Alfonso V, King of Castile and León

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

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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]

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• Last Full Review: 31 May 2021

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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]

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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

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

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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]

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

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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]

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• 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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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]

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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

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• Last Full Review: 5 Jul 2021

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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]

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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]