Berenguela de Barcelona

Events

Date of Birth: about 1108.

Place of Birth: unknown.

The date is given by Recuero Astray. Salazar y Acha (p. 149) gives about 1114.

Date of Death: February 1149.

Place of Death: Palencia.

The date and place are given by Recuero Astray.

Relationships

Father: Ramón Berenguer (III) “el Grande” de Barcelona.

This relationship is given by Vones-Liebenstein, by Salazar y Acha (p. 149), and by Recuero Astray (DBe).

Mother: Dulce, countess of Provence.

This relationship is given by Vones-Liebenstein, by Salazar y Acha (p. 149), and by Recuero Astray (DBe).

Spouse: Alfonso VII de León.

This relationship is given by Vones-Liebenstein, by Salazar y Acha (p. 149), and by Recuero Astray (DBe).

Children:

(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 (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 - 8 October 1160) married in 1154 Louis VII, king of France.

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

García de Castilla (before March 1142 - about 1146).

Alfonso de Castilla (about 1144 - before 1149).

References

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

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

Recuero Astray, José Manuel. “Berenguela Berenguer” in Diccionario Biográfico electrónico (Real Academia de la Historia).

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

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

Online Biographies

Berenguela Berenguer (Diccionario Biográfico electrónico; Real Academia de la Historia)