The Problem of Opposition of the Castilian Lineages on an Example of the Ruin of Rioja<i>
Investigated problem of mutual relations Castilian lineages on a boundary XI - XII centuries. For a consideration basis is taken an episode of 1092 when the armies under command of the Castilian knight Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, who was in the service of the emir of Zaragoza, had intruded in possessions of the Castilian king Alfonso VI and had ruined the earths of count of Rioja Garcia Ordonez. The given event, being only an episode in a continuous train of civil strife's, in a context of the further history of Rioja shows visually not only the destructive party of the autonomism of nobility, but also a nobility role as the guarantor of stability in frontier territories.