Alfonso VII "The Emperor" King of Leon & Castile 
Alfonso VII "The Emperor" King of Leon & was born in Toledo, Castile, Spain. Alfonso VII "The Emperor" King of Leon &'s father was Raymond of Burgundy , Count of Castile and his mother was Urraca Princess of Leon & Castile. His paternal grandparents were William I "The Great" Count of Macon & Burgundy and Stephanie (Etiennette) de Longwy; his maternal grandparents were Alfonso VI "The Brave" King of Leon & Castile and Constance of Burgundy. He was an only child. He died on August 21st, 1157 in La Fresneda, Teruel, Castile, Spain.General Notes
ALPHONSO VII, "The Emperor" (1126-1157), is a dignified and somewhat enigmatical figure. 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. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1961 ed., Vol. 1, pg. 687, ALPHONSO VII]
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 0966 in Lombardy, Italy d.21 Sep 1026 in Dijon, Cote d'Or, Bourgogne, France
- b.~ 0990 in Bourgogne, France d.04 Sep 1057 in France
- b.~ 0953 in Rheims, Marne, France d.5 MAR 1004/05
- b.1024 in Macon, Saone-et-Loire, Bourgogne, France d.11 Nov 1087
- b.~ 0959 in Rouen, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France d.28 Aug 1026 in Fecamp, Seine-Inferieure, France
- b.1003 in Normandy, France d.27 Jul 1037 in France
- b.~ 0982 in Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France d.16 Jun 1017 in Normandy, France
- b.~ 1060 in Dijon, Cote d'Or, Bourgogne, France d.26 Mar 1107 in Grajal Do Campos, Leon, Spain
- b.~ 0985 in Lorraine, France
- b.~ 1012 in Longwy, Lorraine, France d.1048
- b.~ 0985 in Lorraine, France d.1045
- b.~ 1035 in Longwy, Duchy of Bar, Lorraine, France d.> 1088
- b.~ 1015 in Carcassonne, Aude, Languedoc, France
- b.1 MAR 1104/05 in Toledo, Castile, Spain d.21 Aug 1157 in La Fresneda, Teruel, Castile, Spain
- b.1016 in Burgos, Spain d.27 Dec 1065 in Leon, Spain
- b.<Jun 1040 in Burgos, Castile, Spain d.29 Jun 1109 in Toledo, Castile, Spain
- b.1013 in Leon, Spain d.07 Nov 1067
- b.BET 1077 AND 1081 in Burgos, Castile, Spain d.8 MAR 1125/26 in Saldana, Palencia, Spain
- b.27 Mar 0972 in Orleans, France d.20 Jul 1031 in Meulan, Yvelines, Ile-de-France, France
- b.~ 1011 in Bourgogne, France d.21 MAR 1075/76 in Fleury-Sur-Ouche, France
- b.~ 0986 in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrenees, France d.25 Jul 1032 in Meulan, Yvelines, Ile-de-France, France
- b.~ 1046 in Dijon, Cote d'Or, Bourgogne, France d.ABT JAN 1092/93
- b.~ 0970 in Semur-en-Auxois, France d.1032
- b.1028 in Semur-en-Auxois, France d.22 Apr 1109
- b.~ 0980 in Nevers, Nievre, Bourgogne, France
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Alfonso VII "The Emperor" King of Leon & and Berenguela of were married in a religious ceremony before July 1124 in La Fresneda, Terue, Spain (2nd husband). They had two sons and two daughters, named Sancho III "The Desired" King of, Ferdinand II Alfonsez King of, Sancha Infanta of and Constance of.
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Children
Sancho III "The Desired" King of Castile
Sancho III "The Desired" King of was born in 1135 in Toledo, Castile, Spain. He died at the age of 23 on August 31st, 1158 in Toledo, Castile, Spain.
Ferdinand II Alfonsez King of Leon
Ferdinand II Alfonsez King of was born in 1137 in Toledo, Castile, Spain. He died at the age of 51 on August 22nd, 1188 in Benavente, Zamora, Castile, Spain.
Constance of Castile
Constance of was born in 1144 in Castile, Spain. She died at the age of 16 on October 4th, 1160 in (in child birth).
Alfonso VII "The Emperor" King of Leon & and Richilde of were married in a religious ceremony in July 1152 in Wroclaw, Poland. They had a daughter named Sancha of.
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Children
Sancha of Castile
Sancha of was born on September 21st, 1154 in Toledo, Castile, Spain. She died at the age of 54 on November 9th, 1208 in Monasterio de Jaen, Jaen, Spain.
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