Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Alfonso VII, King of Leon and Castile

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Name Alfonso VII Suffix King of Leon and Castile Born 1 Mar 1105 Caldas de Reyes, Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain [1, 2]
Gender Male Died 21 Aug 1157 Fresneda, Teruel, Aragon, Spain [1, 3]
Buried Cathedral Santa Maria, Toledo, Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain [3]
Person ID I10069 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP, Ancestor of DDB, Ancestor of EK, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of LDN, Ancestor of TNH, Ancestor of TSW, Ancestor of TWK Last Modified 3 Aug 2020
Father Raymond of Burgundy, b. Abt 1060, d. 26 Mar 1107 (Age ~ 47 years) Mother Urraca, Queen of Galicia, Castile, Leon, and Toledo, b. 24 Jun 1081, León, León, Spain , d. 8 Mar 1126, Saldaña, Palencia, Castilla-Leon, Spain
(Age 44 years)
Married Between Dec 1092 and Jan 1093 Toledo, Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain [3]
Family ID F5043 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Gontrada Perez, d. 1186 Children + 1. Urraca Alfonso, b. Aft 1126, d. Aft Aug 1179 (Age > 52 years) Last Modified 3 Aug 2020 Family ID F17370 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 2 Berenguela of Barcelona, b. Abt 1114, d. 15 Jan 1149, Palencia, Castile, Spain (Age ~ 35 years)
Married Nov 1128 Saldaña, Palencia, Castilla-Leon, Spain [3, 5]
Children + 1. Sancho III, King of Nájera, Castile, and Toledo, b. 1134, d. 31 Aug 1158, Toledo, Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain (Age 24 years)
+ 2. Fernando II, King of Leon, Galicia, and Extremadura, b. 1137, d. 22 Jan 1188, Benavente, Italy (Age 51 years)
+ 3. Constance of Castile, Queen Consort of France, b. Abt 1138, d. 4 Oct 1160, France (Age ~ 22 years)
+ 4. Sancha of Castile, Queen Consort of Navarre, b. Abt 1139, d. 1179 (Age ~ 40 years) Last Modified 16 Jun 2018 Family ID F3302 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 3 Richeza of Poland, b. Abt 1135, d. 16 Oct 1185 (Age ~ 50 years) Married Between 23 Oct 1152 and 21 Dec 1152 [3] Children + 1. Sancha of Castile, b. 21 Sep 1154, Toledo, Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain , d. 9 Nov 1208, Villanueva de Sigena, Huesca, Aragón, Spain
(Age 54 years)
Last Modified 30 Nov 2015 Family ID F2641 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - Called "Emperor" (Emperador).
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Sources - [S145] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. 8th edition, William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, 2006, 2008., date only.
- [S858] Szabolcs de Vajay, "From Alfonso VII to Alfonso X: The First Two Centuries of the Burgundian Dynasty in Castile and Leon -- A Prosopographical Catalogue in Social Genealogy, 1100-1300." Studies in Genealogy and Family History in Tribute to Charles Evans on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday ed. Lindsay L. Brook. Salt Lake City: Association for the Promotion of Scholarship in Genealogy, 1989., date and "Galicia" only.
- [S858] Szabolcs de Vajay, "From Alfonso VII to Alfonso X: The First Two Centuries of the Burgundian Dynasty in Castile and Leon -- A Prosopographical Catalogue in Social Genealogy, 1100-1300." Studies in Genealogy and Family History in Tribute to Charles Evans on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday ed. Lindsay L. Brook. Salt Lake City: Association for the Promotion of Scholarship in Genealogy, 1989.
- [S49] Genealogics, by Leo Van de Pas.
- [S846] Spanish-language Wikipedia.
- [S145] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. 8th edition, William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, 2006, 2008., date only.