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Alfonso VIII "el Noble," King of Castile

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Pedigree

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Alfonso VIII "el Noble," King of Castile, son of Sancho III, King of Castile and Blanche of Navarre, was born at Soria, Spain, 11 November 1155.^1,2,3 He died at Arévalo, Spain, 5 October 1214.^1,2,3 Both he and his wife were buried at Santa María la Real monastery, Burgos, Spain.¹

Alfonso married Eleanor of England, daughter of Henry II, King of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine, at Burgos, Spain, in September 1170.^1,3,2

Family

Eleanor of England b. 13 Oct 1162, d. 25 Oct 1214

Children

Sancho of Castile⁴ b. aft. 1170
Fernando of Castile⁴ b. aft. 1170
Sancho of Castile⁴ b. aft. 1170
Enrique of Castile⁴ b. aft. 1170
Fernando of Castile⁴ b. aft. 1170
Fernando of Castile⁴ b. aft. 1170
Enrique I, King of Castile⁴ b. aft. 1170
Sancha of Castile,⁴ b. aft. 1170
Mafalda of Castile,⁴ b. aft. 1170
Leonor of Castile,⁴ b. aft. 1170
Constanza of Castile, Abbess of Las Huelgas⁴ b. aft. 1170
Berenguela I of Castile "la Grande," Queen of Castile and Toledo+¹ b. abt. 1179, d. 8 Nov 1246
Urraca of Castile+¹ b. bef. 28 May 1187, d. 3 Nov 1220
Blanche of Castile+¹ b. bef. 4 Mar 1188, d. 27 Nov 1252

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22 Apr 2021

Citations

[S1947] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Five volumes (Salt Lake City, Utah: s.p., 2013), 2:114-5 (Castile 5), further cited as Richardson, Royal Ancestry.
[S2062] Szabolcs de Vajay, "From Alfonso VII to Alfonso X: The First Two Centuries of the Burgundian Dynasty in Castile and Leon - A Prosopographical Catalogue in Social Genealogy, 1100-1300," Studies in Genealogy and Family History in Tribute to Charles Evans on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday, Linday L. Brook, editor (Salt Lake City, Utah: Association for the Promotion of Scholarship in Genealogy, 1989), 376, further cited as de Vajay, "From Alfonso VII to Alfonso X."
[S248] George Andrews Moriarty, The Plantagenet Ancestry of King Edward III and Queen Philippa (Salt Lake City, Utah: Mormon Pioneer Genealogy Society, 1985), 108, further cited as Moriarty, Plantagenet Ancestry.
[S1947] Richardson, Royal Ancestry, 2:114 (Castile 5).