Berenguela de Castilla

Also known as Berengaria.

Events

Date of Birth: the end of 1179 or the beginning of 1180.

(probable) Place of Birth: Burgos.

The date and place are given by Salvador Martínez (p. 71).

Date of Death: 8 November 1246.

Place of Death: Las Huelgas, near Burgos.

The date and place are given by Salvador Martínez (pp.752-760).

Place of Burial: Las Huelgas, Cistercian monastery of Santa María la Real.

The place is given by Salvador Martínez (p. 758), and by Martínez Diez (p. 50).

Relationships

Father: Alfonso VIII “el Noble”, king of Castile.

This relationship is given by Salvador Martínez (pp. 71-80), by González (1:197), by Barton (p. 13), and by Martínez Diez (p. 47).

Mother: Eleanor of England.

This relationship is given by Salvador Martínez (pp. 71-80), by González (1:197), and by Martínez Diez (p. 47).

Spouse: Konrad von Staufen, duke of Swabia. Contract 23 April 1188, not consummated.

This relationship is given by Salvador Martínez and by Salazar y Acha (p. 250).

Spouse: Alfonso IX, king of León. Married 17 November 1197, annulled 1204.

This relationship is given by Salvador Martínez (pp. 174-177), by Barton (p. 13), and by Martínez Diez (p. 47).

Children (by Alfonso):

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

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.

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).

González, Julio. El reino de Castilla en la época de Alfonso VIII (Madrid, 1960).

Martínez Diez, Gonzalo. Alfonso VIII, Rey de Castilla y Toledo (Burgos: Editorial la Olmeda, S.L., 1995).

Martínez Díez, Gonzalo. "Benguela de Castilla," in Diccionario Biográfico electrónico (Real Academia de la Historia).

Salvador Martínez, H. Berenguela la Grande y su época 1180-1246 (Madrid: Ediciones Polifemo, 2012).

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.

Online Biographies

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

Berengaria of Castile (Wikipedia)