Also known as D. Afonso Henriques and Afonso the Conqueror.
Events
Date of Birth: 25 July 1110.
Place of Birth: Guimaraes.
The date and place are given by Salazar y Acha (p. 371). Briesemeister gives between 1107 and 1111.
Date of Death: 6 December 1185.
Place of Death: Coimbra.
The date and place are given by Salazar y Acha (p. 371), and tentatively by Briesemeister.
Place of Burial: Coimbra, Church of the Cross.
The place is given by Briesemeister.
Relationships
Father: Henrique, count of Portugal.
This relationship is given by Salazar y Acha (p. 371), by Barton (p. 13), and by Briesemeister.
Mother: Teresa de Castilla y León.
This relationship is given by Salazar y Acha (p. 371), by Barton (p. 13), and by Briesemeister.
Spouse: Mathilde de Savoie.
This relationship is given by Salazar y Acha (p. 371) and by Briesemeister.
Mistress: Elvira Gualtar.
This relationship is given by Salazar y Acha (p. 372).
Children (by Mathilde):
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Henrique (5 March 1147 - before 1156).
Mafalda (about 1149 - 1173 or 1174).
Urraca (about 1151 - 16 October 1188) married Fernando II, king of León.
Sancha (born about 1153).
Sancho I “el Poblador” (11 November 1154 - 26 March 1212), king of Portugal, married (1) Dulcia de Aragón.
João (born about 1156 - died young).
Teresa (1157 - 6 May 1218) married (1) Philippe, count of Flanders; married (2) Eudes III, duke of Burgundy.
Children (by Elvira):
Urraca married Pedro Afonso.
Children (illegitimate):
Fernando (born about 1138).
Pedro (born about 1140 - died 9 May 1175.
Afonso (born about 1145 - died 1 March 1207).
References
Barton, Simon. The Aristocracy in Twelfth-Century León and Castile, (Cambridge University Press, 1997).
Briesemeister, D. "Alfons I.'der Eroberer' (Affonso Henriques), König von Portugal" in Lexikon des Mittelalters Band 1 (Stuttgart 1980).
Cokayne, G.E., and G.W. Watson. The Seize Quartiers of the Kings and Queens of England. (1896).
Salazar y Acha, Jaime de. Las dinastías reales de España en la Edad Media. (Real Academia de la Historia, 2021).