Alfonso VII, King of Leon and Castile

1105 - 1157  (52 years)

• Name	Alfonso VII
  Suffix	King of Leon and Castile
  Birth	1 Mar 1105	Caldas de Reyes, Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	21 Aug 1157	Fresneda, Teruel, Aragon, Spain   [1, 3]
  Burial	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 DGH, Ancestor of DK, Ancestor of EK, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of LDN, Ancestor of LMW, Ancestor of TNH, Ancestor of TSW, Ancestor of TWK, Ancestor of UKL, Ancestor of WPF
  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)
  Marriage	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)
  Family ID	F17370	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Aug 2020

  
  

  Family 2	Berenguela of Barcelona,   b. Abt 1114   d. 15 Jan 1149, Palencia, Castile, Spain (Age ~ 35 years)
  Marriage	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. Sancha of Castile, Queen Consort of Navarre,   b. Abt 1139   d. 1179 (Age ~ 40 years) + 4. Constance of Castile, Queen Consort of France,   b. Aft 1140   d. 4 Oct 1160, France (Age < 18 years)
  Family ID	F3302	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Jun 2018

  
  

  Family 3	Richeza of Poland,   b. Abt 1135   d. 16 Oct 1185 (Age ~ 50 years)
  Marriage	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)
  Family ID	F2641	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	30 Nov 2015

  
  

• Notes

  Called "Emperor" (Emperador).

  
  

• 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, continued by Ian Fettes and Leslie Mahler. [S846] Spanish-language Wikipedia.