Infante don ALFONSO de Castilla y León, son of doña URRACA Queen of Castile and León & her first husband Raymond de Bourgogne [Comté] ([Grajal], Galicia 1 Mar 1105-Fresneda 21 Aug 1157, bur Toledo, Cathedral Santa María). The Anales Toledanos record the birth 1 Mar 1106 of "El Rey D. Alfonso, fillo del Conde D. Raymondo è de Doña Urraca"[436]. The Chronicle of Alberic de Trois-Fontaines names "rex Aldefonsus Hispanie imperator" as son of "comitis Raymundi…ex Waracta filia imperatoris Fernandi"[437]. Crowned King of Galicia 17 Sep 1111 at Santiago de Compostela. He was proclaimed ALFONSO VII "el Emperador" King of Castile, León and Toledo in 1112[438]. "Hildefonsus Raymundi…rex" donated property to the abbey of Silos by charter dated 27 Nov 1116, confirmed by "Illa infanta regis germana, Guillelmus comes de Moretegni, Iohannes Reynnitz, Petrus Ansuriz comes…"[439]. He styled himself "imperator" for the first time 9 Dec 1117[440]. He ruled under the tutelage of Pedro Froilaz Conde de Traba and his mother until 1119, although he only assumed effective personal rule after his mother's death in 1126. "Aldefonsus Hyspanie imperator…cum uxore mea regina Berengaria et Santia mea germana" donated "abbatiam Sancti Facundi et Primitivi" to Cluny by charter dated 7 Sep 1132[441]. King of Zaragoza 1134. He was crowned Emperor 26 May 1135 at León. He negotiated peace with both Aragon and Navarre, with a view to concentrating his military efforts on the reconquest. "Adefonsus Hispanie imperator…cum uxore mea Berengaria" donated "monasterium Sancti Petri de Cardigna" to Cluny by charter dated 29 Jul 1142[442]. "Adefonsus Hispanie imperator…cum uxore mea Berengaria" confirmed the donation to Cluny of "monasterium Sancti Salvatoris de Bodinio" to Cluny as requested by "comitis Gomes" by charter dated Aug 1142[443]. "Adefonsus imperator Hispanie…cum uxore mea Berengaria" donated "ecclesiam sancti Vincentii de Salamantica" to Cluny by charter dated 29 Oct 1143, confirmed by "Sancius imperatoris major filius…Rodericus Gomez comes, Poncius de Cabreria comes, Guterrus Fernandez, Rodericus Fernandez, Didacus Munioz majordomus imperatoris, Garsias Royz majorinus imperatoris in Burgus"[444]. He captured Almería (1147), Tortosa (1148), and Jaén (1157) from the Moors, though they recaptured Almería before he died. "Aldefonsus…tocius Hyspanie imperator…cum uxore mea imperatrice domna Rica et…filiis meis Sanctio et Ferrando regibus" donated property to the abbey of Silos by charter dated 28 Oct 1155, confirmed by "Comes Rudericus Petriz, Garcia Garçiaz de Aza, Veremundus Petriz, Garcia Gumez, Gonsalvuz Ruderiz, Alvaros Ruderiz, Comes Gonsalvus Fernandi, Dicados Ferrandiz de Bonelas maiorinus in Burgis, Comes Almandricus tenens Bæciam, Comes Poncius maiordomus imperatoris, Comes Lupus, Comes Ranimirus, Comes Petrus Aldeffonsus, Gutierre Ferrandiz, Nunnus Petriz tenens Montor, Gundisalvus de Maranon alferiz imperatoris…"[445]. The Chronicon Burgense records the death in 1157 of "Alfonsus Imperator"[446]. The Chronicon Lusitanum records the death in Sep 1195 (1157) of "D. Alfonsus Imperator, filius Comitis D. Raymundi et Reginæ D. Orracæ"[447]. On his death, his lands were divided between his two sons.
m firstly (Saldaña Nov 1128) BERENGUELA de Barcelona, daughter of RAMÓN BERENGUER [III] "el Grande" Conde de Barcelona & his wife Dulce/Dolça [I] Ctss de Provence ([1116]-Palencia 15/31 Jan 1149, bur Santiago de Compostela, Cathedral Santiago el Mayor). The Chronica Adefonsi Imperatoris records the marriage of "Alfonso…king of León" and "the daughter of Ramón count of Barcelona…Berengaria" in 1128 at Saldaña[448]. The Gestis Comitum Barcinonensium record the marriage of "Raimundi-Berengarii comitis…filiam" and "Ildefonso Toletano Imperatori"[449]. The testament of "Raimundus Berengarii…Barchinonensis comes et marchio" dated [8 Jul] 1130 names "Raimundo Berengarii filio meo…et filie mee ipsa de Castella et illa de Fuxo"[450]. The De Rebus Hispaniæ of Rodericus Ximenes names "Berengariam atque Richam" as the wives of "Aldefonsi Hispaniarum Regis"[451]. The Anales Toledanos record the death in Feb 1149 of "la Emperadriz"[452].
m secondly ([Oct/Dec] 1152) as her first husband, RYKSA of Silesia, daughter of WLADYSLAW II "Wygnaniec/the Exile" Prince of Krakow and Silesia & his wife Agnes of Austria [Babenberg] ([1130/40]-16 Jun [1185]). The De Rebus Hispaniæ of Rodericus Ximenes names "Berengariam atque Richam" as the wives of "Aldefonsi Hispaniarum Regis"[453]. The primary source which confirms her parentage and her three marriages has not so far been identified. The Chronicle of Alberic de Trois-Fontaines names "Rikissam", daughter of "regi Russie nomine Musuch" & his wife "Rikissam [filiam ducis Vergescelai de Polonia]", as wife firstly of "imperatoris Castelle Alfunso" and subsequently of "comiti Aragonensi et post comiti Alberto de Everstein ultra Coliniam"[454], contradicting other sources in many aspects. She was known as RIQUILDA in Spain[455]. She married secondly (1161) Raymond Bérenger II Comte de Provence, and thirdly (after 1166) Albert [III] Graf von Everstein.
Mistress (1): ([1130/32]) doña GONTRODO Pérez, wife of don GUTIERRE Sebastiániz, daughter of conde don PEDRO Díaz de Valle & his wife doña María Ordóñez (-León 29 Jun 1186, Santa María de Vega near Oviedo). The Chronica Adefonsi Imperatoris records that King Alfonso VII "took a concubine…Guntroda, the daughter of Pedro Díaz and María Ordóñez…who belonged to the greatest family of the Asturians and the Tinians", dated to [1130/32] from the context[456]. She became a nun at the monastery of Santa María de Vega near Oviedo[457].
Mistress (2): ([1139/48]) doña URRACA Fernández de Castro, widow of conde don RODRIGO Martínez, daughter of don FERNANDO García [de Castro] Señor de Hita y Uceda & his second wife doña Estefanía Armengol de Urgel ([1120]-after 1165). She received property from King Alfonso VII in 1139, 1140 and 1148. Together with her brother don Pedro Fernández, she gave Santa Cruz de Valcárcel to abbot Miguel in 1165 for the foundation of an Augustine monastery[458].
King Alfonso VII & his first wife had seven children