Gonzalo Fernandez de Lara, Count of Burgos and Castile

Gonzalo married Munia of Castile in 912 in Spain. Munia (daughter of Nuno Nunez, Count of Castile and daughter) died after 5 Aug 935; was buried in Hermitage of Santa María de Lara, Castile and León, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• History: He was also known as Fernan Gonzalez. In 932, he succeeded as the Count of Castile, upon the death of his father.

Fernando married Sancha Sanchez of Navarre in 932 in Spain. Sancha (daughter of Sancho I Garces "Optimo Imperato", King of Navarre and Toda Aznarez de Larron) was born about 915 in Spain; died in Dec 959 in Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Fernando married Urraca Garces of Navarre between 960 amd 962. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Garcia married Aba Ribagorza on 958 - 961. Aba (daughter of Ramon II, Count of Ribagorza and Gersinde de Fezensac) died after 995 in Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Urraca married Sancho II Abarca, King of Navarre, Count of Aragon in 962. Sancho (son of Garcia III Sanchez, King of Navarre and Angregota Sanchez) was born after 935; died in Dec 994; was buried in Royal Monastery of San Juan de la Peña, Santa Cruz de la Serós, Aragon, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sancho married Gisela of Lluçà on Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sancho married Urraca Salvadores in 994. Urraca (daughter of Salvador Perez) died on 20 May 1025. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elvira married Vermudo II "the Gouty", King of León in 26 Nov 991 - 30 Nov 991. Vermudo (son of Ordogno III, King of León and Aragonta Pelaez) was born about 953; died in Sep 999 in Villafranca del Bierzo, Castile and León, Spain; was buried in Monastery of Carracedo, Carracedelo, Castile and León, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Name:
He is also called Pedro Fernandez.

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• History: In 994, he was crowned the King of Navarre.

Notes:

Name:

Garcia married Ximena Fernandez before 981. Ximena (daughter of Fernando Vermudez, Count of Cea and Elvira Diaz of Saldana) was born about 970; died after 1035. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Last Full Review: 7 Aug 2020

Sancha married Raymond Berenger I "al Cueva", Count of Barcelona in 1021. Raymond (son of Raymond Borrel I, Count of Barcelona, Gerona and Osona and Ermesinde de Carcassonne) was born in 1005; died on 26 May 1035; was buried in Santa Maria de Ripoll, Ripoll, Catalonia, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• General Information: She was the co-heir of Castile and the countship of Alava.

Munia married Sancho Garcia III the Great, King of Navarre, Count of Castile and Aragon on Yes, date unknown. Sancho (son of Garcia IV Sanchez, King of Navarre and Ximena Fernandez) was born between 990 and 992; died on 18 Oct 1035 in La Bureba, Castile and León, Spain; was buried in Oña, Castile and León, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• History: In 999, he was crowned the King of Castile and León.

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Name:

Alfonso married Elvira Meneddez in 1015. Elvira (daughter of Menendo Gonzalez, Count of Galicia and Totadomna) was born about 996 in Galicia, Spain; died in Dec 1022 in León, Castile and León, Spain; was buried in Basilica of San Isidoro, León, Castile and León, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Urraca Garces of Navarre. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Urraca married Sancho Garcia, Count of Castile in 994. Sancho (son of Garcia I Fernandez de Lara, Count of Castile and Aba Ribagorza) was born about 965 in Spain; died on 5 Feb 1017; was buried in Monastery of San Salvador de Oña, Oña, Castile and León,Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Crowned: 999; In 999 he was crowned as the King of Navarre.
• Title(s): 1026; He became the Count of Castile in 1026.
• Title(s): 1030; In 1030 he became the Count of Aragon.

Notes:

Name:


Died:
He was murdered.

Sancho married Sancha de Aybar on Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sancho married Munia Mayor on Yes, date unknown. Munia (daughter of Sancho Garcia, Count of Castile and Urraca Salvadores) was born in 995; died after 13 Jul 1066 in Frómista, Castile and León, Spain; was buried in Monastery of San Salvador de Oña, Oña, Castile and León,Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Menendo Gonzalez, Count of Galicia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Military: say 1030; Ramon Berenguer campaigned against the Moors, extending his dominions as far west as Barbastro and imposing heavy tributes (parias) on other Moorish cities. Historians claim that those tributes helped create the first wave of prosperity in Catalan history. During his reign Catalan maritime power started to be felt in the western Mediterranean. Ramon Berenguer the Old was also the first count of Catalonia to acquire lands (the counties of Carcassonne and Razés) and influence north of the Pyrenees.
• Title(s): 1035; In 1035 he became the Count of Barcelona. He was also the Count of Gerona, Osona, Carcassonne and Rasez. Oddly enough, with the title change, he is called the first, same as his father.
• Religion: 1054; Pope Victor II excommunicated Almodis and Ramon for there illegal marriage until 1056.
• Legal: say 1060; He promulgated the earliest versions of a written code of Catalan law, the Usages of Barcelona.
• Last Full Review: 7 Aug 2020

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Legal:

Raymond married Isabel on Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Raymond married Blanca of Narbonne on Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Raymond married Almodis de la Marche, Countess of Limoges in 1053. Almodis (daughter of Bernard I, Count de la Haute Marche and Perigord and Amelia, Countess of Aubnay) was born about 1020; died on 16 Oct 1071; was buried in Barcelona Cathedral, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Land/House: say 1035
• Oath: 1041 to 1049
• Land/House: 9 Jun 1050
• Religion: say 1051

Notes:

Land/House:
He received the frontier march from the Llobregat to the al-Andalus, which constituted the new county of Penedès with its capital in Olèrdola

Oath:
Sanç swore fealty to his elder brother.

Land/House:
He ceded his inheritance to Ramon, who in return granted him some lands and men as a fief

Religion:
Sanç then entered the church, first as a monk at Saint-Pons-de-Thomières and then as the prior of Sant Benet de Bages, before it became an abbey.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Title(s): 1029; He became the Count of Castile after his uncle's death in 1029.
• Reign: From 1035 to 1065; King of Castile
• Reign: From 1037 to 1065; King of León
• Reign: From 1056 to 1065; Emperor of Spain
• Last Full Review: 31 May 2021

Notes:

Name:

Reign:
He was crowned King of León after defeating his brother-in-law.

Reign:
According to tradition, he was the first to have himself crowned Emperor of Spain in 1056, and his heirs carried on the tradition.

Ferdinand married Sancha of León between Nov 1032 and Dec 1032. Sancha (daughter of Alfonso V, King of Castile and León and Elvira Meneddez) was born in 1013 in León, Castile and León, Spain; died on 8 Nov 1067 in León, Castile and León, Spain; was buried in Basilica of San Isidoro, León, Castile and León, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• History: He was crowned the King of Navarre in 1035.

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Name:

Garcia married Stephanie de Foix in 1038 in Spain. Stephanie (daughter of Bernard Rodger, Count of Conserans and Bigorre, Lord of Foix and Gersende de Bigorre) died after 1066. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Jimena Fernandez. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Last Full Review: 31 May 2021

Notes:

Name:

Sancha married Ferdinand I "the Great", King of Castile and León between Nov 1032 and Dec 1032. Ferdinand (son of Sancho Garcia III the Great, King of Navarre, Count of Castile and Aragon and Munia Mayor) was born between 1016 and 1018 in Spain; died on 27 Dec 1065 in León, Castile and León, Spain; was buried in Basilica of San Isidoro, León, Castile and León, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Fernando Gundemarez. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• General Information: She was the co-heir of Castile and the countship of Alava.

