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Family of Henry + of BURGUNDY and Teresa + of CASTILE

Husband: Henry + of BURGUNDY (1066-1112)
Wife: Teresa + of CASTILE (1070-1130)
Children: Alfonso I + HENRIQUEZ (1110-1185)
Marriage 1093

Husband: Henry + of BURGUNDY

Name: Henry + of BURGUNDY
Sex: Male
Father: Henry + (1035-1066)
Mother: Sibil + of BURGUNDY (1035-1074)
Birth 1066 Dijon, Cote-D'or, Burgundy,France
Occupation Count of Portugal
Title frm 1093 to 1112 (age 26-46) Count of Portugal
Death 1 Nov 1112 (age 45-46) Astorga, Galicia, Spain
Burial Braga Cathedral, Braga, Portugal

Wife: Teresa + of CASTILE

Name: Teresa + of CASTILE
Sex: Female
Father: Alfonso VI + (1040-1109)
Mother: Jimena + MUNOZ (1048-1128)
Birth 1070 Toledo, Castile, Spain
Death 1 Nov 1130 (age 59-60)

Child 1: Alfonso I + HENRIQUEZ

Name: Alfonso I + HENRIQUEZ
Sex: Male
Spouse: Mafalda + (1125-1157)
Birth 25 Jul 1110 Villa de Giumardaes, Braga, Portugal
Occupation King of Portugal and the Algarves
Title frm 1139 to 1185 (age 28-75) King of Portugal and the Algarves
Death 1 Dec 1185 (age 75) Mosteiro Decelas, Coimbra, Portugal

Note on Husband: Henry + of BURGUNDY

Henry of Burgundy, Count of Portugal (Portuguese: Conde D. Henrique) (1066–1112) was Count of Portugal from 1093 to his death. He was brother of Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy and Eudes I, Duke of Burgundy, all sons of Henry, the heir of Robert I, Duke of Burgundy. His name is Henri in modern French, Henricus in Latin, Enrique in modern Spanish and Henrique in modern Portuguese. He was a distant cousin of Raymond of Burgundy and Pope Callistus II.

 

As a younger son, Henry had little chance of acquiring fortune and titles by inheritance, thus he joined the Reconquista against the Moors in the Iberian Peninsula. He joined the campaign of King Alfonso VI of Castile and León, who was married to Henry's aunt Constance of Burgundy, and played an important role in the conquest of modern Galicia, and the north of Portugal. In reward, Henry was married to King Alfonso's illegitimate daughter, Theresa, Countess of Portugal in 1093, receiving the County of Portugal, then a fiefdom of the Kingdom of León, as a dowry.

 

From Teresa, Henry had three sons and three daughters. The only son to survive childhood was Afonso Henriques, who became the second Count of Portugal in 1112. However, the young man Afonso was energetic and expanded his dominions at the expense of Muslims. In 1139, he declared himself King of Portugal after reneging the subjugation to León, in open confrontation with his mother. Two daughters also survived childhood, Urraca and Sancha. Urraca Henriques married Vermudo Pérez de Traba, Count of Trastámara. Sancha Henriques married a nobleman, Sancho Nunes de Celanova; her son was Velasco Sánchez.