Alfonso VIII, King of Castile, Toledo, and Extramadura

1155 - 1214  (58 years)

• Name	Alfonso VIII   [1]
  Suffix	King of Castile, Toledo, and Extramadura
  Birth	11 Nov 1155	Soría, Castile, Spain   [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
  Gender	Male
  Death	22 Sep 1214  [4, 8]
  Alternate death	5 Oct 1214	Gutiérre Muños, Arévalo, Spain   [2, 3, 6]
  Alternate death	6 Oct 1214	Gutiérre Muños, Arévalo, Spain   [5, 9]
  Burial	Abbey of Santa María la Real de Las Huelgas, Burgos, Castile, Spain   [2, 6, 9]
  Person ID	I7448	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 LD, Ancestor of LDN, Ancestor of LMW
  Last Modified	31 Jul 2022

  
  

  Father	Sancho III, King of Nájera, Castile, and Toledo,   b. 1134   d. 31 Aug 1158, Toledo, Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain (Age 24 years)
  Mother	Blanche of Navarre, Queen of Castile,   b. 1137   d. 12 Aug 1156 (Age 19 years)
  Marriage	30 Jan 1151	Calahorra, La Rioja, Spain   [6, 10, 11]
  Family ID	F6053	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Eleanor of England,   b. 13 Oct 1162, Domfront, Normandy, France d. 21 Sep 1214 (Age 51 years)
  Marriage	Sep 1170	Burgos, Castile, Spain   [6, 10, 12, 13]
  Children	+ 1. Berenguela I of Castile, Queen Of Castile & Toledo,   b. Abt 1180   d. 8 Nov 1246, Las Huelgas, near Burgos, Castile, Spain (Age ~ 66 years) + 2. Urraca of Castile,   b. Between 1186 and 1187   d. 3 Nov 1220, Coimbra, Portugal (Age ~ 34 years) + 3. Blanche of Castile, Queen Consort of France,   b. Bef 4 Mar 1188, Palencia, Castile, Spain d. 26 Nov 1252, Paris, France (Age > 64 years)
  Family ID	F4641	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Jun 2019

  
  

• Notes

  Also Lord of Gascony. "Defeated by the Moorish Almohad invaders in 1195, but defeated a combined army of the kings of Leon and Navarre the same year. Won a great victory over the Moors at Navas de Tolosa, 1212." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, which gives the date of his marriage to Eleanor as September 1177, unlike other sources which date it to September 1170.]

  
  

• Sources

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