Munia married Sancho Garcia III the Great, King of Navarre, Count of Castile and Aragon on Yes, date unknown. Sancho (son of Garcia IV Sanchez, King of Navarre and Ximena Fernandez) was born between 990 and 992; died on 18 Oct 1035 in La Bureba, Castile and León, Spain; was buried in Oña, Castile and León, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Crowned: In 1035, he was crowned the King of Aragon.

Notes:

Birth:
He was illegitimate, but his parents later married.

Name:


Died:
He was killed in battle.

Ramiro married Gilberga de Conserans on 22 Aug 1036 in Jaca, Aragon, Spain. Gilberga (daughter of Bernard Rodger, Count of Conserans and Bigorre, Lord of Foix and Gersende de Bigorre) died in 1054. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Legal: 16 Oct 1071

Notes:

Legal:
he murdered his father's third wife, Almodis, and was exiled.

Notes:

Name:
His full title was the Count of Barcelona, Gerona, Osona, Carcassonne, and Rasez.

Died:
He was murdered by his half-brother.

Raymond married Mathilda of Apulia in 1078. Mathilda (daughter of Robert Guiscard d'Hauteville, Duke of Apulia, Calabria, and Sicily and Sikelgaita) was born about 1058; died in 1111/12. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Agnes married Guigues VII "le Gros", Count of Albon and Grenoble; Sire de Vion on 10 May 1070. Guigues (son of Guigues VI "the Old", Count of Albon and Grenoble and Adelaide Beaujeu) was born about 1025; died on 22 Apr 1075. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• General Information: From Wikipedia: In the cultural field, Alfonso VI promoted the safety of the Camino de Santiago and promoted the Cluniac Reforms in the monasteries of Galicia, León and Castile. In the spring of 1073, he made the first concession of a Leonese monastery to the Order of Cluny. The monarch replaced the Mozarabic or Toledan rite with the Roman one. In this respect it is a common legend that Alfonso VI took Mozarabic and Roman breviaries and threw them into the fire. When only the Roman breviary burned, the king threw the Mozarabic one into the fire, thus imposing the Roman rite.[citation needed] Alfonso VI, the conqueror of Toledo, the great Europeanizing monarch, saw in the last years of his reign how the great political work that he had carried started to be dismantled due to Almoravid attacks and internal weaknesses. Alfonso VI had fully assumed the imperial idea of León and his openness to European influence had made him aware of the feudal political practices which, in the France of his time, reached their most complete expression. In the conjunction of these two elements, Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz sees the explanation of the grant of the iure hereditario (sharing the kingdom between the two daughters and the son instead of bequeathing all to the only son, more typical of Navarrese-Aragonese tradition) of the Counties of Galicia and Portugal to her two Burgundian sons-in-law, Raymond and Henry. After a few years, that decision led to the independence of Portugal and the possibility of an independent Galicia under Alfonso Raimúndez, which ultimately did not materialize when the infante became King Alfonso VII of León.
• Crowned: 1065; In 1065, he was crowned the King of León. In 1072, he was crowned the King of Castile.
• Military: 1085; He conquered Toledo and Madrid in 1085 and Lisbon in 1093.
• Living: 28 May 1108, Astorga Cathedral, Astorga, Castile and León, Spain; Alfonso and Beatrice appeared together on 28 May 1108 in the Astorga Cathedral.
• Last Full Review: 7 Jul 2021

Notes:

Birth: Weis (1982) gives his birth date as 1030.

Name:

Buried:
From Wikipedia: The mortal remains of the king were deposited in a stone sepulcher, which was placed at the feet of the church of the Royal Monastery, until the reign of Sancho IV, who deemed it unseemly that his ancestor was buried at the foot of the temple and ordered the tomb to be moved inside and placed in the church's transept, near the tomb of Beatriz, Dowager Lady of Los Cameros and daughter of Infante Frederick of Castile who had been executed by orders of his brother, King Alfonso X the Wise in 1277.

The sepulcher that contained the remains of the king, now disappeared, was supported on alabaster lions, and was a large ark of white marble, eight feet long and four wide and tall, being covered by a smooth black lid. The tomb was usually covered by a silk tapestry, woven in Flanders, bearing the image of the king crowned and armed, with the representation of the arms of Castile and León on the sides, and a crucifix at the head of the tomb.[72]

The tomb that contained the remains of Alfonso VI was destroyed in 1810, during the fire at the Royal Monastery of San Benito. The mortal remains of the king and those of several of his wives were collected and preserved in the abbey chamber until 1821, when the monks were expelled, and were then deposited by the abbot Ramón Alegrías in a box, which was placed in the southern wall of the chapel of the Crucifix until January 1835, when the remains were collected again and placed in another box and taken to the archive where the remains of the wives of the sovereign were at that time. The purpose was to place all the royal remains in a new sanctuary that was being built at that time.[72] However, when the Royal Monastery of San Benito was dissolved in 1835, the monks delivered the two boxes with the royal remains to a relative of one of them, who kept it hidden until 1902, when these were discovered by Rodrigo Fernández Núñez, a professor at the Institute of Zamora Rodrigo.

The mortal remains of Alfonso VI are now in the Monastery of the Benedictine nuns of Sahagún, at the foot of the temple, in a smooth stone ark and with a cover of modern marble, and in a nearby sepulcher, equally smooth, lies the remains of several of the king's wives.

Alfonso married Agnes of Aquitaine, Queen of León and Castile in 1073/74. Agnes was born in 1052; died on 6 Jun 1078. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alfonso married Jimena Muñoz, a royal concubine in Not married. Jimena died in 1128; was buried in San Andrés Monastery, Vega de Espinareda, Castile and León, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alfonso married Constance of Burgundy in 1080/81. Constance (daughter of Robert III "the Old", Duke of Burgundy, Prince of France and Eleanor of Semur-en-Auxois) was born on 8 May 1046; died in Jan 1093 to Feb 1093; was buried in The Monastery of Sahagún, Sahagún, Castile and León, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alfonso married Zaïda of Seville "Isabel", Princess of Seville and Dania in not married. Zaïda was born about 1070 in Dénia, Valencian Community, Spain; died on 12 Sep 1107 in Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alfonso married Berta of Burgundy after 25 Nov 1093. Berta (daughter of William II "the Great", Count of Burgundy and Mâcon and Stephanie of Longwy) died before 15 Jan 1100. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alfonso married Isabel on yes date unknown. Isabel died about 1107. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alfonso married Beatrice of Aquitaine in 1108. Beatrice (daughter of William IV, Count of Poitou and Hildegarde of Burgundy, Duchess consort of Gascony and Aquitaine) died in 1110. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• History: He was also known as Sancho IV. He lived in Uncastillo and Sanguesa, Spain.

Sancho married Constanza of Maranon in 1057 in Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Audregoto. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Alfonso V, King of Castile and León. Alfonso (son of Vermudo II "the Gouty", King of León and Elvira Garcia of Castile) was born in 994 in Spain; died on 7 Aug 1028 in Viseu, Centro, Portugal; was buried in Basilica of San Isidoro, León, Castile and León, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Diego, Count of Orviedo. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Title(s): 1029; He became the Count of Castile after his uncle's death in 1029.
• Reign: From 1035 to 1065; King of Castile
• Reign: From 1037 to 1065; King of León
• Reign: From 1056 to 1065; Emperor of Spain
• Last Full Review: 31 May 2021

Notes:

Name:

Reign:
He was crowned King of León after defeating his brother-in-law.

