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• Name	MUÑOZ, Teresa of León
  Prefix	Queen
  Birth	1080	Póvoa de Lanhoso, Braga, Portugal
  Gender	Female
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  Burial	Nov 1130	Braga, Braga, Portugal
  Death	11 Nov 1130	Monasterio de Montederramo, Galicia, Spain
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  Person ID	I28810	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2021

  
  

  Father	CASTILE, King Alfonsez VI ,   b. Jun 1040, Burgos, Castile-León, Spain Burgos, Castile-León, Spaind. 1 Jul 1109, Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain (Age 69 years)
  Mother	GUZMAN, Ximena Nunez de ,   b. 1048, León, León, Spain León, León, Spaind. 1128, León, León, Spain (Age 80 years)
  Family ID	F16152	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Father	CASTILE, King Alfonsez VI ,   b. Jun 1040, Burgos, Castile-León, Spain Burgos, Castile-León, Spaind. 1 Jul 1109, Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain (Age 69 years)
  Mother	DENIA, Princess Zaida ,   b. 7 Jan 1071, Denia, Alicante, Pais Valenciano, Spain Denia, Alicante, Pais Valenciano, Spaind. 12 Sep 1107, Denia, Alicante, Spain (Age 36 years)
  Marriage	1096	Denia, Alicante, Spain
  Notes	MARRIAGE: Also shown as Married 1091
  Family ID	F16153	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	BURGUNDY, Count Henry de ,   b. 6 Jun 1066, Dijon, Côte-d'Or, Bourgogne, France Dijon, Côte-d'Or, Bourgogne, Franced. 1 Nov 1112, Astorga, Galicia, Spain (Age 46 years)
  Marriage	1093	Castile, Spain   [2]
  Notes	MARRIAGE: Also shown as Married 1110
  Children	1 son and 3 daughters
  + 1. BURGUNDY, Alix Ala de ,   b. 1102, Elington Elingtond. 28 Feb 1142, Essex, England (Age 40 years) + 2. PORTUGAL, King Alfonsez Henriquez I ,   b. 25 Jul 1110, Guimarães, Braga, Portugal Guimarães, Braga, Portugald. 6 Dec 1185, Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal (Age 75 years)   3. PORTUGAL, Princess Teresa Henriquez ,   b. 1111, Portugal Portugald. 1212, Guimarães, Braga, Portugal (Age 101 years)   4. PORTUGAL, Urraca Henriquez ,   b. Abt 1112, , , , Portugal Portugald. Aft 1130 (Age > 19 years)
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  Family 2	TRAVA, Count Fernando Perez de ,   b. Abt 1065, Trastamara, Spain Trastamara, Spaind. Aft 12 Dec 1105, Galicia, Spain (Age > 40 years)
  Marriage	1124
  Family ID	F16151	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

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  Teresa de Portugal, mãe de D. Afonso Henriques, é uma personagem fundamental da História portuguesa. No entanto a sua vida é pouco conhecida. E o que se sabe tem sido distorcido por interesses políticos e por preconceitos ancestrais. Descendente de nobres portucalenses, entre outros a poderosa Mumadona de Guimarães, ao casar-se com Henrique de Borgonha, seu pai, o rei D. Afonso VI de Castela e Leão, deu-lhe em dote os ricos e estratégicos territórios a sul do Minho que constituíram a origem do Portugal actual. Viúva aos vinte e cinco anos com três filhos pequenos, durante dez anos de governo autónomo e proveitoso, soube ganhar o apoio dos colaboradores do seu marido, como Egas Moniz, repelir os ataques muçulmanos a Coimbra e vencer mais de uma vez, pela astúcia ou pelas armas, a sua meia-irmã, a rainha Urraca de Castela. Caso único da História ocidental, uma mulher pode assim colocar-se à cabeça de um regnum até então inexistente e exercer o poder com o mesmo desembaraço que os homens. Em 1116, o Papa Pascoal II reconheceu-lhe o título de Rainha de Portugal. A sua relação política e sentimental com o conde Fernando Pérez de Trava desencadeou a rejeição daqueles que, baseados numa tradição milenar, consideravam que o governo nas mãos de uma mulher era algo perigoso ou, até mesmo, diabólico. Um confronto que acabaria em 1128 com a lendária batalha de São Mamede em que D.Teresa foi derrotada pelas forças partidárias do seu filho e herdeiro. Primeira narrativa da extraordinária