

"Promises and Temptations" ( Promesas y tentaciones) Zohar Liba as Abu Bakr, Al-Muqtadir's ambassador.Ignacio Herráez as Trifon, Ferdinand's champion.Daniel Albaladejo as Maestro Orotz, sword master.Pablo Álvarez as Orduño, Flain's son and Ruy's foe.Juan Fernández as Rodrigo, Ruy's grandfather.Nicolás Illoro as García, Ferdinand's youngest son.Jaime Olías as Alfonso, Ferdinand's son.Lucía Díez as Infanta Elvira, Ferdinand's younger daughter.Francisco Ortiz as Sancho, Ferdinand's eldest son.Alicia Sanz as Infanta Urraca, Ferdinand's eldest child.José Luis García Pérez as Ferdinand, the Great, Count of Castile, King of León.He has to find a way to prove his loyalty by preventing the death of the king (whom he despises) and at the same time avoid implicating his grandfather. Ruy becomes aware of the plot against Ferdinand and realises Rodrigo is involved.

He soon makes an enemy of Orduño due to their rivalry over Jimena. He is attracted to Jimena, who has been brought to court for an arranged marriage with Flain’s son Orduño. Ruy is taken by his grandfather to Ferdinand's court where he eventually becomes squire to Sancho. Sancha is worried by the activities of her daughter Urraca, Ferdinand's eldest child, who resents being excluded from the line of succession in favour of Sancho and is set on causing trouble in the Royal Court as a possible means of obtaining power and territory for herself. The king's three sons, Sancho, Alfonso and García are not involved in the plot but have their own individual ambitions to succeed their father. She does not want him harmed, but the nobles have other ideas. Sancha is plotting with a group of Leonese nobles, notably Flaín, Count of León and Ruy's grandfather Rodrigo, to overthrow her husband. Bermudo was killed in the battle and Ferdinand has taken the crown by right of his wife, the true successor. Ruy is the son of a low-ranking nobleman who was wronged years previously by Ferdinand, Count of Castile ( José Luis García Pérez).įerdinand, married to Queen Sancha, has become King of León by defeating in battle the previous king, Bermudo, Sancha’s brother.
