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Elvira of Castile, Queen of León

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that Teresa has been confused with one of the daughters of King Sancho II of Pamplona, called Urraca or Abda, who was given by her father to Almanzor in 983 since Teresa was not born until after 991, the year of her parents' wedding. Simon Barton recently suggested that though she is unlikely to have married in 993, it is possible that she may later have been married by her brother to a Muslim prince as reported by Bishop Pelagius, but that this was one of Almanzor's sons, 'Abd al-Malik al-Muzaffar or 'Abd al-Rahman Sanchuelo, whose deaths in 1008 and 1009 respectively may have allowed Teresa's return.
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clan named Munio Fernández, who seemed to count with King Sancho's support, rebelled against the king. "This rupture coincided or rather gave rise to Queen Elvira's retirement in Oviedo where she died in the autumn of 1017". Elvira's presence is recorded for the last time on August 18, 1017 with her
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concluded that these referred the same event, and that Teresa Bermúdez was given by her father or her brother to Almanzor and, being freed in 1003 after Almanzor's death, she returned to the Kingdom of León where she became a nun. Modern historians question the veracity of these events, believing
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Teresa Bermúdez (died on April 25, 1039). In 1017, she confirmed her mother's grant to Santiago de Compostela, and she and her sister Sancha were involved in a lawsuit over the monastery of Santa Eulalia de Fingoy the same year. As a nun, probably at the
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Alfonso, a minor, anointed king by October 13 of that year, under the tutorship of his mother, Queen Elvira. The document where Alfonso appears for the first time as King, was confirmed by his mother, followed by count
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The marriage was celebrated near the end of November 991 and both appear together confirming royal charters as of 992. The marriage, which took place after Bermudo repudiated his first wife,
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community of Córdoba, Asbag bin Abd Allah bin Nabil, ruled in favour of Menendo who continued to be the king's tutor until his death in October 1008, after which Alfonso ruled on his own.
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Although the year of her birth is not documented, she must have been born shortly before or after 978 since she does not appear with her older sisters,
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between 988 and 991, sealed an alliance between the Kingdom of León and the County of Castile which significantly strengthened the Leonese crown.
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where she later died, she made grants of her own and with her sister Sancha to Santiago in 1028 and 1030, respectively. According to Bishop
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Salazar y Acha, Jaime de (2013). "Reflexiones e hipótesis sobre algunas incógnitas genealógicas de la antigua dinastía asturleonesa".
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in November 24 of that year. Her husband, Bermudo II of León was her first cousin, if Bermudo's debated filiation as the son of Queen
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The good relations between Alfonso and his maternal uncle, Count Sancho García, were broken in 1014 when a member of the
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If Bermudo was the son of Urraca Fernández, both were grandchildren of Count
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who made her his slave, freed her later and then married her. Dutch Arabist
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El Condado de Castilla (711–1038): la historia frente a la leyenda
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Bermudo II died in September 999. He was succeeded by his son,
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Burials in the Royal Pantheon at the Basilica of San Isidoro
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Reyes de León: Alfonso V (999-1028) -Vermudo III (1028-1037)
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Torres Sevilla-Quiñones de León, Margarita Cecilia (1999).
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Linajes nobiliarios de León y Castilla: Siglos IX-XIII
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Pantheon of the Kings at the Basilica de San Isidoro.
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Elvira of Castile, Queen of Leon
Elvira of Castile

Bermudo II of León
García Fernández of Castile
Ava de Ribagorza
Bermudo II
regent
Menendo González
Alfonso V
Urraca
Covarrubias
Urraca Fernández
Velasquita Ramírez

Menendo González
Sancho García
Córdoban
hajib
al-Muzaffar
qadi
Mozarabic
Banu Gómez
Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela
Basilica of San Isidoro
León
Monastery of San Pelayo
Oviedo
Pelagius of Oviedo
Arab

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