Alfonso VII, king of Castile, Leon, and Galicia

King of Castile, Leon, and Galicia

“Emperor of All Spain”

Events

Date of Birth: 1 March 1105.

Place of Birth: Galicia.

The date is given by Reilly (p. 338).

Date of Death: 21 August 1157.

Place of Death: in the area of La Fresneda.

The date and place are given by Saéz and by Recuero Astray (p. 301).

Relationships

Father: Raymond de Bourgogne, count of Galicia.

This relationship is given by Cokayne (p. 80), by Recuero Astray (p. 9), by Barton (p. 13), by Vones-Liebenstein, and by Saéz.

Mother: Urraca, queen of Castile.

This relationship is given by Cokayne (p. 80), by Recuero Astray (p. 9), by Barton (p. 13), by Vones-Liebenstein, and by Saéz.

Spouse: Berenguela de Barcelona. Married November 1128 in Saldaña.

This relationship is given by Recuero Astray (pp. 94-96), by Salazar y Acha (p. 249), and by Vones-Liebenstein.

Spouse: Ryksa śląska (Richeza of Silesia). Married 1152.

This relationship is given by Recuero Astray (pp. 289-291), by Vones-Liebenstein, and by Salazar y Acha (p. 249).

Mistress: Gontrodo Pérez.

This relationship is given by Recuero Astray (p. 183) and by Salazar y Acha (p. 249).

Mistress: Urraca Fernández de Castro.

This relationship is given by Salazar y Acha (p. 249).

Children (by Berenguela):

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Sancho de Castilla (1134 - 31 August or 1 September 1158), later Sancho III “el Deseado”, king of Castile and Toledo, married on 30 January 1151 in Calahorra Blanca de Navarra.

Ramón de Castilla y León (born 1135, died young).

Fernando de Castilla y León (1137 - 22 January 1188), later Fernando II, king of León, Galicia, and Extremadura, married (1) in 1165 Urraca de Portugal; married (2) in 1172 or 1173 Teresa Núñez de Lara; married (3) in May 1187 Urraca López de Haro.

Constanza de Castilla (about 1138 - 4 October 1160) married in 1154 Louis VII, king of France.

Sancha de Castilla (1139 - 5 August 1177) married Sancho VI “el Sabio”, king of Navarre.

García de Castilla (1141/1142 - about 1146).

Alfonso de Castilla (about 1145 - before 1149).

Children (by Ryksa):

Fernando de Castilla (1153 - 1157).

Sancha de Castilla (1155 - 9 November 1208) married on 18 January 1174 in Zaragoza Alfonso II “el Casto”, king of Aragon.

Children (by Gontrodo):

Urraca Alfonso de Castillla (1132 - 26 October 1164) married (1) on 24 June 1144 in León García VI Ramírez “el Restaurador”, king of Navarre; married (2) Álvaro Rodríguez de Castro.

Children (by Urraca):

Estefanía Alfonso “la Desdichada” (born 1148 - murdered 1 July 1180) married in 1168 Fernando Rodríguez de Castro.

References

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

Cawley, Charles. “Infante don ALFONSO de Castilla y León” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

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

Reilly, Bernard F. The Kingdom of León-Castilla under King Alfonso VI, 1065-1109 (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1988).

Recuero Astray, Manuel. Alfonso VII (1266-1157) (Burgos: Editorial La Olmeda, S.L, 2003).

Recuero Astray, Manuel. "Alfonso VII" in Diccionario Biográfico electrónico (Real Academia de la Historia).

Saéz, E. "Alfons VII, König von León und Kastilien" 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).

Vones-Liebenstein, Ursula. Kastilien-Leon genealogical table in volume 9 of Lexikon des Mittelalters. Munich: LexMA-Verlag, 1980-1998.