Alfonso VIII of Castile - Children

Children

With Eleanor of England he had 11 children:

Name Birth Death Notes
Berengaria Burgos,
1 January/
June 1180		 Las Huelgas near Burgos,
8 November 1246		 Married firstly in Seligenstadt on 23 April 1188 with Duke Conrad II of Swabia, but the union (only by contract and never solemnized) was later annulled. Married in Valladolid between 1/16 December 1197 with King Alfonso IX of León as her second wife. After their marriage was dissolved on grounds of consanguinity in 1204, she returned to her homeland and became regent of her minor brother King Henry I. Queen of Castile in her own right after the death of Henry I in 1214, immediately abdicated in favor of her son.
Sancho Burgos,
5 April 1181		 26 July 1181 Heir of the throne since his birth, died aged three months.
Sancha 20/28 March 1182 3 February 1184/
16 October 1185		 Died in infancy.
Henry 1184 1184? Heir of the throne since his birth, died either shortly after being born or in infancy. His existence is disputed among sources.
Urraca 1186/
28 May 1187		 Coimbra,
3 November 1220		 Married in 1206 to Alfonso, who succeeded his father in 1212 as King Alfonso II of Portugal.
Blanche Palencia,
4 March 1188		 Paris,
27 November 1252		 Married in the Abbaye de Port-Mort near Pont-Audemer, Normandy on 23 May 1200 with Prince Louis, who succeeded his father in 1223 as King Louis VIII of France. Regent of the Kingdom of France during her son's minority (1226–1234) and during his absence on the Seventh Crusade.
Ferdinand Cuenca,
29 September 1189		 Madrid,
14 October 1211		 Heir of the throne since his birth. On whose behalf Diego of Acebo and the future Saint Dominic travelled to Denmark in 1203 to secure a bride. He died soon after returning from campaigning against the Moors.
Mafalda Plasencia,
1191		 Salamanca,
1211		 Betrothed in 1204 to Infante Ferdinand of Leon, eldest son of King Alfonso IX and stepson of her oldest sister.
Constance 1195 Las Huelgas,
1243		 A nun at the Cistercian monastery of Santa María la Real at Las Huelgas in 1217, she later became Abbess of her community.
Eleanor 1202 Las Huelgas,
1244		 Married in Ágreda on 6 February 1221 with King James I of Aragon. After her marriage was dissolved on grounds of consanguinity in April 1229, she became a nun at the Cistercian monastery of Santa María la Real at Las Huelgas.
Henry Valladolid,
14 April 1204		 Palencia,
6 June 1217		 Only surviving son, he succeeded his father in 1214 aged ten under the regency firstly of his mother and later his oldest sister Berengaria. Married in Burgos before 29 August 1215 with Infanta Mafalda of Portugal, the union was unconsummated and dissolved in 1216 on grounds of consanguinity. Soon after his divorce was betrothed with his stepniece, Infanta Sancha of León, eldest daughter of King Alfonso IX, but died when a tile came off a roof before the marriage could be solemnized.

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