Reign:
According to tradition, he was the first to have himself crowned Emperor of Spain in 1056, and his heirs carried on the tradition.

Ferdinand married Sancha of León between Nov 1032 and Dec 1032. Sancha (daughter of Alfonso V, King of Castile and León and Elvira Meneddez) was born in 1013 in León, Castile and León, Spain; died on 8 Nov 1067 in León, Castile and León, Spain; was buried in Basilica of San Isidoro, León, Castile and León, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• History: He was crowned the King of Navarre in 1035.

Notes:

Name:

Garcia married Stephanie de Foix in 1038 in Spain. Stephanie (daughter of Bernard Rodger, Count of Conserans and Bigorre, Lord of Foix and Gersende de Bigorre) died after 1066. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Jimena Fernandez. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Crowned: 1063; Sancho was crowned the King of Aragon in 1063.
• Crowned: 1076; In 1076, he was crowned the King of Navarre. He was known as Ramiro IV King of Navarre.

Notes:

Name:


Died:
He was killed in the battle at Huesca.

Sancho married first wife on Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sancho married Felicie de Roucy on Yes, date unknown. Felicie (daughter of Hildouin III, Count of Montdidier and Roucy and Alice of Roucy) died on 24 Apr 1123. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Raymond married Dulce di Gievaudun on 3 Feb 1112. Dulce (daughter of Gilbert, Vicount of Gievaudun, Carlat, and Milhaud and Gerberga) was born about 1095; died between 1127 and 1130. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elvira married Raymond IV of Toulouse on yes date unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elvira married Fernando Fernández de Carrión on yes date unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Name:
She was the heiress of the countship of Portugal.

Teresa married Henry I of Burgundy, Count of Portugal in 1093. Henry (son of Henry, Duke of Burgundy and Sibylle of Barcelona) was born in 1035 in Dijon, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France; died on 1 Nov 1112 in Astorga, Castile and León, Spain; was buried in Braga Cathedral, Braga, Norte, Portugal. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• General Information: She was the heiress of Castile and León. Her nickname translates to the Reckless.
• Title(s): 1093; She became the Countess of Galicia.
• Reign: From 1109 to 1126; Queen of Galicia, Castile, León, and Toledo.
• Title(s): 1 Jul 1109; She became the Queen of Galicia, Castile, León, and Toledo.
• Last Full Review: 11 Feb 2021

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Name:

Urraca married Raymond of Burgundy and Ivrea, Count of Castile in 1087 in Toledo, Castile–La Mancha, Spain. Raymond (son of William II "the Great", Count of Burgundy and Mâcon and Stephanie of Longwy) was born about 1070 in Burgundy, France; died on 24 May 1107 in Grajal de Campos, Castile and León, Spain; was buried in Santiago de Compostela Cathedral, Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Urraca married Alfonso I "the Battler", King of Aragon in Oct 1109 in Monzón Castle, Monzón, Aragon, Spain. Alfonso was born about 1073/74; died on 7 Sep 1134. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Last Full Review: 5 Jul 2021

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• Last Full Review: 5 Jul 2021

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• Last Full Review: 5 Jul 2021

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• Last Full Review: 5 Jul 2021

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• Last Full Review: 5 Jul 2021

Notes:

Died:
He was killed at the Battle of Uclés.

Sancha married Rodrigo González de Lara, Count of Liébana on yes date unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elvira married Roger II of Sicily, King of Sicily on yes date unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• History: He was also the Lord of Urroz and Moncon. He was disinherited as Infante of Navarre. Ramiro II went on the First Crusade with Raymond of Toulouse.

Ramiro married Christina Diaz after 1098. Christina (daughter of el Cid and Dona Jimena Diaz) was born in 1077. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Fernando Gundemarez. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• History: Her name was also spelt "Ximina".

Jimena married el Cid on 14 Jul 1074. el (son of Diego Lainez, Senor de Bivar and Teresa Rodrigues) was born about 1043; died in Jul 1099. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• General Information: From Wikipedia: In the cultural field, Alfonso VI promoted the safety of the Camino de Santiago and promoted the Cluniac Reforms in the monasteries of Galicia, León and Castile. In the spring of 1073, he made the first concession of a Leonese monastery to the Order of Cluny. The monarch replaced the Mozarabic or Toledan rite with the Roman one. In this respect it is a common legend that Alfonso VI took Mozarabic and Roman breviaries and threw them into the fire. When only the Roman breviary burned, the king threw the Mozarabic one into the fire, thus imposing the Roman rite.[citation needed] Alfonso VI, the conqueror of Toledo, the great Europeanizing monarch, saw in the last years of his reign how the great political work that he had carried started to be dismantled due to Almoravid attacks and internal weaknesses. Alfonso VI had fully assumed the imperial idea of León and his openness to European influence had made him aware of the feudal political practices which, in the France of his time, reached their most complete expression. In the conjunction of these two elements, Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz sees the explanation of the grant of the iure hereditario (sharing the kingdom between the two daughters and the son instead of bequeathing all to the only son, more typical of Navarrese-Aragonese tradition) of the Counties of Galicia and Portugal to her two Burgundian sons-in-law, Raymond and Henry. After a few years, that decision led to the independence of Portugal and the possibility of an independent Galicia under Alfonso Raimúndez, which ultimately did not materialize when the infante became King Alfonso VII of León.
• Crowned: 1065; In 1065, he was crowned the King of León. In 1072, he was crowned the King of Castile.
• Military: 1085; He conquered Toledo and Madrid in 1085 and Lisbon in 1093.
• Living: 28 May 1108, Astorga Cathedral, Astorga, Castile and León, Spain; Alfonso and Beatrice appeared together on 28 May 1108 in the Astorga Cathedral.
• Last Full Review: 7 Jul 2021

Notes:

Birth: Weis (1982) gives his birth date as 1030.

Name:

Buried:
From Wikipedia: The mortal remains of the king were deposited in a stone sepulcher, which was placed at the feet of the church of the Royal Monastery, until the reign of Sancho IV, who deemed it unseemly that his ancestor was buried at the foot of the temple and ordered the tomb to be moved inside and placed in the church's transept, near the tomb of Beatriz, Dowager Lady of Los Cameros and daughter of Infante Frederick of Castile who had been executed by orders of his brother, King Alfonso X the Wise in 1277.

The sepulcher that contained the remains of the king, now disappeared, was supported on alabaster lions, and was a large ark of white marble, eight feet long and four wide and tall, being covered by a smooth black lid. The tomb was usually covered by a silk tapestry, woven in Flanders, bearing the image of the king crowned and armed, with the representation of the arms of Castile and León on the sides, and a crucifix at the head of the tomb.[72]

The tomb that contained the remains of Alfonso VI was destroyed in 1810, during the fire at the Royal Monastery of San Benito. The mortal remains of the king and those of several of his wives were collected and preserved in the abbey chamber until 1821, when the monks were expelled, and were then deposited by the abbot Ramón Alegrías in a box, which was placed in the southern wall of the chapel of the Crucifix until January 1835, when the remains were collected again and placed in another box and taken to the archive where the remains of the wives of the sovereign were at that time. The purpose was to place all the royal remains in a new sanctuary that was being built at that time.[72] However, when the Royal Monastery of San Benito was dissolved in 1835, the monks delivered the two boxes with the royal remains to a relative of one of them, who kept it hidden until 1902, when these were discovered by Rodrigo Fernández Núñez, a professor at the Institute of Zamora Rodrigo.

