Infante don FERNANDO de Castilla y León, son of don ALFONSO VII "el Emperador" King of Castile and León & his first wife Berenguela de Barcelona (1137-Benavente 22 Jan 1188, bur Santiago de Compostela, Cathedral Santiago el Mayor). The De Rebus Hispaniæ of Rodericus Ximenes names "Sancium et Fernandum, Elisabeth et Beatiam" as the children of "Aldefonsi Hispaniarum Regis" and his wife "Berengariam"[685]. The Chronicle of Alberic de Trois-Fontaines names "Fernando" as brother of "rex Sanctius"[686]. "Santius et…Fredinandus et Garsias filii ymperatories" confirmed the charter dated 12 Sep 1142 under which Alfonso VII King of Castile donated "uillam…Taranna" to "Martino Didaci"[687]. "Sancius et…Fernandus et Garsias filii imperatoris…" confirmed the charter dated 19 Aug 1146 under which Alfonso VII King of Castile donated "ecclesiam…sanctam Mariam de Uelerda" to "Martino Didaci"[688]. He succeeded his father in 1157 as don FERNANDO II King of León, Galicia and Extremadura. Regent for his nephew Alfonso VIII King of Castile. He founded the brotherhood of the knights of Cáceres ("hermandad de freiles de Cáceres") shortly after capturing the town in 1170. This soon developed into the Order of Santiago, which received the confirmation of the Papacy 1175, when the archbishop of Santiago entered the order as an honorary knight and donated a standard of the saint. The Annales Compostellani record the death in 1187 of "Fernandus Rex Legionis"[689]. The Anales Toledanos record the death in 1188 of "el Rey D. Ferrando, fillo del Emperador"[690].
m firstly ([May/Jun] 1165, repudiated [Feb 1171/1172]) Infanta dona URRACA de Portugal, daughter of dom AFONSO I Henriques King of Portugal & his wife Mathilde de Savoie ([1151]-Valladolid 16 Oct 1188). The De Rebus Hispaniæ of Rodericus Ximenes names "Sancium et Urracam…et aliam filiam…Tarasia" as the children of "Aldefonsum" & his wife, specifying that Urraca married "Fernandi Regis Legionensis"[691]. The Chronicon Lusitanum records that "D. Orracam" daughter of "Rex Donnus Alfonsus" and his wife "Donnam Matildam, Comitis Amadæi de Moriana filiam" married "Regi Legionensium Donno Fernando", adding in a later passage that they married in Aug 1209 (1171)[692]. The Crónica Latina records that "el rey Fernando" married "Urraca, hija de Alfonso rey de Portugal" but that they were related in the 3rd degree of consanguinity[693]. "Regina Sancia comitis Raymundi et regine Urrache regia proles" donated an inn near Mucientes to Sahagún monastery by charter dated 15 Mar 1158, subscribed by "Regina Urracha de Asturias, Stephania Infantissa filia imperatoris…"[694]. The dating clause of a charter dated 13 Feb 1171 records "regnante Rege Donno F. in Legione, Galesia, Asturiis et Extrematus…cum uxore sua regina donna Urracha"[695]. Lucas de Tuy records that "Rex Fernandus" repudiated "uxorem suam Urracam filiam Regis Adefonsi, eo quod erat consanguinea eius propinquo gradu"[696].
m secondly ([1172/6 May 1173]) doña TERESA Núñez de Lara, daughter of don NUÑO Pérez de Lara & his wife doña Teresa Fernández de Traba (-León 7 Feb 1180, bur León, monastery of San Isidro). Salazar y Castro states that the Coronica General records the marriage of "el Rey D. Ferrando" and "Doña Teresa fija del conde D. Nuño de Castiella"[697]. However, Lucas de Tuy records that "Rex Fernandus" married secondly "Tharasiam qua fuerat uxor Nunii comitis de Castella"[698], and Rodrigo de Jiménez that the king married "Tarasiam filiam comitis Fernandi, quæ fuerat uxor comitis Nunii de Castella"[699]. Salazar y Castro highlights the chronological impossibility that this is correct, although he cites no earlier source which confirms that the king´s wife was the daughter of Nuño Pérez de Lara. A charter dated 6 May 1173 records property of "Rege F. et Regina domina Tarasia…in Montenigro…Villar ripam de Goaa"[700]. Szabolcs de Vajay accepts the second marriage of Teresa Fernández with the king, but supposedly finds the solution to the chronological difficulties by saying that she was Fernando Pérez´s daughter "by Sancha González (and not, as is often alleged, by the Infanta Teresa of Portugal)"[701]. Unfortunately, this does not resolve the issues. The marriages of Fernando Pérez de Traba´s children by his legitimate wife are NOTE d between 1142 and 1150, which would place their births in the period [1120/30]. This is still too early for the possible birth date of the second wife of Fernando II King of León, given the births of the couple´s children in [1178/80]. The only satisfactory solution is that the second wife of King Fernando was the daughter, not the widow, of Nuño Pérez. This is also consistent with Queen Teresa being named in May 1173, which was four years before the death of Nuño Pérez. A monument in San Isidro, León records the burial of "Regina…coniux Tarasia Regis Fernandi"[702]. She died in childbirth.
m thirdly (May 1187) doña URRACA López de Haro, widow of don NUÑO Meléndez Señor de Ceón y Riaño, daughter of conde don LÓPE Díaz de Haro, Señor Soberano de Vizcaya & his second wife doña Aldonza Rodríguez (-Cistercian monastery of Vilena 1223, bur Vilena). She was the King's mistress from at least May 1182. Señora de Aguilar y Monteagudo 1187[703]. "Domna Urraca Lupi Regina filia comitis Lupi" donated property to the monastery of Las Huelgas de Burgos for the foundation of the monastery of Vileña, for the soul of "filiique mei Sanci Ferrandi", by charter dated Apr 1222