Alfonso VI "el Bravo", king of León, Castile, and Navarre
King of León
King of Castile
King of Navarre
Events
Date of Birth: uncertain.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Martínez Díez (pp. 9-10) argues for a date in late 1047 or early 1048. Saéz gives June 1040. Reilly (p. 20) states that Alfonso was probably born in 1037.
Date of Death: 1 July 1109.
Place of Death: Toledo.
The date is given by Reilly (p. 363), who discusses the evidence. Martínez Díez (DBe) gives 30 May 1109 as does Salazar y Acha (2021, p. 106).
Date of Burial: 21 July 1109.
Place of Burial: the royal monastery of Sahagún, León.
The date and place are given by Reilly (p. 363).
Relationships
Father: Fernando I “el Magno”, king of Castile.
This relationship is given by Salazar y Acha (2021, p. 106), by Barton (p. 13), and by Saéz.
Mother: Sancha de León.
This relationship is given by Salazar y Acha (2021, p. 106) and by Saéz.
Spouse: Agnès d’Aquitaine. Married in late 1073 or early 1074.
This relationship is given by Martínez Díez (DBe), by Salazar y Acha (2021, p. 106), and by Reilly (p. 79).
Spouse: Constance de Bourgogne. Married late fall or early winter 1079.
This relationship is given by Martínez Díez (DBe), by Salazar y Acha (2021, p. 106), and by Reilly (p. 108).
Spouse: Berta. Married December 1094.
This relationship is given by Martínez Díez (DBe), by Salazar y Acha (2021, p. 106), and by Reilly (p. 249).
Spouse: Elizabeth. Married 1100, by 14 May.
This relationship is given by Reilly (p. 296).
Spouse: Zaïda (Elizabeth). Married 1106, perhaps on Easter Monday (26 March).
This relationship is given by Cokayne (p. 82) and by Reilly (p. 234). Martínez Díez (DBe) makes the two Elizabeths identical, as does Salazar y Acha (p. 106).
Spouse: Beatrix. Married in 1108.
This relationship is given by Cokayne (p. 82), by Salazar y Acha (2021, p. 106), and by Reilly (p. 345). Reilly states that the marriage was probably in the week following Easter (5 April) 1108.
Partner: Jimena Muñoz.
This relationship is given by Martínez Díez, and by Salazar y Acha (2021, p. 108).
Children (by Constance):
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Martínez Díez.)
Urraca I (1080 - 8 March 1126), queen of Castile and León, married (1) Raymond de Bourgogne, count of Galicia; married (2) Alfonso I, king of Aragón and Navarre.
Children (by Zaïda):
Sancho (September 1093 - 29 May 1108).
Sancha (born about 1102) married Rodrigo González de Lara.
Elvira (born about September 1103 - died 8 February 1135) married Roger II, king of Sicily.
Children (by Jimena):
Elvira (born about 1079 - died 30 September, after 1151) married (1) Raymond IV, count of Toulouse; married (2) Fernando Fernández.
Teresa (1081 or 1082 - 1 November 1130) married Henri de Bourgogne.
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).
Martínez Díez, Gonzalo. "Alfonso VI" in Diccionario Biográfico electrónico (Real Academia de la Historia).
Martínez Díez, Gonzalo. Alfonso VI: Señor del Cid, Conquistador de Toledo. (Temas de Hoy, 2003).
Reilly, Bernard F. The Kingdom of León-Castilla under King Alfonso VI, 1065-1109 (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1988).
Saéz, E. "Alfons VI, König von León und Kastilien" in Lexikon des Mittelalters Band 1 (Stuttgart 1980).
Salazar y Acha, Jaime de. “Política Matrimonial de Alfonso VI de Castilla” in Anales de la Real Academia Matritense de Heráldica y Genealogía. Volume 2 (1992-1993).
Salazar y Acha, Jaime de. Las dinastías reales de España en la Edad Media. (Real Academia de la Historia, 2021).