Alfonso X

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Known as El Sabio (the wise), Alfonso X was the king of Castile and Leon from 1252 - 1284.

He is best known for sheltering troubadours during the Albigensian Crusade, and collating two valuable treatises, the Cantigas de Santa Maria and the Libro de los juegos.