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Nempe plures manet notum eo quod dive memorie genitori meo Assuri Comite satis fidelissimum fuisse Domino
Rademiro Principe et post obitum genitoris mei Ego vicem ipsius obtemperavi, ut potuit supradictum ... Ego vero tempore ut ille fines vite excepit et prolis ipsius Domino Ordonio regalia vice
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adquisivit, ego ut michi mee supetierunt vires adiutor et fidelissimus illi extiti et contra resistentes illi atquietavi adtentius dimicavit.
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The final embassy consisted in the ambassadors of a certain count
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Una ciudad de la España
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Abd al-Malik, who had been at her court. From
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El condado de Castilla, 711–1038: La historia frente a la leyenda
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Gonzalo Martínez Díez, "El obispado de Palencia en el siglo X,"
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