1108-1109 lost her husband, brother Sancho and her father in battle. Married again, Alfonso the Battler, King of Aragon but annulled marriage.
Urraca of Castile (1082 – March 8, 1126) was Queen of Castile and León from 1109 to her death. She was the daughter of Alfonso VI of Castile by his second wife, Constance of Burgundy. She became heiress to her father's kingdom after her only brother was killed in the Battle of Ucles in 1108.
She was married, as a child, to Raymond of Burgundy who died in September 1107. They had two children: the Infante Alfonso Raimúndez (born 1104) and the Infanta Sancha (born before 1095). Now a widow, Urraca was ruler of Galicia. She was also her father's only surviving legitimate child, and now the heiress to Castile. King Alfonso VI selected a new husband for her. His choice fell on Alfonso I of Aragon who he hoped would safeguard the kingdom. Alfonso was renowned as a great warrior. According to the chronicler Ibn al-Athir, he once remarked that a real soldier lives with men, not with women.
Urraca and Alfonso of Aragon were related within forbidden degrees. Bernard, Archbishop of Toledo, objected to the marriage on these grounds and condemned it as consanguinous.. Nevertheless, Urraca and Alfonso were married in October 1109 in Monzón. Urraca accused Alsonso of being physically abusive to her. Their inability to produce a child created a further rift between them. The royal couple were separated by 1111 and their marriage was annulled in 1114. Urraca never remarried though she took several lovers, including Count Gómez González.
Urraca's reign was disturbed by strife among the powerful nobles and especially by constant warfare with her husband who had seized her lands. Another thorn on her side was her brother-in-law, Henry, the husband of her half-sister Teresa of Leon. He alternatively allied with Alfonso I of Aragon, then betrayed Alfonso for a better offer from Urraca's court. After Henry's death in 1112, his widow, Teresa, still contested ownership of lands with Urraca. With the aid of her son, Alfonso Raimúndez, Urraca was able to win back much of her domain and ruled successfully for many years.
According to the Chronicon Compostellanum, Urraca died in childbirth in 1126. The father was her lover, Count Pedro González of Lara. She was succeeded by her legitimate son, Alfonso VII.
Besides her two legitimate children by Raymond of Burgundy, Urraca also had an illegitimate son by her lover, Pedro González de Lara. She recognized their son, Fernando Perez Furtado, in 1123.
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Sunifred I, or Suinifredo in Spanish and Sunyer in Catalan, was the count of many Catalan and Septimanian counties; including Ausona, Besalú, Gerona, Narbonne, Agde, Béziers, Lodève, Melgueil, Cerdanya, Urgel, Conflent, and Nîmes; and count of Barcelona from 844 to 848.
He was the son of Belló, count of Carcassonne.
In 834, he was named count of Urgel and Cerdanya, which were at the time in the control of Aznar I Galíndez (an ally of the Banu Qasi, by Louis the Pious, Holy Roman Emperor. Sunifred conquered Cerdanya in 835 and Urgel three years later (838). By the death of Bernard of Septimania, he received the march of Gothia. He then augmented his domains when Conflent fell into his hands, as count of Cerdanya, on the death of Bera II.
In 841, the Moors invaded Barcelona and marched against Narbonne through the region of Cerdanya. Sunifred stopped them cold in battle, an event which certainly influenced Charles the Bald's appointment of him to the counties of Barcelona, Ausona, Besalú, Gerona, Narbonne, Agde, Béziers, Lodève, and Nîmes in 844.
Throughout his reign, he was aloof of William of Septimania, son of Bernard, who had risen in 844 against Charles the Bald.
He died in 848 and his counties were given away by the Frankish king. One of his nephews, Wilfred the Hairy was appointed count in 878 and his direct descendants ruled until the death of Martin I of Aragón in 1410 and the Pact of Caspe in 1412.
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Sunifred II (in Catalan, Sunyer; and in Spanish, Suñer) (c.840–915) was the count of Ampurias from 862 and Roussillon from 896 until his death. He was the son of Sunifred I, count of Barcelona.
He and his brother Dela obtained the county of Ampurias in 862 after Humfrid, margrave of Gothia, rebelled. They governed it together until Dela's death. In 878, the council of Troyes deposed Bernat of Gothia, who had held Roussillon since 865. It was given to Miro the Elder and, in 896, when Miro died, it passed by heredity to Sunifred. Together with Dela, he tried to occupy Gerona, but their cousin, Wilfred the Hairy, stopped them. In 888, he travelled to Orléans to do homage to King Odo of France. In 891, he prepared a naval expedition to attack Moorish Almería. The campaign, however, ended in a truce. He married a woman named Ermengarda.
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Uchtred (or Uhtred), called the Bold, was the earl of Northumbria from 995 to 1016, when he was assassinated. He was the son of Waltheof I, earl of Bernicia, whose ancient family had ruled from Bamburgh north of the Tees since the late ninth century. By 1013, when Sweyn Forkbeard landed in England, the Bernician family, now no longer under Norse control from York, had succeeded in extending its power south of the Tees and becoming earls of all Northumbria.
In 1006, while his father was alive but far too aged, Uhtred defeated Máel Coluim II of Scotland at the siege of Durham. However, probably in 1016, Malcolm returned with Owen the Bald, king of Strathclyde, and defeated Uhtred at the Battle of Carham. The situation at the Scottish border then changed considerably.
When Sweyn's son, Canute the Great, took up his father's fight against King Ethelred II of England (a fight he eventually won) and went to harry the Great North Road, Uhtred did homage to him as king of England.
In 1016, invited to a meeting with Canute, Uhtred was murdered by Thurbrand the Hold. He was succeeded by his son Eadulf II, but only in Bernicia. Over all Northumbria, Canute placed Eric of Hlathir. Uhtred's son Ealdred killed Thurbrand and Thurbrand's son Carl killed Ealdred. Nonetheless, Uhtred's dynasty continued to reign until 1041, and briefly a scion ruled in 1067.
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