VII Alphonso 
VII was born in Castile, Spain. VII's father was Raymond Of Burgundy and his mother was Princess Of Castile Urraca. His paternal grandparents were William II "The Great and Stephanie Of Longwy; his maternal grandparents were VI Alphonso and Constance Of Burgundy. He was an only child. He died on August 21st, 1157 in Fresneda, Castile, Spain. He was buried in Cathedral Of Santa Maria, Toledo, Castile, Spain.General Notes
Name Suffix:<NSFX> King Of Castile And León
A vague tradition had always assigned the title of emperor to the soverign who held Leon as the most direct representative of the Visigothic kings, who were themselves the representatives of the Roman empire. But though given in charters, and claimed by Alphonso VI and the Battler (Alphonso I, King of Aragon), the title had been little more than a flourish of rhetoric. Alphonso VII was crowned emperor in 1135, after the death of the Battler. The weakness of Aragon enabled him to make his superiority effective. He appears to have striven for the formation of a national unity, which Spain had never possessed since the fall of the Visigoth kingdom. The elements he had to deal with could not be welded together. Alphonso was at once a patron of the Church and a protector if not a favourer of the Mohammedans, who formed a part of his subjects. His reign ended in an unsuccessful campaign against the rising power of the Almohades. Though he was not actually defeated, his death in the Pass of Muradel in the Sierra Morena, while on his way back to Toledo, occurred in circumstances which showed that no man could be what he claimed to be---"king of the men of the two religions." His personal character does not stand out with the emphasis of those of Alphonso VI or the Battler. Yet he was a great king, the type and, to some extent, the victim of the confusions of his age---Christian in creed and ambition, but more than half oriental in his household
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.0968 d.30 Apr 971
- b.Bet 958 and 959 in Lombard, Italy d.23 Oct 1026
- b.~ 0950 d.Bet 986 and 991
- b.~ 0990 d.03 Sep 1057
- b.~ 0926 d.10 May 967
- b.0958 in Reims, Marne, France d.5 Mar 1003-1004
- b.~ 0930 in Hainaut, Holland
- b.~ 1024 in Burgundy, France
- b.28 Aug 933 in Fécamp, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France d.20 Nov 966 in Fécamp, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France
- b.~ 0962 in Normandy, France d.28 Aug 1027 in Fécamp, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France
- b.~ 0936
- b.~ 1003 in Normandy, France
- b.~ 0930 in France d.27 Jun 992 in Conquereuil, Loire-Atlantique, Bretagne, France
- b.0982 in Bretagne, France d.16 Jun 1017 in Bretagne, France
- b.~ 0952 d.~ 0960
- b.~ 1070 in Burgundy, France d.Bet 1107 and 1108 in Grajal, , Spain
- b.~ 0915
- b.~ 0940 d.1033 in Bouzonville
- b.~ 1000 d.1048 in Slain At Thuim
- b.~ 0925
- b.~ 0950
- b.~ 0925 d.0999
- b.~ 1035
- d.1019
- b.~ 0977 d.1036
- d.> 1011
- d.> 1038
- b.1 Mar 1103-1104 in Castile, Spain d.21 Aug 1157 in Fresneda, Castile, Spain
- b.~ 0964 d.<Dec 0999
- b.~ 0991 in Navarre, Spain d.18 Oct 1035 in Murdered
- b.~ 0970 d.> 1035
- b.Bet 1016 and 1018 in Castile, Spain d.27 Dec 1065 in Leon, Spain
- b.0965 d.5 Feb 1015-1016
- b.0995 d.1067 in St. Salvador DE Oña
- b.~ 0974 d.20 May 1025
- b.<Jun 1040 in Toledo, Castile, Spain d.30 Jun 1109
- b.0953 d.Sep 0999 in Villabueno Del Bierzo
- b.~ 0995 d.1028 in Viseu, Portugal
- b.~ 0965 d.Mar 1026-1027
- b.1013 d.1067 in Fromista, Spain
- b.~ 0964 d.> 1023
- b.~ 0996 d.02 Dec 1022
- b.~ 0964 d.~ 1022
- b.1081 in Castile, Spain d.Mar 1124-1125 in Saldana, Castile, Spain
- b.0941 d.24 Oct 966 in Paris, Seine, France
- b.0968 d.1031
- b.~ 0950 d.1004
- b.~ 1011 in Burgundy, France d.21 Mar 1074-1075 in Fleury-Sur-Ouche, , France
- b.~ 0955 d.0994 in Avignon, , Fra
- d.25 Jul 1032 in Melun, Seine-Et-Marne, France
- b.~ 0942 in Anjou, France d.1026
- b.~ 1046 in Burgundy, France d.Bet 1092 and 1093
- b.~ 0920
- b.0983 d.> 1048 in Said To Have Been Murdered By His Son-In-Law, Robert, Duke Of Burgundy
- b.1016 d.22 Apr 1055
- b.~ 0980
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They had a daughter named Queen Of Aragon.
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