The mortal remains of Alfonso VI are now in the Monastery of the Benedictine nuns of Sahagún, at the foot of the temple, in a smooth stone ark and with a cover of modern marble, and in a nearby sepulcher, equally smooth, lies the remains of several of the king's wives.

Alfonso married Agnes of Aquitaine, Queen of León and Castile in 1073/74. Agnes was born in 1052; died on 6 Jun 1078. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alfonso married Jimena Muñoz, a royal concubine in Not married. Jimena died in 1128; was buried in San Andrés Monastery, Vega de Espinareda, Castile and León, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alfonso married Constance of Burgundy in 1080/81. Constance (daughter of Robert III "the Old", Duke of Burgundy, Prince of France and Eleanor of Semur-en-Auxois) was born on 8 May 1046; died in Jan 1093 to Feb 1093; was buried in The Monastery of Sahagún, Sahagún, Castile and León, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alfonso married Zaïda of Seville "Isabel", Princess of Seville and Dania in not married. Zaïda was born about 1070 in Dénia, Valencian Community, Spain; died on 12 Sep 1107 in Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alfonso married Berta of Burgundy after 25 Nov 1093. Berta (daughter of William II "the Great", Count of Burgundy and Mâcon and Stephanie of Longwy) died before 15 Jan 1100. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alfonso married Isabel on yes date unknown. Isabel died about 1107. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alfonso married Beatrice of Aquitaine in 1108. Beatrice (daughter of William IV, Count of Poitou and Hildegarde of Burgundy, Duchess consort of Gascony and Aquitaine) died in 1110. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• History: He was also known as Sancho IV. He lived in Uncastillo and Sanguesa, Spain.

Sancho married Constanza of Maranon in 1057 in Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Audregoto. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Alfonso V, King of Castile and León. Alfonso (son of Vermudo II "the Gouty", King of León and Elvira Garcia of Castile) was born in 994 in Spain; died on 7 Aug 1028 in Viseu, Centro, Portugal; was buried in Basilica of San Isidoro, León, Castile and León, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: 1093; Between 1093 and 1134, he was a monk, and was Bishop of Roda-Barbastre in 1134. He had to resign from his religious vocation to give continuity to the dynasty of the Ximenes when his brother died without descendants.
• Reign: From 1134 to 1137; In 1134, Ramiro was crowned The King of Navarre and Aragon. He ruled until 1137.
• Religion: 1137; In 1137, he returned to the cloister.

Notes:

Death: Weis (1982) gives his death date as 1147.

Name:

Ramiro married first wife on Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ramiro married Matilda of Aquitaine on 13 Nov 1135 in Jaca, Aragon, Spain. Matilda (daughter of William VII "the Troubadour", Count of Poitou and Philippa (Mathilde) of Toulouse, Regent of Toulouse) was born about 1100. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• General Information: His name was also spelt Ramon Berenger.

Raymond married Petronilla of Aragon on 11 Aug 1137. Petronilla (daughter of Ramiro II "the Monk", King of Navarre and Aragon and Matilda of Aquitaine) was born on 29 Jun 1136 in Huesca, Aragon, Spain; died on 15 Oct 1173 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Parents: Weis (1982) gives her parents as Raymond IV, Count of Barcelona and Marie.

Death: Weis (1982) gives her death date as 1131.

Berengaria married Alfonso VII, King of Castile and Léon in Nov 1128 in Saldaña, Palencia, Castile and León, Spain. Alfonso (son of Raymond of Burgundy and Ivrea, Count of Castile and Urraca "la Temeraria", Infanta of Castile and León, Countess of Galicia) was born on 1 Mar 1105 in Castile, Spain; died on 21 Aug 1157 in La Fresneda, Aragon, Spain; was buried in Toledo, Castile–La Mancha, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reign: From 1126 to 1185; King of Portugal

Notes:

Name:


He recovered Lisbon from the Moors. He was also the Count of Portugal.

Alfonso married Matilda of Savoy in 1146. Matilda (daughter of Amadeus III, Count of Savoy and Marquis of Maurienne and Matilda d'Albon) died on 4 Dec 1157 in Coimbra, Portugal. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• General Information: He was also the King of Galicia, Toledo, Zaragoza, and the Asturisas.
• Reign: From 1126 to 1157; King of Castile and Léon

Notes:

Name:

Alfonso married Berengaria of Barcelona in Nov 1128 in Saldaña, Palencia, Castile and León, Spain. Berengaria (daughter of Raymond Berenger III "el Grande", Marquis of Barcelona and Count of Provence and Dulce di Gievaudun) died in Feb 1149 in Palencia, Castile and León, Spain; was buried in Santiago de Compostela Cathedral, Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alfonso married Richilde of Poland, Queen of Castile and Léon in Jul 1152. Richilde (daughter of Wladislaw II, King of Poland and Agnes de Babenberg) was born between 1130 and 1140 in Poland; died in 1166. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Name:

Garcia married Margaret de l'Aigle in 1130. Margaret (daughter of Gilbert, Seigneur de l'Aigle and Julienne of Perche) was born about 1104; died on 25 May 1141. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Garcia married Urraca Alfansa of Castile on 24 Jun 1144 in León, Castile and León, Spain. Urraca (daughter of Alfonso VII, King of Castile and Léon and Berengaria of Barcelona) was born after 1126; died on 12 Oct 1189 in Palencia, Castile and León, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Diego, Count of Orviedo. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Christina married Ramiro II Sanchez, Infante of Navarre, Count of Moncon after 1098. Ramiro (son of Sancho Garcia and Constanza of Maranon) was born about 1070; died in Jan 1116 - Feb 1116. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elvira married Raymond IV of Toulouse on yes date unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elvira married Fernando Fernández de Carrión on yes date unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Name:
She was the heiress of the countship of Portugal.

Teresa married Henry I of Burgundy, Count of Portugal in 1093. Henry (son of Henry, Duke of Burgundy and Sibylle of Barcelona) was born in 1035 in Dijon, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France; died on 1 Nov 1112 in Astorga, Castile and León, Spain; was buried in Braga Cathedral, Braga, Norte, Portugal. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• General Information: She was the heiress of Castile and León. Her nickname translates to the Reckless.
• Title(s): 1093; She became the Countess of Galicia.
• Reign: From 1109 to 1126; Queen of Galicia, Castile, León, and Toledo.
• Title(s): 1 Jul 1109; She became the Queen of Galicia, Castile, León, and Toledo.
• Last Full Review: 11 Feb 2021

Notes:

Name:

Urraca married Raymond of Burgundy and Ivrea, Count of Castile in 1087 in Toledo, Castile–La Mancha, Spain. Raymond (son of William II "the Great", Count of Burgundy and Mâcon and Stephanie of Longwy) was born about 1070 in Burgundy, France; died on 24 May 1107 in Grajal de Campos, Castile and León, Spain; was buried in Santiago de Compostela Cathedral, Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Urraca married Alfonso I "the Battler", King of Aragon in Oct 1109 in Monzón Castle, Monzón, Aragon, Spain. Alfonso was born about 1073/74; died on 7 Sep 1134. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Last Full Review: 5 Jul 2021

Other Events and Attributes:

• Last Full Review: 5 Jul 2021

Other Events and Attributes:

• Last Full Review: 5 Jul 2021

Other Events and Attributes:

• Last Full Review: 5 Jul 2021

Other Events and Attributes:

• Last Full Review: 5 Jul 2021

Notes:

Died:
He was killed at the Battle of Uclés.

