Afonso married Infanta Urraca of Castile, daughter of Alfonso VIIIof Castile and Leonora of England, in 1206.

He was the second son of King Afonso II of Portugal and his wife, Urraca of Castile ; he succeeded his brother, King Sancho II of Portugal, who was removed from the throne on 4 January 1248.

With his marriage to Urraca, queen regnant of Castile and León, in 1109, he began to use, with some justification, the grandiose title Emperor of Spain, formerly employed by his father-in-law, Alfonso VI.

He was finally compelled to give way in Castile and León to his stepson, Alfonso VII of Castile, son of Urraca and her first husband.

Then followed a period dominated by his relations with Castile and León through his wife, Urraca.

* 1126 – Following the death of his mother Urraca, Alfonso VII is proclaimed king of Castile and León.

In reply, the sister of Countess Theresa, Queen Urraca of Leon and Castile, attacks Portugal.

* March 8 – Queen Urraca of Castile ( b. 1082 )

* Queen Urraca of Castile ( d. 1129 )

* Alfonso I of Aragon marries Urraca of Castile.

* April 25 – Infanta Branca of Portugal, daughter of King Afonso III of Portugal and Urraca of Castile ( d. 1321 )

Contemporaries of Melisende who did rule, however, included Urraca of Castile ( 1080 – 1129 ), Empress Matilda ( 1102 – 1169 ), and Eleanor of Aquitaine ( 1122 – 1204 ).

But in 1109 Alfonso VI died, bequeathing all his territories to his legitimate daughter, Urraca of Castile, and Count Henry at once invaded León, hoping to add to his own dominions at the expense of his suzerain.

She was the mother of Urraca of León, who succeeded her father in both Castile and León.

* Urraca ( b. April 1079 – March 8, 1126 ) Queen of Castile and León in her own right.

From Sancho III of Navarre ( r. 1000-1035 ) until Urraca of León and Castile ( r. 1106-1125 ), members of the Jiménez family claimed the historic Visigothic title Imperator totius Hispaniae or Emperor of All Spain.

Statue of Urraca of León and Castile | Queen Urraca in the Parque del Buen Retiro in Madrid.

Sancho II (), nicknamed " the Pious " () and " the Caped " or " the Capuched " ( Portuguese: o Capelo ), King of Portugal ( 8 September 1209, Coimbra – 4 January 1248, Toledo ), was the eldest son of Afonso II of Portugal by his wife, Infanta Urraca of Castile.

* Raymond of Burgundy ( 1070 – 1107 ), married to Queen Urraca of Castile

* The Spanish Pragmatic Sanction of 1830, issued March 29, 1830 by King Ferdinand VII of Spain, ratified a Decree of 1789 by Charles IV of Spain, which had replaced the semi-Salic system established by Philip V with the mixed succession system that had characterized historically the Castilian monarchy ( upon which the Spanish monarchy draws its traditions ), as noted by the inheritance by queens regnant Urraca of Castile, Isabella I of Castile, and Joanna I of Castile.

After three years of war against Urraca and other rival claimants to the throne of León, Count Henry himself died in 1112, leaving his widow Theresa to govern Portugal north of the Mondego during the minority of her infant son Afonso: south of the Mondego the Moors were still supreme.

Alfonso's children by Aldonza Martínez de Silva ( daughter of Martin Gomez de Silva & Urraca Rodriguez ), later married to Diego Froilaz, Count of Cifuentes:

Two of his maternal uncles were the later Pope Calixtus II and Raymond of Burgundy, Count of Coimbra and husband of the future Queen Urraca of Castile and Leon.

The marriage of Urraca and Alfonso I almost immediately sparked rebellions in Galicia and scheming by her illegitimate half-sister Theresa and brother-in-law Henry, the Countess and Count of Portugal.

Though Urraca recovered Asturias, Leon, and Galicia, Alfonso occupied a significant portion of Castile ( where Urraca enjoyed large support ), while her half-sister Theresa and her husband Count Henry of Portugal occupied Zamora and Extremadura.

Urraca Henriques married Vermudo Pérez de Traba, Count of Trastámara.

** Henry, Count of Portugal makes common party with Alfonso I of Aragon against Urraca of Castile.

** Conference of Palencia, where Urraca of Castile divides her estates with Henry, Count of Portugal and his wife and her sister Theresa.

** Henry, Count of Portugal, believing Urraca of Castile has betrayed him, besieges her and her husband Alfonso I of Aragon in Sahagún, aided by Urraca's son Alfonso Raimúndez.

A passionate fighting-man ( he fought twenty-nine battles against Christian or Moor ), he was married ( when well over 30 years and a habitual bachelor ) in 1109 to the ambitious Queen Urraca of León, widow of Raymond of Burgundy, a passionate woman unsuited for a subordinate role.

His brother Raymond was married to Urraca, the heiress of León ; they became the parents of King Alfonso VII of León.

He was the son of Urraca of León and Raymond of Burgundy, the first of the House of Burgundy to rule in the Iberian peninsula.

In the first months of 1096, Henry and his cousin Raymond of Burgundy, husband of Queen Urraca, reached an agreement whereby each swore under oath that Raymond would give Henry the kingdom of Toledo and one-third of the royal treasury after King Alfonso's death and, if that was not possible, Henry would receive the kingdom of Galicia, while Henry, in turn, promised to support his cousin Raymond in securing all of the king's dominions and two-thirds of the treasury.

Urraca ’ s place in the line of succession made her the focus of dynastic politics, and she became a child bride at age eight to Raymond of Burgundy, a mercenary adventurer.

Author Bernard F. Reilly suggest that rather than a betrothal, the eight-year-old Urraca was fully wedded to Raymond of Burgundy as he almost immediately appears in protocol documents as Alfonso VI's son-in-law, a distinction that would not have been made without the marriage.

However, after Raymond died in 1107, Urraca ’ s father contracted with Alfonso I of Aragon, known as the Battler, for a dynastic marriage with Urraca, opening the opportunity for uniting León-Castile with Aragón.

He gave his daughters, Elvira, Urraca and Theresa, in marriage to Raymond of Toulouse, Raymond of Burgundy and Henry of Burgundy respectively.

** Alfonso VI of Castile gives her daughter Urraca of Castile in marriage to Raymond of Burgundy together with the fiefdom of Galicia.

** Alfonso Raimúndez, Raymond of Burgundy and Urraca of Castile's son, is proclaimed King of Castile and León as Alfonso VII.

Later in his reign, he formed a liaison with Urraca Fernández, widow of count Rodrigo Martínez and daughter of Fernando Garcés de Hita, an apparent grandson of García Sánchez III of Navarre, having a daughter Stephanie the Unfortunate ( 1148 – 1180 ), who was killed by her jealous husband, Fernán Ruiz de Castro.

Sancho married, circa 1245, a Castilian lady, Mécia Lopes de Haro, widow of Alvaro Peres de Castro, and daughter of Lope Díaz II de Haro and Urraca Alfonso de León, an illegitimate daughter of Alfonso IX of León, but they had no legitimate sons.

Folklorist Resurrección María de Azkue ties Mari Urraca to a legend about a princess of the Kingdom of Navarre, widow of a 12th-century nobleman who lived in the Tower of Muncharaz in the valley known as the Merindad de Durango.

After his death the county was left to his son García Fernández, while his widow Urraca returned to the Pamplona court before remarrying to William Sancho of Gascony.