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Reconquest Episode 30: Saint Ferdinand III, with Dr. Alexandra Wilhelmsen. Go here for more information on this show: reconquest.net/…/episode-30-sain… Go here to learn how to listen to Reconquest: …More
Reconquest Episode 30: Saint Ferdinand III, with Dr. Alexandra Wilhelmsen.

Go here for more information on this show: reconquest.net/…/episode-30-sain…

Go here to learn how to listen to Reconquest: reconquest.net/…/how-to-listen-t…

For this show, I am joined by Dr. Alexandra Wilhelmsen (with whom I previously discussed the Spanish Carlists). Our subject is Saint Ferdinand III, the Crusader and liberator of Catholic Spain, who united the two Iberian Kingdoms of Leon and Castile, ruling a territory roughly 2/3 the size of present-day Spain.

Included in our discussion are the Saint's Marian piety, his chivalrous rule, his amazing conquests of Seville, Cordoba, Jaen, and other cities, and his practice of heroic Christian virtue in the midst of conflict, including terrible family conflict.