Sancha married Rodrigo González de Lara, Count of Liébana on yes date unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elvira married Roger II of Sicily, King of Sicily on yes date unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• History: He was also the Lord of Urroz and Moncon. He was disinherited as Infante of Navarre. Ramiro II went on the First Crusade with Raymond of Toulouse.

Ramiro married Christina Diaz after 1098. Christina (daughter of el Cid and Dona Jimena Diaz) was born in 1077. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Fernando Gundemarez. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Death: Weis (1976) gives her death date as 1172, and Stuart (2002) gives her death date as 17 October 1174.

Petronilla married Raymond Berenguer IV, Marquis and Count of Barcelona on 11 Aug 1137. Raymond (son of Raymond Berenger III "el Grande", Marquis of Barcelona and Count of Provence and Dulce di Gievaudun) was born about 1113; died on 6 Aug 1162 in San Dalmacio, near Turin (not found). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• General Information: He was also the Marquis and Count of Barcelona, Tortosa and Lerida; and the Count of Tarragona, Gerona and Cerdagne.
• Reign: From 1163 to 1196; King of Aragon
• Title(s): 1166; Alfonso became the Marquis of Provence in 1166.

Notes:

Birth: Weis (1976) states he was born in 1152.

Name:

Alfonso married Sancha of Castile, Princess of Castile and Léon on 18 Jan 1174/75 in Zaragoza, Spain. Sancha (daughter of Alfonso VII, King of Castile and Léon and Richilde of Poland, Queen of Castile and Léon) was born on 21 Sep 1154; died on 9 Nov 1208 in Villanueva de Sigena, Aragon, Spain; was buried in Royal Monastery of Santa María de Sigena, Villanueva de Sigena, Aragon, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Constance married Louis VII "the Young", King of France in 1153/54. Louis (son of Louis VI "le Gros", King of France and Adelaide of Maurienne) was born in 1120; died on 18 Sep 1180 in Paris, Île-de-France, France; was buried in Basilica of Saint-Denis, St. Denis, Île-de-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Urraca married Garcia IV el Restaurador, King of Navarre on 24 Jun 1144 in León, Castile and León, Spain. Garcia (son of Ramiro II Sanchez, Infante of Navarre, Count of Moncon and Christina Diaz) was born after 1110; died on 21 Nov 1150 in Larca, Murcia, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reign: From 1157 to 1158; King of Castile

Notes:

Name:


He was also known as Sancho II.

Sancho married Blanca of Navarre, Princess of Navarre on 30 Jan 1151 in Logera or Calaharra, Spain. Blanca (daughter of Garcia IV el Restaurador, King of Navarre and Margaret de l'Aigle) was born about 1134; died on 12 Aug 1156. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sancha married Sancho VI "el Sabio", King of Navarre on 20 Jul 1153 in Carrion de los Condes, Castile and León, Spain. Sancho (son of Garcia VII, King of Navarre and Margret de l'Aigle) was born in 1132; died on 27 Jun 1194 in Pamplona, Navarre, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Abt Jul 1175; After her divorce, Urraca became a nun.

Notes:

Death: Weis (1982) gives her death date as 1178.

Name:

Urraca married Fernando II, King of Léon in 1164, and was divorced in Jun 1175. Fernando (son of Alfonso VII, King of Castile and Léon and Richilde of Poland, Queen of Castile and Léon) was born in 1137; died on 22 Jan 1188 in Benavente, Zamora, Castile, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• General Information: She was the Princess of Castile, Léon, Galicia and he Asturias as well as later the Queen of Aragon.

Sancha married Alfonso II, King of Aragon on 18 Jan 1174/75 in Zaragoza, Spain. Alfonso (son of Raymond Berenguer IV, Marquis and Count of Barcelona and Petronilla of Aragon) was born on 25 Mar 1157 in Villa Mayor del Valle, Huesca, Aragon, Spain; died on 25 Apr 1196 in Perpignan, Spain (now France); was buried in Royal Abbey of Santa Maria de Poblet, Conca de Barberà, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reign: From 1157 to 1188; King of Léon, Galicia, and Extremandura

Notes:

Name:


Fernando II was the first king to use the royal symbol of the lion in a truly heraldic form.

Fernando married Urraca, Princess of Portugal in 1164, and was divorced in Jun 1175. Urraca (daughter of Alfonso I "Henriques", King of Portugal and Matilda of Savoy) was born about 1150; died on 16 Oct 1188 in Wamba, Valladolid, Spain; was buried in Santa María de Wamba, Wamba, Valladolid, Spain . [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Fernando married Teresa Fernandez de Traba in Aug 1179. Teresa died on 7 Feb 1180 in León, Castile and León, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Fernando married Urraca Lopez de Haro in May 1187. Urraca died in 1223 in Vileña, Burgos, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• History: birth to death

Notes:

Death: Moriarty (1963) gives her death date as 24 June 1156.

History:
Her name was also spelt Blanche.

Blanca married Sancho III, King of Castile on 30 Jan 1151 in Logera or Calaharra, Spain. Sancho (son of Alfonso VII, King of Castile and Léon and Berengaria of Barcelona) was born in 1134; died on 31 Aug 1158 in Toledo, Castile–La Mancha, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Name:

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• History: Her name was also spelt "Ximina".

Jimena married el Cid on 14 Jul 1074. el (son of Diego Lainez, Senor de Bivar and Teresa Rodrigues) was born about 1043; died in Jul 1099. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Name:

Garcia married Margaret de l'Aigle in 1130. Margaret (daughter of Gilbert, Seigneur de l'Aigle and Julienne of Perche) was born about 1104; died on 25 May 1141. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Garcia married Urraca Alfansa of Castile on 24 Jun 1144 in León, Castile and León, Spain. Urraca (daughter of Alfonso VII, King of Castile and Léon and Berengaria of Barcelona) was born after 1126; died on 12 Oct 1189 in Palencia, Castile and León, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reign: From 1126 to 1185; King of Portugal

Notes:

Name:


He recovered Lisbon from the Moors. He was also the Count of Portugal.

Alfonso married Matilda of Savoy in 1146. Matilda (daughter of Amadeus III, Count of Savoy and Marquis of Maurienne and Matilda d'Albon) died on 4 Dec 1157 in Coimbra, Portugal. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• General Information: He was also the King of Galicia, Toledo, Zaragoza, and the Asturisas.
• Reign: From 1126 to 1157; King of Castile and Léon

Notes:

Name:

Alfonso married Berengaria of Barcelona in Nov 1128 in Saldaña, Palencia, Castile and León, Spain. Berengaria (daughter of Raymond Berenger III "el Grande", Marquis of Barcelona and Count of Provence and Dulce di Gievaudun) died in Feb 1149 in Palencia, Castile and León, Spain; was buried in Santiago de Compostela Cathedral, Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alfonso married Richilde of Poland, Queen of Castile and Léon in Jul 1152. Richilde (daughter of Wladislaw II, King of Poland and Agnes de Babenberg) was born between 1130 and 1140 in Poland; died in 1166. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Diego, Count of Orviedo. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Name:


Buried:
He was buried with papal permission by the hospitalarian knights

Pedro married Marie de Montpellier, Queen of Aragon on 15 Jun 1204. Marie (daughter of William VIII, Seigneur de Montpellier and Eudoxia Comnena) was born in 1182; died on 21 Apr 1213 in Rome, Lazio, Italy; was buried in St. Peter's Basilica, Rome, Lazio, Italy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alfonso married Gersinde of Sabran in 1193. Gersinde (daughter of Raimon de Sabran, Count of Forcalquier and Gersinde) died after 1222. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Married: 2 Nov 1160, Le Neubourg, Évreux, Normandy, France; (1) Henry, Duke of Normandy, the son of Henry II, King of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine, Dutchess of Aquitaine. He was born on 28 February 1155 in Bermondsey, Surrey, England. [Henry married Marguerite of France] He was crowned joint King of England in 14 June 1170. He died on Saturday 11 June 1183 in Château Martel, Touraine, France. He was buried in Rouen Cathedral, Rouen, Normandy, France. Issue: 1. William, Prince of England (1177-c1177)
• History: 1196; After the death of her husband, Béla III, she made a pilgrimage to the holy land.