vida de uma das governantes mais originais, inteligentes e empenhadas da Idade Média. Teresa era filha ilegítima do rei Afonso VI de Leão e Castela e de Ximena Moniz, uma nobre castelhana filha da condessa Velasquita Moniz e de Munio Moniz de Bierzo, conde de Bierzo. Viveu toda a infância na companhia da sua mãe e do seu avô materno, que a educaram, e da sua irmã Elvira. Em 1093 Teresa foi dada pelo seu pai em casamento a Henrique de Borgonha, um nobre francês que o tinha ajudado em muitas conquistas aos mouros. Teresa tinha à data treze anos e Henrique 24. Afonso VI doou-lhes então o Condado de Portugal, território entre o Minho e o Vouga que, a partir de 1096, se estenderia entre o Minho e o Tejo. D. Henrique teve vários filhos, mas poucos sobreviveram: o único varão que chegou a adulto foi Afonso Henriques, além das suas filhas Urraca, Sancha e Teresa Henriques. Depois da morte de Henrique em 1112 Teresa governou o condado como rainha, por direito próprio, sendo reconhecida como tal pelo papa, pela sua irmã, Urraca de Leão e, posteriormente, por seu sobrinho Afonso VII de Leão. A partir de 1117 assina como "Ego regina Taresia de Portugal regis Ildefonssis filia" Atacadas pelas forças de sua meia-irmã, a rainha D. Urraca, as forças de D. Teresa recuaram desde a margem esquerda do rio Minho, derrotadas e dispersas, até que D. Teresa se encerrou no Castelo de Lanhoso. Aí sofreu o cerco imposto por D. Urraca em 1121. Em posição de inferioridade, D. Teresa conseguiu ainda negociar o Tratado de Lanhoso, pelo qual salvou o seu governo do Condado Portucalense. Em aliança com D. Teresa na revolta galaico-portuguesa contra Urraca esteve Fernão Peres de Trava, da mais poderosa casa do Reino da Galiza. Os triunfos nas batalhas de Vilasobroso e Lanhoso selaram a aliança entre os Trava e Teresa de Portugal. Fernão Peres de Trava passou assim a governar o Porto e Coimbra e a firmar com Teresa importantes disposições e documentos no condado de Portugal. Com a morte de Urraca, Fernão Peres de Trava tornou-se um grande aliado do rei Afonso VII de Leão e Castela no Reino da Galiza. A aliança e ligação de D. Teresa com o conde galego Fernão Peres de Trava, de quem teve duas filhas, indispôs contra ela os nobres portucalenses e o seu próprio filho Afonso Henriques. Teresa exercera a regência do Condado Portucalense durante a menoridade de D. Afonso Henriques. Mas em 1122, sob a orientação de Paio Mendes arcebispo de Braga, Afonso pretendeu assegurar o seu domínio no condado e armou-se cavaleiro em Zamora. Em breve os interesses estratégicos de mãe e filho entraram em conflito. Em 1128, juntando os cavaleiros portugueses à sua causa contra Fernão Peres de Trava e Teresa de Leão, Afonso Henriques derrotou ambos na batalha de São Mamede, quando pretendiam tomar a soberania do espaço galaico-português, e assumiu o governo do condado. Obrigada desse modo a deixar a governação, alguns autores defendem que foi detida pelo próprio filho no Castelo de Lanhoso ou se exilou num convento na Póvoa de Lanhoso, onde veio a falecer em 1130. Modernamente, depreende-se que após a batalha e já em fuga, ela e o conde Fernão Peres foram aprisionados e expulsos de Portugal. D. Teresa teria falecido na Galiza, possivelmente no mosteiro de Montederramo que refundara em 1124, de acordo com um documento assinado em Allariz. Os seus restos mortais foram trazidos mais tarde, por ordem expressa do seu filho já rei Afonso I de Portugal, para a Sé de Braga, onde ainda hoje repousam junto ao túmulo de seu marido, o conde D. Henrique. Do seu casamento com Henrique de Borgonha, conde de Portugal, nasceram cinco filhos: Urraca Henriques (c. 1095), casou com D. Bermudo Peres de Trava Sancha Henriques (c.1097-1163), casou com D. Sancho Nunes de Celanova e com D. Fernão Mendes de Bragança II, senhor de Bragança Teresa Henriques (n. c. 1098). Henrique (c.Posterior 1098 - c. Anterior 1110). Afonso Henriques, rei de Portugal como Afonso I (n. 1109 em Guimarães - f. 6 de dezembro de 1185, em Coimbra), casou com Mafalda de Saboia. De sua relação com Fernão Peres de Trava nasceram duas filhas: Sancha Fernandes de Trava, que casou três vezes, tendo filhos apenas de seu primeiro marido, o conde Alvaro Rodrigues de Sarria.