Alfonso IX, king of León

King of León

King of Galicia

King of Castille

Events

Date of Birth: 15 August 1171.

Place of Birth: Zamora.

The date and place are given by Salazar y Acha (p. 257).

Date of Death: 24 September 1230.

Place of Death: Villanueva de Sarría.

The date and place are given by Salazar y Acha (p. 257).

Place of Burial: Santiago de Compostela, cathedral Santiago el Mayor.

The place is given by Salazar y Acha (p. 257).

Relationships

Father: Fernando II, king of León.

This relationship is given by by Salazar y Acha (p. 254), by Barton (p. 20), and by Saéz.

Mother: Urraca de Portugal.

This relationship is given by by Salazar y Acha (p. 254) and by Saéz.

Spouse: Teresa de Portugal.

This relationship is given by by Salazar y Acha (p. 254) and by Saéz.

Spouse: Berenguela de Castilla.

This relationship is given by by Salazar y Acha (p. 254), by Barton (p. 22), and by Saéz.

Mistress: unknown.

This relationship is given by Salazar y Acha (p. 260).

Mistress: Inés Íñiguez de Mendoza.

This relationship is given by Salazar y Acha (p. 261).

Mistress: Aldonza Martínez de Silva.

This relationship is given by Salazar y Acha (p. 261).

Mistress: Estefanía Pérez.

This relationship is given by Salazar y Acha (p. 261).

Mistress: Maura.

This relationship is given by Salazar y Acha (p. 262).

Mistress: Teresa Gil de Soverosa.

This relationship is given by Salazar y Acha (p. 263).

Children (by Teresa de Portugal):

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Sancha (1191 - before 1243).

Fernando (1192 or 1193 - August 1214).

Dulce (1193 or 1194 - 1248).

Children (by Berenguela):

Leonor (1198 - 12 November 1202).

Constanza (1 May 1200 - 7 September 1242), nun.

Fernando III “el Santo” (1201 - 30 May 1252), king of Castile, León, and Galicia, married (1) Elisabeth von Staufen; married (2) Jeanne de Dammartin.

Alfonso (1202 - 6 January 1272) married (1) Mafalda Gonzáldez de Lara; (2) Teresa González de Lara; (3) Mayor Alfonso de Meneses.

Berenguela (1204 - 12 April 1237) married Jean de Brienne, king of Jerusalem, emperor of Constantinople.

Children (by an unknown mistress):

Pedro Alfonso (about 1196 - 1226)

Children (by Inès):

Urraca (born 1197) married Lope Díaz de Haro.

Children (by Aldonza):

Rodrigo (born about 1210) married Inès Rodríguez de Cabrera.

Aldonza (born about 1212) married (1) Diego Ramírez Froilaz; married (2) Pedro Ponce.

Children (by Estefanía):

Fernando (born about 1211, died young).

Children (by Maura):

Fernando.

Children (by Teresa Gil):

Sancha (1220 - 25 July 1270) married Simón Rodríguez de los Cameros.

María (about 1222 - after 1252) married (1) Álvar Fernández de Lara; married (2) Suero Arias de Valladares.

Martín (born about 1225) married Maria Mendes de Sousa.

Urraca (1228 - after 1252) married (1) García Romeu II; married (2) Pedro Núñez de Guzmán.

References

Barton, Simon. The Aristocracy in Twelfth-Century León and Castile, (Cambridge University Press, 1997).

Cokayne, G.E., and G.W. Watson. The Seize Quartiers of the Kings and Queens of England. (1896).

Saéz, E. "Alfons IX, König von León" in Lexikon des Mittelalters Band 1 (Stuttgart 1980).

Salazar y Acha, Jaime de. Las dinastías reales de España en la Edad Media. (Real Academia de la Historia, 2021).