Marguerite married Béla III, King of Hungary after 24 Aug 1186. Béla (son of Géza II of Hungary, King of Hungary and Euphrosyne Mstislawna of Kiev) was born in 1148; died on 23 Apr 1196 in Hungary; was buried in Székesfehérvár, Central Transdanubia, Hungary. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Contract of Marriage: Jan 1169; Louis and King Henry II of England signed a contract for the marriage between Alys and Henry's son Richard the Lionheart in January 1169. The 8-year-old Alys was then sent to England as Henry's ward. She was said by some to have been seduced by King Henry II. Richard sent her back to her brother, King Philip II of France, refusing to marry his father's mistress. In 1177, Cardinal Peter of Saint Chrysogonus, on behalf of Pope Alexander III, threatened to place England's continental possessions under an interdict if Henry did not proceed with the marriage. There were widespread rumors that Henry had not only made Alys his mistress,[5] but that she had a child with him. Henry died in 1189. King Richard married Berengaria of Navarre on 12 May 1191, while still officially engaged to Alys. Philip had offered Alys to Prince John, but Eleanor prevented the match.
• Contract of Marriage: Mar 1190; Richard I voided his marriage contract with Alice of France in March 1190. She was then 30 years old.
• Last Full Review: 16 Mar 2021

Notes:

Name:

Alys married William III Talvas, Count of Ponthieu and Montreuil on 20 Aug 1195 in Meudon, Île-de-France, France. William (son of Jean I, Count of Ponthieu and Montreuil and Beatrice of Saint Pol) was born in 1179 in France; died on 4 Oct 1221 in France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• General Information: He was also known as Alfonso VIII. He was also the King of Toledo and Extramadura. He was the victor of Los Navas de Tolosa.
• Reign: From 1158 to 1214; King of Castile

Notes:

Name:

Alfonso married Eleanor of England, Princess of England and Queen of Castile in 1170 in Burgos, Castile and León, Spain. Eleanor (daughter of Henry II "Curt Mantel", King of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine, Dutchess of Aquitaine) was born on 13 Oct 1162 in Falaise, Calvados, Normandy, France; died on 25 Oct 1214 in Burgos, Castile and León, Spain; was buried in Abbey of Santa María la Real de Las Huelgas, Burgos, Castile, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Married: 12 May 1191, Limassol, Cyprus; Richard I, King of England, the son of Henry II, King of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine, Dutchess of Aquitaine. He was born on 8 September 1157 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. A contract for the marriage of Richard and Alice Princess of France was signed in 1169. He became Duke of Aquitane in 1170. In 1173, he joined with his brothers in a revolt against his father, which ended the next year. He then set about establishing his authority in the Aquitaine. In 1177, King Louis demanded that he marry the Princess Alice, and the matter was submitted to arbitration. With his brother, Henry’s, death in 1183, he became the heir to the throne of England. Henry II called him to give Aquitaine to his brother John. This lead to another war, which Henry II won. In 1187, King Phillip Augustus lead an army into Barry and besieged John and Richard at Châteauroux. The nobles intervened and prevented an all out battle. He was crowned King of England in 3 September 1189 at Westminster Abbey, London, England. On 11 December 1189, Richard left England on the Third Crusade. While he helped defeat the Moslems at the Battle of Arsuf, they were not strong enough to win Jerusalem. He made peace with Saladin and was allowed to visit Jerusalem. In March 1190, Richard I voided his marriage contract with Alice of France. [Richard, at age 33, married Berengara of Navarre] On his return from the Crusade, he was imprisoned by the Duke of Austria. In 1194, upon the payment of a large ransom, he was released. He arrived back in England 13 March 1194. He died 2 April 1199 having been wounded by an crossbow bolt at the siege of Châlus in Limousin. He was buried in Fontevrault Abbey, Fontevrault, Maine-et-Loire, France.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Miscellaneous: 1199; As her dower, Blanche received Theobald's seven castles – Épernay, Vertus, Sézanne, Chantemerle, Pont-sur-Seine, Nogent-sur-Seine, and Méry-sur-Seine – and all the subsidiaries coming from these castles and castellaries at the Count's death in 1199.
• Offices Held: 24 May 1201; When her husband died, 24 May 1201, she was pregnant. When she gave birth to her son, he immediately became Theobald IV, Count of Champaign. She was to rule as regent for the following 21 years, during which the succession was contested by Theobald's nieces, Alice and Philippa.
• Religion: 1222; When her regency ended in 1222, she withdrew to the Convent of Argensolles.
• Will: say 1228; In her will she left 5 marks of gold to the Cathedral of Reims, which was used to build a statue to contain the Holy Milk of the Virgin.
• Last Full Review: 7 Jul 2020

Blanche married Theobald III, Count of Brie on 1 Jul 1199 in Chartres, Eure-et-Loir, Centre-Val de Loire, France. Theobald (son of Henry I "the Generous", Count of Champagne and Brie and Marie of France, Princess of France) was born on 13 Jan 1179 in Troyes, Aube, Grand Est, France; died on 24 May 1201 in Troyes, Aube, Grand Est, France; was buried in Saint-Étienne, Troyes, Grand Est, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reign: From 1188 to 1229; King of Léon

Notes:

Birth: Moriarty (1963) and Weis (1982) give his birth date as 1166.

Name:

Alfonso married Berengaria of Castile in Dec 1197 in Valladolid, Castile and León, Spain. Berengaria (daughter of Alfonso IX "the Noble", King of Castile and Eleanor of England, Princess of England and Queen of Castile) was born in 1171 in Kingdom of Castile; died on 8 Nov 1244 in Abbey of Santa María la Real de Las Huelgas, Burgos, Castile, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Christina married Ramiro II Sanchez, Infante of Navarre, Count of Moncon after 1098. Ramiro (son of Sancho Garcia and Constanza of Maranon) was born about 1070; died in Jan 1116 - Feb 1116. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• History: birth to death

Notes:

Death: Moriarty (1963) gives her death date as 24 June 1156.

History:
Her name was also spelt Blanche.

Blanca married Sancho III, King of Castile on 30 Jan 1151 in Logera or Calaharra, Spain. Sancho (son of Alfonso VII, King of Castile and Léon and Berengaria of Barcelona) was born in 1134; died on 31 Aug 1158 in Toledo, Castile–La Mancha, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Name:

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• Religion: Abt Jul 1175; After her divorce, Urraca became a nun.