[4][5] Teresa Fernandes de Trava (morta em 1180 e sepultada no Mosteiro de San Isidoro de Leão) casou-se em primeiras núpcias com o conde Nuno Peres de Lara, com quem teve descendência, e em segundas núpcias, em Setembro de 1178, com o rei Fernando II de Leão BIO: Inherited the Countship of Portugal. Reported as the illegitimate daughter of Jimena Munoz in The Making of Spain (Gabriel Jackson) pp 76, 203 ** from http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/CASTILE.htm#AlfonsoVIdied1109B, as of 11/6/2014 TERESA Alfonso ([1081/82]-1 Nov 1130). The Chronicon Regum Legionensium names "Jimena Muñoz" as the first of two concubines of King Alfonso, and their daughters "Elvira the wife of count Raymond of Toulouse…and Teresa the wife of Count Henry"[591]. Her birth date is estimated based on her having given birth to a child by her relationship with Fernando Pérez de Traba which started in 1124. Her parentage is confirmed by the charter dated 23 Mar 1143 under which her daughter Sancha Enríquez property in Trobajo del Cerecedo, which she inherited from "avia mea dompna Hensemena Muñiz…et de mater mea eius filia regina dompna Teresa", to the parents of Juan Albertino Bishop of León[592]. The 13th century history of Sahagún monastery records that "el Rey D. Alonso…una hija…Teresa" married "un Conde…Enrique que venia de sangre Real de Francia"[593]. An early 12th century document at Fleury records that "Ainrico uni filiorum, filio…ducis Roberti" married "alteram filiam…non ex coniugali" of Alfonso VI King of Castile[594]. “Comite Dono Henrico...cum uxore mea Infante Dona Taraxea” granted privileges to “Villa Constantin de Panonias”, confirmed by “Infans Dono Alfoso filius Henrici comiti et uxor mea Infante Dona Taraxia”, by charter dated 1096[595]. "…Taraxia Adefonsi regis filia…Henrik comes…" subscribed the charter dated 14 Mar 1099 under which Alfonso VI King of Castile donated the monastery of Santa María de Algadefe to the monastery of Eslonza[596]. Regent of Portugal 1112-1123. Queen of Portugal 1113. The Historia Compostelana records that “Fernando Perride, Petris Comitis filio” left his lawful wife and lived in adultery with “Regina Tarasia”[597]. The Chronica Adefonsi Imperatoris records that Alfonso VII King of Castile met "Teresa queen of the Portuguese and with Count Fernando" at Ricobayo and made peace with them after his accession in 1126[598]. The Chronicon Lusitanum records the death “Kal Nov” in 1168 (1130) of “Regina Donna Tarasia mater Donni Alfonsi…anno secundo regni”[599]. m (before 24 Aug 1092[600]) HENRI de Bourgogne, son of HENRI “le damoiseau” de Bourgogne [Capet] & his wife [Sibylla] [de Barcelona] ([1069/72]-killed in battle Astorga, León 22 May 1112, bur Braga Cathedral). He may have arrived in Spain with the expedition of the Eudes I Duke of Burgundy in 1086/87, following a call from the abbey of Cluny to fight "the infidel"[601]. Señor de Braga [1093], count in Tordesillas 1096/97. The dating clause of a charter dated 9 Oct 1096, under which "Pelayo Xemeniz" donated land “en Ville Ceide...” to the monastery of San Salvador, records “Sanxus comes in Toro et alius comes domino Ancricco in Auctario de Selles, comes Remundus tenente in Coria et in Zamora”[602]. The dating clause of a charter dated 19 Jan 1097, under which "Brabolio Gutierrez" sold land “en territorio de León las villas Cubillas” to “Ordoño Sarraciniz y a su mujer Fronilde Ovéquiz”, records “comes Raimundus in Galicia et in Zamora, comes domno Enrriz in Otero de Sellas, comite Petro Ansurez in Saldania”[603]. He made a mutual pact in [Dec 1094/Jul 1095] with Raymond de Bourgogne, husband of Infanta Urraca de Castilla, under which he promised support in securing Castile and León for Raymond in return for a pledge to grant him Toledo (or in