• Berenguela of Castile - Sources

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Go-Toba took the throne at the age of three, after his brother, Emperor Antoku, himself only five, was forced to abdicate during the Genpei War. His grandfather ex-Emperor Emperor Go-Shirakawa reigned as cloistered emperor. Shortly after Go-Toba took the throne, in 1192 Go-Shirakawa died and the first shogunate was established by Minamoto no Yoritomo. This meant that the emperor became a figurehead with little or no real power. In 1198, the shōgun forced Go-Toba, who was still in his teens, to abdicate. Two of Go-Toba's sons succeeded him o ...

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Emperor Go-Toba, Emperor Go-Toba - Genealogy, Emperor Go-Toba - Life, Emperor Go-Toba - Eras of his reign

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