Notes:

Death: Weis (1982) gives her death date as 1178.

Name:

Urraca married Fernando II, King of Léon in 1164, and was divorced in Jun 1175. Fernando (son of Alfonso VII, King of Castile and Léon and Richilde of Poland, Queen of Castile and Léon) was born in 1137; died on 22 Jan 1188 in Benavente, Zamora, Castile, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Constance married Louis VII "the Young", King of France in 1153/54. Louis (son of Louis VI "le Gros", King of France and Adelaide of Maurienne) was born in 1120; died on 18 Sep 1180 in Paris, Île-de-France, France; was buried in Basilica of Saint-Denis, St. Denis, Île-de-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Urraca married Garcia IV el Restaurador, King of Navarre on 24 Jun 1144 in León, Castile and León, Spain. Garcia (son of Ramiro II Sanchez, Infante of Navarre, Count of Moncon and Christina Diaz) was born after 1110; died on 21 Nov 1150 in Larca, Murcia, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reign: From 1157 to 1158; King of Castile

Notes:

Name:


He was also known as Sancho II.

Sancho married Blanca of Navarre, Princess of Navarre on 30 Jan 1151 in Logera or Calaharra, Spain. Blanca (daughter of Garcia IV el Restaurador, King of Navarre and Margaret de l'Aigle) was born about 1134; died on 12 Aug 1156. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sancha married Sancho VI "el Sabio", King of Navarre on 20 Jul 1153 in Carrion de los Condes, Castile and León, Spain. Sancho (son of Garcia VII, King of Navarre and Margret de l'Aigle) was born in 1132; died on 27 Jun 1194 in Pamplona, Navarre, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• General Information: She was the Princess of Castile, Léon, Galicia and he Asturias as well as later the Queen of Aragon.

Sancha married Alfonso II, King of Aragon on 18 Jan 1174/75 in Zaragoza, Spain. Alfonso (son of Raymond Berenguer IV, Marquis and Count of Barcelona and Petronilla of Aragon) was born on 25 Mar 1157 in Villa Mayor del Valle, Huesca, Aragon, Spain; died on 25 Apr 1196 in Perpignan, Spain (now France); was buried in Royal Abbey of Santa Maria de Poblet, Conca de Barberà, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reign: From 1157 to 1188; King of Léon, Galicia, and Extremandura

Notes:

Name:


Fernando II was the first king to use the royal symbol of the lion in a truly heraldic form.

Fernando married Urraca, Princess of Portugal in 1164, and was divorced in Jun 1175. Urraca (daughter of Alfonso I "Henriques", King of Portugal and Matilda of Savoy) was born about 1150; died on 16 Oct 1188 in Wamba, Valladolid, Spain; was buried in Santa María de Wamba, Wamba, Valladolid, Spain . [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Fernando married Teresa Fernandez de Traba in Aug 1179. Teresa died on 7 Feb 1180 in León, Castile and León, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Fernando married Urraca Lopez de Haro in May 1187. Urraca died in 1223 in Vileña, Burgos, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• History: Her name was also spelt "Ximina".

Jimena married el Cid on 14 Jul 1074. el (son of Diego Lainez, Senor de Bivar and Teresa Rodrigues) was born about 1043; died in Jul 1099. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth: Weis (1982) gives his birth year as 1213.

Name:

James married Yolande of Hungary, Princess of Hungary on 8 Sep 1235 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Yolande (daughter of Andrew II, King of Hungary and Yolande de Courtenay, Queen of Hungary and Galicia) was born about 1215 in Hungary; died on 12 Oct 1251 in Monastery of Santa Maria de Vallbona, Urgell, Catalonia, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Raymond married Beatrix of Savoy, Countess of Provence on 5 Jun 1219 in Dez, France (not found). Beatrix (daughter of Thomas I of Savoy, Count of Savoy and Margaret of Geneva) was born in 1198; died in Dec 1266. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• General Information: She was also known as Jeanne of Ponthieu.
• Heir or Heiress: 1225; She was the heiress of Ponthieu and Montreuil.

Marie married Simon II de Dammartin, Count of Aumale in Sep 1208. Simon (son of Alberic III de Dammartin, Count of Dammartin and Île-de-France and Mathilda of Ponthieu) was born about 1180; died on 21 Sep 1239 in Abbeville, Somme, Hauts-de-France, France; was buried in Valloire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Matthew de Montgomery, Seigneur de Montmorency. Matthew died in Feb 1250. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Last Full Review: 16 Mar 2021

Other Events and Attributes:

• General Information: He was stillborn.
• Last Full Review: 16 Mar 2021

Notes:

Birth: Stuart (2002) states she was born in 1180.

Name:
She was the heiress of Castile.

Family/Spouse: first husband. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Berengaria married Alfonso IX "el Barboro", King of Léon in Dec 1197 in Valladolid, Castile and León, Spain. Alfonso (son of Fernando II, King of Léon and Urraca, Princess of Portugal) was born on 15 Aug 1171 in Zamora, Léon, Spain; died on 24 Sep 1230 in Villanueva de Sigena, Aragon, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• General Information: Blanche of Castile served as the regent during the minority of her son, Louis IX.

Notes:

Death: Moriarty (1963) gives her death date as 1 December 1262.

Blanche married Louis VIII "the Lion", King of France on 23 May 1200 in Bapaume, Hauts-de-France, France. Louis (son of Philip II "Augustus", King of France and Isabella of Hainaut) was born on 5 Sep 1187 in Paris, Île-de-France, France; died on 8 Nov 1226 in Château de Montpensier, Montpensier, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France; was buried in Basilica of Saint-Denis, St. Denis, Île-de-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Treaty: say 1222; One of the conditions of Blanche's treaty with Philip II confirming her son's inheritance was that Marie had to be sent away to be raised in the royal court at Paris.
• Last Full Review: 7 Jul 2020

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reign: From 1234 to 1253; King of Navarre
• Military: Between 1239 and 1240; He was a Crusader.

Notes:

Name:
   

He was also the Count of Brie and Bar-sur-Seine.

Family/Spouse: first wife. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: second wife. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Theobald married Marguerite de Bourbon on 12 Sep 1232. Marguerite (daughter of Archambaud VIII de Bourbon "the Great", Seigneur de Bourbon and Beatrice de Montculon) was born about 1211; died on 12 Apr 1256 in Provins, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reign: From 1217 to 1252; King of Castile, Toledo, and Extremadura
• Reign: From 1230 to 1252; King of Léon, Galicia, and Cordoba
• Canonized: 1671; He was canonized by Pope Clement X.

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Birth: Weis (1982) gives his birth as 1191.

Birth: Evans (1931) gives his birth as 1199.