default, Galicia)[604]. Alfonso VI King of Castile made him a large grant of land, from the Río Miño in the north to Santarem in the south, in [1095/96], which in effect resulted in his installation as HENRIQUE Conde de Portugal. This grant may have been motivated as much by a desire to offset the growing power of his son-in-law, Raymond de Bourgogne, as to increase the power base of Henri de Bourgogne. Mistress: (1124) of FERNANDO Pérez de Traba Conde de Trastámara, son of PEDRO Froilaz de Traba & his first wife Urraca Froilaz. ** from Wikipedia listing for Theresa, Countess of Portugal, as of 11/6/2014 Theresa of Portugal (Portuguese: Teresa; Galician-Portuguese: Tareja) (1080 – 11 November 1130) was the Countess of Portugal. She rebelled against vassalage to the Kingdom of León, and was referred to as Queen of Portugal by the pope in 1116, but was forced to accept Portugal's status as a county subject to León in 1121. Her political and amorous affairs with Galician nobleman Fernando Pérez de Traba led to her ouster by her son, Afonso Henriques, who with the support of the Portuguese nobility and clergy defeated her at the Battle of São Mamede in 1128. Birth and marriage Theresa was the illegitimate daughter of King Alfonso VI of León and Castile by Ximena Moniz. In 1093, her father married her to a French nobleman, Henry of Burgundy, nephew of Queen Constance, a brother of the Duke of Burgundy, a descendant of the kings of France in the male line. Henry was providing military assistance to his father-in-law against the Muslims on the Portuguese march. In the first months of 1096, Henry and his cousin Raymond of Burgundy, husband of Queen Urraca, reached an agreement whereby each swore under oath that Raymond would give Henry the kingdom of Toledo and one-third of the royal treasury after King Alfonso's death and, if that was not possible, Henry would receive the kingdom of Galicia, while Henry, in turn, promised to support his cousin Raymond in securing all of the king's dominions and two-thirds of the treasury. King Alfonso, however, after becoming aware of this covenant, appointed Henry governor of all the land between the Minho River and Santarem, governed until then by Raymond, thereby limiting his son-in-law's government to Galicia. The two cousins then, instead of being allies, became rivals, each vying to obtain the king's favor. Upon the death of King Alfonso, Henry and Theresa continued governing these lands south of the Minho, and later, in December 1111 under the reign of Queen Urraca, were also governing Zamora.[1] Struggle with sister At first, Theresa and Henry were vassals of her father, but Alfonso VI died in 1109, leaving everything to his legitimate daughter, Queen Urraca of Castile. Henry invaded León, hoping to add it to his lands. When he died in 1112, Theresa was left to deal with the military and political situation. She took on the responsibility of government, and occupied herself at first mainly with her southern lands, that had only recently been reconquered from the Moors as far as the Mondego River. In recognizing her victory in defending Coimbra, she was called "Queen" by Pope Paschal II and in light of this recognition, she appears in her documents as "Daughter of Alphonso and elected by God", explicitly being called queen in an 1117 document, leading some to refer to her as the first monarch of Portugal.[2] In 1116, in an effort to expand her power, Theresa fought her half-sister, Queen Urraca. They fought again in 1120, as she continued to pursue a larger share in the Leonese inheritance, and allied herself as a widow to the most powerful Galician nobleman for that effect. This was the Fernando Pérez, Count of Trava, who had rejected his first wife to openly marry her, and served her on her southern border of the Mondego. In 1121, she was besieged and captured at Lanhoso, on her northern border with Galicia, fighting her sister Urraca. A negotiated peace was coordinated with aid from the Archbishops of Santiago de Compostela