Toledo, the Story of an Old Spanish CapitalLynch, Hannah
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Toledo, the Story of an Old Spanish Capital
Lynch, Hannah
Toledo (Spain) -- Description and travel; Toledo (Spain) -- History
ALCÁZAR, 91, 100, 112, 113, 132, 133, 262.
ALCOCER, historian, 10, 77, 133, 134.
ALCURNIA, 130.
ALFAQUI, the generous Moor who pleaded for his Christian enemies and
whose memory is honoured by a statue in the Cathedral,
Ayuntamiento, 82, 88, 89, 90, 126, 202.
ALFONSO, the Learned, _Cronica General_, origin of Toledo, 6, 76.
ALFONSO VI., 77, 78, 79, 81, 82, 85, 86, 87, 151, 152, 262, 266, 274.
ALFONSO VII., 19, 93, 283.
ALFONSO VIII., 95, 96, 128.
ALFONSO MARTINEZ DE TOLEDO, 97.
ALMAMON, Toledan king, 77, 78, 79.
ALOYSIA DE SIGEA, woman poet of Toledo, 104.
ALVARO DE LUNA. Great Constable, 102, 105, 182, 262.
ALVAR GOMEZ, Chronicler of Cisneros, 13, 108.
ALVAREZ, modern damascene worker, 146.
AMADOR DE LOS RIOS, 162, 216.
AMBROSIA DE MORALES, 279.
AMRON, of Huesca, slaughter of the terrible _Day of the Foss_, 68, 69, 70.
ANGELA SIGEA, woman philosopher, 104.
ANTONIO DE HEREDIA, Toledan poet, 104.
ATANAGILDO, first Gothic sovereign of Toledo, 25, 274.
AUGUSTUS, 15.
AVIENO, 8.
AYALA, great Toledan family, rival of the Silvas, 103, 104, 106, 108.
B
BADDO, Gothic Queen, renounces Arianism, 31.
BAÑO DE LA CAVA, 302.
BAYEU, Spanish painter, 19, 174.
BELACIN, Mûsa's son, who married Rodrigo's widow after the Conquest, 66.
BELTRANAJE, illegitimate daughter of Henry the Impotent, cause of
Portuguese War with Isabel, 106.
BERNARD OF CLUNY, French archbishop of Toledo, who took the
Cathedral from the Moors and introduced the Latin rite, 84.
BERRUGUETE, 150, 161, 162, 280, 290, 291, 293, 296, 298.
BLANCHE, Rodrigo's widow, 66.
BLANCHE OF BOURBON, Pedro the Cruel's ill-treated wife, 99, 100.
BLAZ ORTIZ, 174.
BRISTES, legend of Doña Luz, 49.
BURIAL OF COUNT ORGAZ, El Greco's masterpiece, 203.
C
CAIUS PLANCIUS, 12.
CALDERON, 244, 262.
CARLOS III., 263.
CASA de Mesa, 254, 258.
CASA de las Tornerias, 256.
CASILDA, 287.
CASSIM, Toledan Moorish ruler, 67.
CATHEDRAL, 81, 83, 90, 91, 150, 275.
CAVA, origin of the word, 58.
CERVANTES, 120, 138.
CHARLES QUINT, 108, 109, 113, 262, 290.
CHAPEL of the New Kings, 186.
CHILDE PELAYO, conqueror of Covadonga, and son of Doña Luz, 50.
CHINDASVINTHE, Gothic King, 35.
CHRONIQUE rimée des rois de Tolède, 38, 53.
CID, el Campeador, 81, 85, 86, 87, 133.
CIGARRALES, 131, 295.
CISNEROS' great Cardinal, 107, 108, 109, 282.
CLEPSYDRAS of Az-Zarcal, 247.
CLOISTERS of Cathedral, 174.
CLOISTERS of San Juan de los Reyes, 225.
COMUNEROS, the rising under Juan de Padilla, 110.
COPIN of Holland, 169, 173, 176, 179.
CORO of Cathedral, 161, 162.
CORRAL of Don Diego, 261.
CORTES of Toledo, 107.
COUNCILS of Toledo, 22.
CREDO of Toledo, 23.
CRISTO de la Luz, 274.
CRISTO de la Vega, 276.
D
DACIAN, persecution and death of Leocadia, 19, 20, 21.
DIEGO MOSSEM VALERA, historian, 6.
DOZY, historian, 79.
DENIS, ST, 18, 19.
E
EGICA, 47.
EL GRECO, 193;
his quarrel with the Chapter of Toledo, 197;
his quarrel with Philip II, 201;
his "Assumption," 212.
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