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Family/Spouse: Ethisa von Hohenstauffen. Ethisa (daughter of Philip II von Hohenstauffen, Emperor of Germany and Irene Angelica, Queen of Sicily) died about 1234. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ferdinand married Jeanne de Dammartin, Countess of Ponthieu in 1237 in Burgos, Castile and León, Spain. Jeanne (daughter of Simon II de Dammartin, Count of Aumale and Marie of Ponthieu, Countess of Ponthieu and Montreuil) was born between 1208 and 1220; died on 16 Mar 1279 in Abbeville, Somme, Hauts-de-France, France; was buried in Valloires Abbey, Argoules, Hauts-de-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Berenguela married Jean de Brienne, King of Jerusalem and Latin Emperor of Constantinople in 1223. Jean was born about 1168; died on 21 Mar 1237. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Garcia married Margaret de l'Aigle in 1130. Margaret (daughter of Gilbert, Seigneur de l'Aigle and Julienne of Perche) was born about 1104; died on 25 May 1141. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Garcia married Urraca Alfansa of Castile on 24 Jun 1144 in León, Castile and León, Spain. Urraca (daughter of Alfonso VII, King of Castile and Léon and Berengaria of Barcelona) was born after 1126; died on 12 Oct 1189 in Palencia, Castile and León, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• General Information: He was also known as Alfonso VIII. He was also the King of Toledo and Extramadura. He was the victor of Los Navas de Tolosa.
• Reign: From 1158 to 1214; King of Castile

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Alfonso married Eleanor of England, Princess of England and Queen of Castile in 1170 in Burgos, Castile and León, Spain. Eleanor (daughter of Henry II "Curt Mantel", King of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine, Dutchess of Aquitaine) was born on 13 Oct 1162 in Falaise, Calvados, Normandy, France; died on 25 Oct 1214 in Burgos, Castile and León, Spain; was buried in Abbey of Santa María la Real de Las Huelgas, Burgos, Castile, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reign: From 1188 to 1229; King of Léon

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Birth: Moriarty (1963) and Weis (1982) give his birth date as 1166.

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Alfonso married Berengaria of Castile in Dec 1197 in Valladolid, Castile and León, Spain. Berengaria (daughter of Alfonso IX "the Noble", King of Castile and Eleanor of England, Princess of England and Queen of Castile) was born in 1171 in Kingdom of Castile; died on 8 Nov 1244 in Abbey of Santa María la Real de Las Huelgas, Burgos, Castile, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Married: 2 Nov 1160, Le Neubourg, Évreux, Normandy, France; (1) Henry, Duke of Normandy, the son of Henry II, King of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine, Dutchess of Aquitaine. He was born on 28 February 1155 in Bermondsey, Surrey, England. [Henry married Marguerite of France] He was crowned joint King of England in 14 June 1170. He died on Saturday 11 June 1183 in Château Martel, Touraine, France. He was buried in Rouen Cathedral, Rouen, Normandy, France. Issue: 1. William, Prince of England (1177-c1177)
• History: 1196; After the death of her husband, Béla III, she made a pilgrimage to the holy land.

Marguerite married Béla III, King of Hungary after 24 Aug 1186. Béla (son of Géza II of Hungary, King of Hungary and Euphrosyne Mstislawna of Kiev) was born in 1148; died on 23 Apr 1196 in Hungary; was buried in Székesfehérvár, Central Transdanubia, Hungary. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Contract of Marriage: Jan 1169; Louis and King Henry II of England signed a contract for the marriage between Alys and Henry's son Richard the Lionheart in January 1169. The 8-year-old Alys was then sent to England as Henry's ward. She was said by some to have been seduced by King Henry II. Richard sent her back to her brother, King Philip II of France, refusing to marry his father's mistress. In 1177, Cardinal Peter of Saint Chrysogonus, on behalf of Pope Alexander III, threatened to place England's continental possessions under an interdict if Henry did not proceed with the marriage. There were widespread rumors that Henry had not only made Alys his mistress,[5] but that she had a child with him. Henry died in 1189. King Richard married Berengaria of Navarre on 12 May 1191, while still officially engaged to Alys. Philip had offered Alys to Prince John, but Eleanor prevented the match.
• Contract of Marriage: Mar 1190; Richard I voided his marriage contract with Alice of France in March 1190. She was then 30 years old.
• Last Full Review: 16 Mar 2021

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Alys married William III Talvas, Count of Ponthieu and Montreuil on 20 Aug 1195 in Meudon, Île-de-France, France. William (son of Jean I, Count of Ponthieu and Montreuil and Beatrice of Saint Pol) was born in 1179 in France; died on 4 Oct 1221 in France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Married: 12 May 1191, Limassol, Cyprus; Richard I, King of England, the son of Henry II, King of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine, Dutchess of Aquitaine. He was born on 8 September 1157 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. A contract for the marriage of Richard and Alice Princess of France was signed in 1169. He became Duke of Aquitane in 1170. In 1173, he joined with his brothers in a revolt against his father, which ended the next year. He then set about establishing his authority in the Aquitaine. In 1177, King Louis demanded that he marry the Princess Alice, and the matter was submitted to arbitration. With his brother, Henry’s, death in 1183, he became the heir to the throne of England. Henry II called him to give Aquitaine to his brother John. This lead to another war, which Henry II won. In 1187, King Phillip Augustus lead an army into Barry and besieged John and Richard at Châteauroux. The nobles intervened and prevented an all out battle. He was crowned King of England in 3 September 1189 at Westminster Abbey, London, England. On 11 December 1189, Richard left England on the Third Crusade. While he helped defeat the Moslems at the Battle of Arsuf, they were not strong enough to win Jerusalem. He made peace with Saladin and was allowed to visit Jerusalem. In March 1190, Richard I voided his marriage contract with Alice of France. [Richard, at age 33, married Berengara of Navarre] On his return from the Crusade, he was imprisoned by the Duke of Austria. In 1194, upon the payment of a large ransom, he was released. He arrived back in England 13 March 1194. He died 2 April 1199 having been wounded by an crossbow bolt at the siege of Châlus in Limousin. He was buried in Fontevrault Abbey, Fontevrault, Maine-et-Loire, France.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Miscellaneous: 1199; As her dower, Blanche received Theobald's seven castles – Épernay, Vertus, Sézanne, Chantemerle, Pont-sur-Seine, Nogent-sur-Seine, and Méry-sur-Seine – and all the subsidiaries coming from these castles and castellaries at the Count's death in 1199.
• Offices Held: 24 May 1201; When her husband died, 24 May 1201, she was pregnant. When she gave birth to her son, he immediately became Theobald IV, Count of Champaign. She was to rule as regent for the following 21 years, during which the succession was contested by Theobald's nieces, Alice and Philippa.
• Religion: 1222; When her regency ended in 1222, she withdrew to the Convent of Argensolles.
• Will: say 1228; In her will she left 5 marks of gold to the Cathedral of Reims, which was used to build a statue to contain the Holy Milk of the Virgin.
• Last Full Review: 7 Jul 2020

Blanche married Theobald III, Count of Brie on 1 Jul 1199 in Chartres, Eure-et-Loir, Centre-Val de Loire, France. Theobald (son of Henry I "the Generous", Count of Champagne and Brie and Marie of France, Princess of France) was born on 13 Jan 1179 in Troyes, Aube, Grand Est, France; died on 24 May 1201 in Troyes, Aube, Grand Est, France; was buried in Saint-Étienne, Troyes, Grand Est, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Pedro married Marie de Montpellier, Queen of Aragon on 15 Jun 1204. Marie (daughter of William VIII, Seigneur de Montpellier and Eudoxia Comnena) was born in 1182; died on 21 Apr 1213 in Rome, Lazio, Italy; was buried in St. Peter's Basilica, Rome, Lazio, Italy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alfonso married Gersinde of Sabran in 1193. Gersinde (daughter of Raimon de Sabran, Count of Forcalquier and Gersinde) died after 1222. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Christina married Ramiro II Sanchez, Infante of Navarre, Count of Moncon after 1098. Ramiro (son of Sancho Garcia and Constanza of Maranon) was born about 1070; died in Jan 1116 - Feb 1116. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]