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.

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.

But Urraca was tenacious of her right as queen regnant and had not learnt chastity in the polygamous household of her father.

The marriage of Alfonso and Urraca was declared null by the Pope, as they were second cousins, in 1110, but he ignored the papal nuncio and clung to his liaison with Urraca until 1114.

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.

Sancho was assassinated in 1072, as the result of a pact between his brother Alfonso and his sister Urraca.

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

Theresa renewed the struggle against her half-sister and suzerain Urraca in 1116-1117, and again in 1120 ; in 1121 she was besieged in Lanhoso and captured.

In 1185 Ferdinand married for the third time to Urraca López de Haro ( daughter of Lope Díaz, lord of Biscay, Nájera and Haro ), who was his mistress since 1180.

His second wife was Urraca of Navarre, daughter of García Sánchez II of Pamplona

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.

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.

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He was the only son of King Ferdinand II of León and Urraca of Portugal.

In consequence of the Treaty of Le Goulet between Philip Augustus and John of England, Blanche's sister Urraca was betrothed to Philip's son, Louis.

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

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.

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.

In 1121, she was besieged and captured at Lanhoso, on her northern border with Galicia, fighting her sister Urraca.

Urraca ( April 1079 – 8 March 1126 ) was Queen regnant of León, Castile, and Galicia, and claimed the imperial title as suo jure Empress of All the Spains from 1109 until her death in childbirth, as well as Empress of All Galicia.

Urraca became heiress presumptive again after Sancho ’ s death the following year, when he was killed after the Battle of Uclés.

Urraca of Castile, Count Raymond of Burgundy's widow, is his only surviving legitimate child and marries King Alfonso I of Aragon.

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.

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

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.

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

* Unsuccessful attempt of Queen Urraca to seize Burgos defended by her ex-husband King Alfonso.

* Alfonso I of Aragon marries Urraca of Castile.

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.

Urraca tried in vain to have Alfonso IX, first son of Ferdinand II, declared illegitimate, to favour her son Sancho.

Alfonso and Urraca had one daughter:

Alfonso first used the title Emperor of All Spain, alongside his mother Urraca, once his mother vested him with the direct rule of Toledo in 1116.

* 15 ) Urraca Alfonso de León ( ca.

* 21 ) Urraca Alfonso of León ( ca.

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.

Upon the death of King Alfonso, Henry and Theresa continued governing these lands south of the Minho, and later, in December 1111 under the reign of Queen Urraca, were also governing Zamora.

At first, Theresa and Henry were vassals of her father, but Alfonso VI died in 1109, leaving everything to his legitimate daughter, Queen Urraca of Castile.

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.

Marriage negotiations were still underway when Alfonso VI died and Urraca became queen.

Policies and events pursued by Alfonso VI – namely legitimizing her brother and thereby providing an opportunity for her illegitimate half-sister to claim a portion of the patrimony, as well as the forced marriage with Alfonso I of Aragon – contributed in large part to the challenges Urraca faced upon her succession.

Sancho II became King of Castile, Alfonso VI, King of León and García, King of Galicia, while his daughters were given towns, Urraca, Zamora, and Elvira, Toro.

Upon his death, Alfonso VI was succeeded by his daughter the widowed Urraca, who then married Alfonso I of Aragon, but they almost immediately fell out, and Alfonso tried unsuccessfully to conquer Urraca's lands, before he repudiated her in 1114.

* Geneviève Page as Doña Urraca ( sister of Alfonso VI )

* Urraca Sánchez ( died 1041 ), wife of Sancho VI William of Gascony

Álvar Fáñez ( or Háñez ) ( died 1114 ) was a Castilian nobleman and military leader under Alfonso VI of León and Castile, becoming nearly independent ruler of Toledo under Queen Urraca.

However, the marriage of Ferdinand II and Urraca was annulled in 1175 by the Pope, the two being second cousins, great-grandchildren of Alfonso VI of León and Castile.

That this was political in nature is shown by Ferdinand's remarriage to Teresa Fernández de Traba, the half-aunt of Urraca and thus a generation closer to Alfonso VI.

From a Galician perspective the Historia recounts the reigns of the contemporary sovereigns of Castile: Alfonso VI ( until 1109 ), Urraca ( 1109 – 1126 ) and Alfonso VII ( from 1126 ).

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