26TH GENERATION

63508612. Alfonso IX King of Leon was born in 1166 in Leon. He died in 1230 in Leon. Reigned from 1188. He was married to Berenguela of Castile in 1190 in Spain. 1st cousins 1/r.

63508613. Berenguela of Castile⁽⁶⁸⁸⁾ was born in 1175 in Castile, Spain. She died in 1246. She was also known as Berengarius -Berangaria. From the houses of Castile and Plantagenet, she was 2nd wife of Alfonso IX (VIII) of Leon, whom she married in 1197. Marriage was arranged to stop the wars between England and Spain. The marriage was annulled by Pope Innocent III on the grounds of her kinship with her husband (1st cousins 1/r). She reigned as Queen of Castile and Leon for a few months after the death of her father, Alfonso VIII in 1214, and after her brother, Henry I who died in 1217. Berengaria (Berenguela) then proclaimed her son, Ferdinand III King of Castile in 1217. Children were:

i. Berengaria of Leon was born about 1191 in Leon. She died after 1220.
31754306 ii. Fernando III King of Castile.