"The imperial style was used on several occasions by the last Counts of Castile, nominal subjects of the Leonese kings.In a "fuero" granted to Castrojeriz in 974, which survives in a thirteenth-century confirmation, Count García Fernández refers to himself as "I, García Fernández, by the grace of God count and emperor of Castile" ("Ego Garssia Ferdinandi, gratia Dei comes et imperator Castelle").