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The Battle of Cerneja took place at ''Cernesa'' (Cerneja), an unidentified site in Galicia, in 1139/40, between the County of Portugal and the Kingdom of León.〔According to Ângelo Ribeiro, ''História de Portugal: A Formação do Território — Da Lusitânia ao Alargamento do País'' (2004, ISBN 989-554-106-6), 59, the battle took place in 1137.〕 In the aftermath of the Portuguese victory at the Battle of São Mamede (1128), the Portuguese count, Afonso Henriques, began a concerted effort to establish his independence, growing increasingly uncomfortable sharing power with his mother, Countess Theresa, who was supported by the Galician nobility and her lover, Fernando Pérez de Traba. The ''Chronica Adefonsi imperatoris'' notes that "prior to this, the Portuguese monarch had come to Galicia several times, but always he had been driven back by Fernando Pérez and Rodrigo Vélaz and other Galician leaders. Often he was forced to return to Portugal dishonored."〔Glenn Edward Lipskey (1972), (''The Chronicle of Alfonso the Emperor'' ) (Northwestern University PhD dissertation) (''CAI'' ), I, §75.〕 Between 1137, when he signed the Treaty of Tui, recognising Alfonso VII of León as his suzerain, and 1139 Afonso declared himself King of Portugal. In that year, or more probably the next (1140), Afonso gathered an army and marched into Galicia, camping near Limia.〔Simon Barton, ''The Aristocracy in Twelfth-century León and Castile'' (Cambridge, 1997), 174.〕 Fernando Pérez, who controlled western Galicia, and his ally Rodrigo Vélaz, who controlled the east, summoned the other Galician nobles, described as loyal men of Alfonso VII, to oppose the Portuguese advance. In the subsequent battle they were routed. The anonymous author of the ''Chronica'', who attributes their defeat to their sins, recounts the expedition in one paragraph:
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