Battle of Viadangos (English Wikipedia)

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According to Bernard F. Reilly (1988), The Kingdom of León-Castilla under King Alfonso VI, 1065–1109, (Princeton: Princeton University Press), 76 n101, citing Julio Puyol y Alonso (1920), "Las crónicas anónimas," Boletín de la Real Academia de la Historia, 76:247–249, the name of Urraca's chief envoy, supplied by the Crónicas anónimas, inspires confidence in the source.
R. A. Fletcher (1984), Saint James's Catapult: The Life and Times of Diego Gelmírez of Santiago de Compostela (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 135.

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Reilly, 77 n102, adds that a castle named Orzilio mentioned in the Historia under the year 1121 is clearly in Oriense. He argues that the confusion caused by certain lines concerning Urraca's subsequent movements after leaving her son—ad Gallaetiam proficisci disposuit. Ad asperos itaque Astures montesque lapidosos iter aggrediens, per Ovetum transitum fecit ("she was disposed to depart for Galicia. Through violent and rocky Asturian mountains, to Oviedo the crossing was made")—results because Oriense was not then considered a part of Galicia (Gallaetia). For contrast he cites José Campelo, ed. (1950), Historia Compostelana, trans. Manuel Suárez (Santiago de Compostela), 126 n1, who believed Urraca and Alfonso were in the province of Burgos. Historian José María Lacarra believed the castle where Urraca was staying to be Monzón de Campos, perhaps relying on Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada, who, in his De rebus Hispaniae, writes, as quoted in Reyna Pastor (2003), "Mujeres y la guerra feudal: reinas, señoras y villanas. León, Galicia, Castilla, (siglos XII y XIII)", Las Mujeres y las guerras: el papel de las mujeres en las guerras de la Edad Antigua a la contemporánea, ed. Mary nash (Icaria Editorial), 56, who wrongly dates the battle to May 1111:
. . . su regreso por la zona de Castilla destrozó a los partidarios del conde Pedro y, saliendo tras ellos los copó en Monzón, cerca de Palencia, donde huidos se habían refugiado con la reina, y logró capturar a algunos de ellos; de esta manera regresó a León distinguido por dos triunfos.
". . . [Alfonso's] return through the zone of Castile destroyed the partisans of the count Pedro and, trailing them, he cornered them in Monzón, near Palencia, where they had taken refuge with the queen, and he succeeded in capturing some of them; in this manner he returned to León distinguished by two triumphs."