TWELFTH GENERATION


521. Queen Urraca was born in 1081. She died on 8 Mar 1125/26 in Saldana, Spain. Urraca , d. 1126, Spanish queen of Castile and León (1109–26), daughter and successor of Alfonso VI. Her first husband, Raymond of Burgundy, died in 1107, and in 1109 she was married to Alfonso I of Aragón. Her reign was disturbed by strife among the powerful nobles and especially by recurrent warfare with her husband, who had seized her lands. The marriage was annulled in 1114, and Urraca recovered most of her lands with the help of her son by her first husband. He succeeded her as Alfonso VII.

She became Countess of Castile in 1109.

She was married to Raymond (son of Count William I and Stephanie de Longwy) in 1087 in Toledo, Castile. Raymond died on 24 May 1107 in Grajal, Spain. Conde de Galicia y Coimbr Queen Urraca and Raymond had the following children:

child472 i. Sancha of Castile.
child+473 ii. King Alfonso Raimundez VII.

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