and Braga. The terms included that Theresa can go free only if she holds the County of Portugal as a vassal of León, as she had received it at first. Rebellions By 1128, the Archbishop of Braga and the main Portuguese feudal nobles had had enough of her persistent Galician alliance, which the first feared could favour the ecclesiastical pretensions of his new rival the Galician Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela, Diego Gelmírez, who had just started to assert his pretensions to an alleged discovery of relics of Saint James in his town, as his way to gain power and riches over the other cathedrals in the Iberian Peninsula. The Portuguese lords rebelled, and the Queen was deposed after a short civil war. Her son and heir, Afonso, defeated Teresa's troops at the Battle of São Mamede near Guimarães and led her, along with the Count of Traba and their children, into exile in the kingdom of Galicia, near the Portuguese border, where the Traba had founded the monastery of Toxas Altas. Teresa died soon afterwards in 1130. She was succeeded by her son, who would eventually lead Portugal into becoming a fully independent nation. Issue By Henry, Count of Portugal, Theresa had: Urraca of Portugal (born c. 1095-after 1169), wife of Bermudo Pérez de Traba, son of count Pedro Fróilaz, with issue.[3] Sancha of Portugal (1097–1163), appears in 1129 as the wife of Sancho Núñez. Their daughter, María Sánchez was the abbess at the Monastery of Sobrado in Galicia.[4] Theresa of Portugal (born c. 1098) Henry of Portugal (1106–1110) King Afonso I of Portugal (1109–1185) Pedro, abbot at the Monastery of Alcobaça where he was buried.[5] She had two daughters with count Fernando Pérez de Traba: Teresa Fernández de Traba (d. 1180) wife of count Nuño Pérez de Lara (d. 1177) and, when widowed, the second wife of King Ferdinand II of León.[6] Sancha Fernández de Traba (d. after March 1181). Married before 1150 count Álvaro Rodríguez de Sarria, with issue. After being widowed, she became the second wife of count Pedro Alfonso and, widowed again, married count Gonzalo Ruiz; without any issue from these two marriages.[7] Notes Wikimedia Commons has media related to Theresa of Portugal (1080-1130). (Martínez Díez 2003, pp. 170–71 and 225–26) Marsilio Cassotti, "D. Teresa utilizou armas de homens" - Jornal de Notícias (p.39), 13 July 2008 (López Sangil 2002, p. 89) López Morán, Enriqueta (2005). "El monacato femenino gallego en la Alta Edad Media (Lugo y Orense) (Siglos XIII al XV)". Nalgures (II) (A Coruña: Asociación Cultura de Estudios Históricos de Galicia). pp. 49–142 (vid pp. 88–89). ISSN 1885-6349. Manrique, Ángel (1649). Anales cistercienses 2. p. 413. (Torres Sevilla 1999, p. 230) (Torres Sevilla 1999, p. 183) References LÓPEZ-SANGIL, José Luis (2002). La nobleza altomedieval gallega, la familia Froílaz-Traba. La Coruña: Toxosoutos, S.L. ISBN 84-95622-68-8. MARTÍNEZ DIEZ, Gonzalo (2003). Alfonso VI: Señor del Cid, conquistador de Toledo. Madrid: Temas de Hoy, S.A. ISBN 84-8460-251-6. MATTOSO, José, D. Afonso Henriques, Círculo de Leitores e Centro de Estudos dos Povos e Culturas de Expressão Portuguesa, 1st ed., Lisboa, 2006, ISBN 978-972-42-3867-8. TORRES SEVILLA-QUIÑONES DE LEÓN, Margarita Cecilia (1999). Linajes nobiliarios de León y Castilla: Siglos IX-XIII. Salamanca: Junta de Castilla y León, Consejería de educación y cultura. ISBN 84-7846-781-5.

  
  

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  [S72] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (TM), (June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998). [S64] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index. HENRI DE BURGUNDY; Male; Birth: 1035 , Bourgogne Province, France; Death: 1112; Father: HENRI DE BURGUNDY; Mother: SIBIL DE BURGUNDY; Spouse: Teresa PRINCESS OF LEON AND CASTILE; Marriage: 1093 Of Castile, , , Spain; No source information is available. Record submitted after 1991 by a member of the LDS Church. Search performed using PAF Insight on 23 Sep 2004