Editing Ferdinand II of León (section)

===Beginning of reign and first marriage with Urraca of Portugal===
In 1157 his father, King Alfonso VII died, and according of his will and the previous dispositions of the council of Valladolid of 1155, his second son inherited the Kingdoms of León and Galicia under the name of Ferdinand II; during the early months of his reign, the new monarch had to resolve his disputes with the powerful local nobles and an invasion by his brother Sancho III of Castile.<ref>''The Encyclopædia Britannica'', Vol.9, Ed. Thomas Spencer Baynes, (Henry G. Allen and Company, 1888), p. 80.</ref> In 1158 Ferdinand II signed the [[Treaty of Sahagún (1158)|Treaty of Sahagún]] with his brother Sancho III, under which they agreed to jointly wage war against the Muslims, to divide up the conquered territories, the provision that in case one of the two brothers died without issue, the survivor would inherit the domains of the deceased brother, and the partition of the [[Kingdom of Portugal]]. The death of his brother Sancho III in the same year and the succession of his infant son [[Alfonso VIII of Castile|Alfonso VIII]], annulled the clauses of the Treaty of Sahagún.{{sfn|Busk|1833|p=32}}

During the minority of age of his nephew Alfonso VIII, in the Kingdom of Castile began the dispute between the [[House of Lara|Houses of Lara]] and [[House of Castro|Castro]] to exercise the regency on behalf of the child king. Taking advantage of the anarchic state in which the kingdom of his late brother was found, Ferdinand II invaded Castile at the head of an army,{{sfn|Busk|1833|p=32}} and demanded, in order to restore order, that the Lara surrender him to his nephew Alfonso VIII, whose education he wished to take charge of.

In March 1160 [[Fernando Rodríguez de Castro]], commanding the forces of the House of Castro, defeated the Lara supporters in the [[Battle of Lobregal]], in which his father-in-law Count [[Osorio Martínez]] lost his life, and [[Nuño Pérez de Lara]] was captured. That same year, Ferdinand II was cured of a serious illness supposedly through the intercession of Saints [[Martin of Tours]] and Eufemia of Orense.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ld-le6Ss5-cC&q=Aportaciones+a+la+memoria+hist%C3%B3rica+de+Santa+Eufemia+en+Ourense&pg=PA224|title=Espana Sagrada. Theatro geographico-historico de la iglesia de Espana. Origen, divisiones...|year=1763|page=225|language=es}}</ref> In 1162 Fernando Rodríguez de Castro was appointed ''[[Majordomo|Majordomo mayor]]'' of Ferdinand II, a position he held twice: firstly from 15 August 1162 until his dismissal on 6 September 1164 and secondly from 19 October 1165 until 15 May 1166.

The boundary troubles with Castile restarted in 1164: he then met at Soria with the Lara family, who represented Alfonso VIII, and a truce was established, allowing him to move against the Muslim [[Almoravid]]s who still held much of southern Spain, and to capture the cities of [[Alcántara]] and [[Alburquerque, Spain|Alburquerque]]. In the same year, Ferdinand II defeated King [[Afonso I of Portugal]], who, in 1163, had occupied [[Salamanca]] in retaliation for the repopulation of the area ordered by the King of León.

In May/June 1165 Ferdinand II married with Infanta [[Urraca of Portugal]], daughter of King Afonso I, as a gesture of reconciliation and alliance between the Kingdoms of León and Portugal. At that time, he restored and repopulated the cities of [[Ledesma, Castile and León|Ledesma]] and [[Ciudad Rodrigo]], and this caused the inhabitants of [[Salamanca]] who, apparently, had bought the city of Ledesma, took up arms against the king and the magistrates of Ledesma; when Ferdinand II learned of it, he marched with his army against the rebels and forced them to return to their city.