Seventh Generation  

23. King Alfonso VIII d'IVREA of Castile & Leon [81990] (King Sancho III d'IVREA of Castile¹⁶, Queen Consort Berenguela d'BARCELONA of Castile and Leon¹², Comtesse Douce I de GAVAUDAN de Provence⁶, Gilbert I de Millau et Gévaudan (Vicomte)³, Berenger de Millau et Gavaudan (Comte)², Richard II de Millau et Gavaudan (Viscomte)¹) was born on 11 Nov 1155 in Soria Spain and died on 6 Oct 1214 in Gutierre-Muñoz Avila Castile and León Spain at age 58.

General Notes: Wikipedia says of Alfonso,
Alfonso VIII (11 November 1155[2] \endash 5 October 1214), called the Noble (El Noble) or the one of Las Navas (el de las Navas), was the King of Castile from 1158 to his death and King of Toledo.[3][4] He is most remembered for his part in the Reconquista and the downfall of the Almohad Caliphate. After having suffered a great defeat with his own army at Alarcos against the Almohads in 1195,[5] he led the coalition of Christian princes and foreign crusaders who broke the power of the Almohads in the Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa in 1212, an event which marked the arrival of a tide of Christian supremacy on the Iberian peninsula.[6]

His reign saw the domination of Castile over León and, by his alliance with Aragon, he drew those two spheres of Christian Iberia into close connection.

Alfonso married Queen Consort Eleanor PLANTAGENET of Castile [81991]. Eleanor was born on 13 Oct 1161 in Domfront en Poiraie Orne Basse-Normandy France, died on 25 Oct 1214 in Burgos Castile & Leon Spain at age 53, and was buried in Abbey of Santa Maria la Real de Huelgas Burgos Castile Spain.

Noted events in her life were:

• Birth: at Château de Domfront, 25 Oct 1214, Domfront en Poiraie Orne Basse-Normandy France.

Children from this marriage were:

+ 26    i. Queen Berenguela Alfonsez d'IVREA of Castille [82059] was born in Jun 1180 in Burgos Castile & Leon Spain and died on 8 Nov 1246 in Burgos Castile & Leon Spain at age 66.

   27    ii. Infante Sancho d'IVREA de Castille [123208] was born on 5 Apr 1181 in Burgos Castile & Leon Spain and died on 14 Jul 1181 in Burgos Castile & Leon Spain.

   28    iii. Queen Consort Urraca d'IVREA of Portugal [123209] was born on 25 May 1187 in Toledo Spain and died on 2 Nov 1220 in Coimbra Portugal at age 33.

+ 29    iv. Princess Blanca d'IVREA of Castile [81987] was born on 4 Mar 1188 in Palencia Castile Spain, died on 27 Nov 1252 in Paris Isle-de-France France at age 64, and was buried in Abbaye de Maubuisson Paris Isle-de-France France.

   30    v. Infanta Mafalda d'IVREA of Spain [123210] was born in 1191 and died in 1204 in Salamanca Salamanca Province Spain at age 13.

   31    vi. Queen Consort Eleanor d'IVREA of Aragon [123211] was born about 1191 in Castille and León Spain and died in 1244 in Burgos Castile & Leon Spain aged about 53.

   32    vii. Constanza d'IVREA [123212] was born in 1195 in Toledo Castile la Mancha Spain and died in 1243 at age 48.

   33    viii. King Enrique I d'IVREA of Castile [123213] was born on 14 Apr 1204 in Valladolid Castile and León Spain and died on 6 Jun 1217 in Palencia Castile and León Spain at age 13.

General Notes: Wikipedia says of Enrique [Henry],
Henry I of Castile (14 April 1204[1] \endash 6 June 1217) was king of Castile. He was the son of Alfonso VIII of Castile and Eleanor of England, Queen of Castile (daughter of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine).[2] He was the brother of Berenguela and Mafalda of Castile.[3]

In 1211, Henry became heir to the throne when his older brother Ferdinand suddenly died.

When his father died in 1214, Henry was just 10 years old, so the regency was assumed by Henry's older sister Berengaria of Castile,[4] wife of Alfonso IX of Leon.

In 1215, Henry married Mafalda of Portugal, daughter of Sancho I of Portugal. As he was very young, the marriage was not consummated, and it was dissolved in 1216 by Pope Innocent III on grounds of consanguinity. In the same year, Henry became betrothed to his second cousin Sancha, heiress of León.[5]

Henry died in Palencia in 1217 at the age of 13, killed by a tile coming off a roof. His sister Berengaria succeeded him, before renouncing the throne in favour of her son Ferdinand III.[6] His body was buried at Las Huelgas monastery in Burgos.