♀Urraca of Portugal

Urraca of Portugal was a queen of Leon, the first wife of Fernando II and the mother of Alfonso IX of Leon. She was the twenty-fifth great-grandmother of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through her son Alfonso of Leon (1171–1230).

Fernando II, King of Leon^W, is said to have married Urraca of Portugal, a daughter of Affonso I Enriques, King of Portugal^W, as his first wife. Their son Alfonso, born at Zamora on 15 August 1171, was his father’s son and heir and is remembered as Alfonso IX of Leon.

Notes

Sources

Urraca’s marriage to Fernando II of Leon, her father and their son Alfonso are from Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry (2nd ed., 2011), vol. I, CASTILE 4, p. 493. This is a printed genealogy of the medieval royal families, a compiled work rather than a first-hand record, so these facts are given with a qualifier. The same page names Alfonso as “son and heir of Fernando II, King of Leon, by his 1st wife, Urraca, daughter of Affonso I Enriques, King of Portugal”, and gives Alfonso’s birth at Zamora on 15 August 1171.

What is not known

That entry gives no birth or death date for Urraca or Fernando and names neither one’s parents, so none is stated here. Richardson spells her father’s name Affonso I Enriques; he is the Afonso I who became the first king of Portugal.