TRAVA, Teresa Fernandez de

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• Name	TRAVA, Teresa Fernandez de
  Birth	1117	Toledo, Castile-La Mancha, Spain
  Gender	Female
  Burial	Feb 1180
  Death	6 Feb 1180	Leon, Leon, Spain
  WAC	1 Dec 2000	PROVO
  _TAG	Reviewed on FS
  Person ID	I29513	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2021

  
  

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  F16634

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  Family	LEON, Fernando Alfonsez II,   b. 1137, Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain d. 22 Jan 1188, Benavente, Zamora, Castile-León, Spain (Age 51 years)
  Marriage	Bef 7 Oct 1178	León, Castile-León, Spain   [1]
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022
  Family ID	F16210	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  Teresa Fernández de Traba (died 6 February 1180, León) was the queen consort of León (1178–1180) during the reign of Ferdinand II. Teresa was the illegitimate daughter of Count Fernando Pérez de Traba, Lord of Trastamara and his mistress, Theresa, Countess of Portugal. She was already married to Count Nuño Pérez de Lara in 1152 when both ceded Castronuño to its inhabitants and established its borders, maintaining certain rights over the village after King Alfonso VII of León and Castile donated it in 1156 or 1157 to the Knights Hospitaller.[1] On 29 January 1160 Teresa and husband Nuño founded the Cistercian convent of Santa María at Perales,[2] donating to Ozenda, the first abbess, all their properties in Perales and Zorita. In 1174, they gave the bishop of Burgos the village of Barchilona in exchange for all the rights and properties of the hospital in Puente de Fitero which they had founded and donated to the Knights Hospitaller. Following the death of Nuño in 1177, Teresa went to the Leonese court,[3] and there, before 7 October 1178, she married King Ferdinand II of León (1137–1188). Thanks to this marriage, her children lived at the court and boasted of being the offspring of a Queen of León as attested by a charter where her son Álvaro making a donation to the Monastery of Sobrado called himself filius comitis domni Nunonis et regine domne Tarasie. She died as a result of childbirth two years later, on 6 February 1180 and was buried at the Royal Pantheon in the Basilica of San Isidoro in León.[3] Her remains were placed in a stone coffin the cover of which bore a half-length effigy of the late queen wearing a dress with tight gem-studded cuffs and neckline. Her hair was loose and a royal crown was placed around her

  
  

• Sources

  [S64] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index. Fernando II King of Leon; Male; Spouse: Teresa Fernandez de Trava; Marriage: Before 07 OCT 1178 Of, Leon, Leon, Spain; No source information is available. Record submitted after 1991 by a member of the LDS Church. Search performed using PAF Insight on 22 Sep 2004