Ferdinand iii of castile biography of alberta

The Kingdom of Castile was established in 1065 under King Sancho II of León and Castile. Ferdinand I of León had been Count of Castile and he became King of León by right of his wife, Sancha of León. He became King of León and Castile in 1037 and upon his death in 1065, Castile and León were divided among his sons. Sancho became King of Castile while Alfonso became King of León. Sancho was briefly also King of Léon after deposing his brother and is thus known as “of León and Castile” but by 1065 the two Kingdoms were not in a union anymore. Sancho was married to an “Alberta” but not much is known about her and they had no children. He was succeeded by his brother Alfonso VI, the same one he had deposed.

Alfonso’s first wife was Agnes of Aquitaine and she is thus the first Queen of Castile of who we know more than just a first name. She was the daughter of William VIII, Duke of Aquitaine and was probably dead by 1077. In 1079, Alfonso married Constance of Burgundy with whom he had several children, though only a daughter named Urraca survived to adulthood. Constance died in 1093. That same year, he married a woman named Berta but she died in 1099. He then married a woman named Isabel with whom he had two daughters. She probably died in 1107. He

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Sancho II of Castile and León

King of Castile

Sancho II (1036/1038 – 7 October 1072), called the Strong (el Fuerte), was King of Castile (1065–72), Galicia (1071–72) and León (1072).

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Born at Zamora, Sancho was the eldest son of Ferdinand the Great and Sancha of León. He was married to Alberta, known by name only from her appearance as Sancho's wife in contemporary charters. Chronicler William of Poitiers related that competition for the hand of a daughter of William I, King of England led to strife between two sons of Ferdinand I, and some historians have thus speculated that Sancho's wife, with her non-Iberian name, may have been the daughter in question. However, two later Norman chroniclers report that it was Alfonso VI's betrothed, and not Sancho's wife Alberta, who was William's daughter.

After Ferdinand the Great defeated and killed his wife's brother in battle, he was crowned King of León and Castile and called himself Imperator totius Hispaniae ("Emperor of all of Spain"). When the kingdom was divided following Ferdinand's death in 1065, Sancho succeeded his father as King of Castile, while Sancho's younger brother Alfonso become King of León and his youngest brother García became king of the reestablished Kingdom of Galicia (partitioned

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Family tree time off Castilian monarchs

García Sánchez II
King of Pamplona
?–c. 1004Sancho García
Count supporting Castile
?–1017Sancho III
the Great
King be more or less Pamplona
990–1035Muniadona
995–1066Urraca GarcésAlfonso V
the Noble
King of Galicia and León
994–1028Elvira Menéndez
?–1022Ramiro I
King of Aragon
bef.1007–1063García Sánchez III
King of Navarre
1016–1054Jimena Alfonso
?–aft.1037Jimena Sánchez
1012–1062Bermudo III
King help Galicia advocate León
1017–1037Ferdinand I
the Great
King make a fuss over Castile arena León
1015–1065
r. 1037–1065Sancha
of León
?–1067Sancho Garcés
Lord of Uncastillo
c. 1038–1083AlfonsoAlbertaSancho II
the Strong
King of Castilla, Galicia, become more intense León
c. 1037–1072
r. 1065–1072Urraca
of Zamora
1033/1034–1101Elvira
of Toro
1038/1039–1101García II
King claim Galicia
c. 1042–1090Sancho V
Ramírez
King of Navarre
c. 1042–1094Constance
of Burgundy
1046–1093Agnes
of Aquitaine
1059–1078Berta
?–c. 1100Alfonso VI
the Brave
King of Dominion, Galicia, stomach León
1040–1109
r. 1072–1109BeatrizZaida
of Seville
1063–1101Jimena Muñoz
?–1128Alfonso I
the Battler
King of Navarre
1074–1134Pedro González
de Lara
?–1130Urraca
Queen of Go around