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Alfonso VII "el Emperador" Raimúndez Rey de Galicia, Castilla, Leán
(1105-1157)
Berenguela Raimundo de Barcelona
(-1148/9)
Afonso I "O Conquistador" Henriques Rey de Portugal,
(1006/11-1185)
Matilda de Maurienne de Savoy
(Abt 1125-1157)
Ferdinand II Alfonsez Rey de León
(1137-1188)
Urraca Alfonsez Princesa de Portugal y Reina de España
(Abt 1150-1188)

Alfonso IX "el Barboro" Fernández Rey de León y Castile, `The Slobberer'
(1171-1230)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Berenguela Alfonsez Reina de Castilla

2. Aldonza Matínez de Silva

Alfonso IX "el Barboro" Fernández Rey de León y Castile, `The Slobberer'

  • Born: 15 Aug 1171, Zamora, León, Iberia
  • Marriage (1): Berenguela Alfonsez Reina de Castilla in Dec 1197 in Valencia, España
  • Partnership (2): Aldonza Matínez de Silva
  • Died: 23 Sep 1230, Villanueva de Sarriá, Lugo, España at age 59 1078
  • Buried: Catedral Santiago el Mayor, Santiago de Compostela

bullet  Noted events in his life were:

• Web Reference:
Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands Alfonso de León Rey de León was the son of Fernando II Rey de León and doña Urraca de Portugal. Alfonso married, first Teresa de Portugal, a marriage later annulled for consanguinity. His next wife was doña Berenguela de Castilla, the daughter of Alfonso VII rey de Castilla and Eleanor of England. She too was his first cousin. He also had children with mistresses such as Ynés Iñiguez de Mendoza, daughter of Iñigo López de Mendoza; Aldonza Martínez de Silva, daughter of Martín Gómez de Silva and his wife Urraca Ruíz de Cabrera; Estefanía Pérez, dauther of Pedro Arias de Limia and second wife Constanza Osorio; and Teresa Gil de Soverosa, daughter of Gil Vásqyez de Soverosa and wife María Arias Fornelos. "The Chronicle of Alberic de Trois-Fontaines names "Aldefonsus rex Legionis" as son of "Fernando (frater regis Sanctii)" [Chronica Albrici Monachi Trium Fontium 1143, MGH SS XXIII, p. 837]. The Chronicon de Cardeña records that "Rey Don Alfonso de León" married "Don Alfonso…so fija Doña Berenguela" [Chronicon de Cardeña, España Sagrada XXIII, p. 378]. The Nobiliario of Pedro Conde de Barcelos names "Doña Aldonça Martinez de Silva" as the mother of King Alfonso´s three children," one of whom was Rodrigo Alfonso de León [Pedro Barcelos, Tit. IV, Reyes de Castilla, 12 p. 9, and 11, p. 327], married to Ynés Rodríguez de Cabrera [ Pedro Barcelos, Tit. IV, Reyes de Castilla, 13 p. 18, and Tit. XII, Cabrera, 6 p. 94].

• Background Information:
Alfonso IX of León from Wikipedia



Cathedral of Santiago of Compostela
Afonso IX, king of León


Alfonso married Berenguela Alfonsez Reina de Castilla, daughter of Alfonso VIII Sánchez Rey de Castilla and Eleanor Plantagenêt Princess of England, Queen de Castila, in Dec 1197 in Valencia, España. (Berenguela Alfonsez Reina de Castilla was born in 1171-1181 in Segovia, Castilla, España 1078 and died on 8 Nov 1244 in Las Huelgas, Castile, España 1078.)


Alfonso had a relationship with Aldonza Matínez de Silva, daughter of Martín Gómez de Silva and Urraca Ruíz de Cabrera.


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