Ancestral Trails 2016 » HENRI de BURGUNDY (1066-1112)

Personal data HENRI de BURGUNDY 

• He was born in the year 1066 in Dijon, Côte-d'Or, Bourgogne, France.
• Title: Count of Portugal
• (Alternative Name) : Henri de Portugal.
• He died on November 1, 1112 in Villa de Guimar, Braga, Portugal, he was 46 years old.
• A child of HENRI de BURGUNDY and SYBILLE de BARCELONA

Household of HENRI de BURGUNDY

He is married to TERESA de CASTILE.

They got married in the year 1093 at Villa de Guimar, Braga, Portugal, he was 27 years old.

Child(ren):

1. ALFONSO de PORTUGAL  1110-1185 
2. Urraca Henriques de BURGUNDY  1095-> 1169

• The couple has common ancestors.



Notes about HENRI de BURGUNDY

Henry (Portuguese: Henrique, French: Henri; 1066-1112), the father of the first king of Portugal, Afonso Henriques, was the first member of the House of Burgundy to rule the County of Portugal.

Born in 1066 in Dijon, Duchy of Burgundy, Count Henry was the youngest son of Henry, the second son of Robert I, Duke of Burgundy. His two older brothers, Hugh I and Odo, inherited the duchy. Even though his mother Sibylla is often mentioned in traditional genealogies as the daughter of Berenguer Ramon I, Count of Barcelona, and his wife Guisla de Lluçà, this filiation is not recorded in any medieval charter. Sibylla may have been the daughter of Reginald I, which would make her the maternal aunt of Raymond of Burgundy who would be, if these filiations are correct, Henry’s first cousin.

One of his paternal aunts was Constance of Burgundy, the wife of Alfonso VI of León, and one of his grand-uncles was Hugh, Abbot of Cluny, one of the most influential and venerated personalities of his time. Count Henry’s family was very powerful and governed many cities in France such as Chalon, Auxerre, Autun, Nevers, Dijon, Mâcon y Semur.

Count Henry was the leader of a group of gentlemen, monks, and clerics of French origin who exerted great influence in the Iberian Peninsula, promoted many reforms and introduced several institutions from the other side of the Pyrenees, such as the customs of Cluny and the Roman Rite. They occupied relevant ecclesiastical and political positions which provoked a strong backlash during the last years of the reign of King Alfonso VI.

He married Teresa of León around 1095. From Teresa, Henry had three sons and three daughters of whom four survived to adulthood:

Urraca Henriques (c. 1095-after 1169), the wife of Bermudo Pérez de Traba, son of Pedro Fróilaz de Traba and his first wife Urraca Fróilaz, tenente in Trastámara, Viseu, Seia, and Faro in A Coruña.

Sancha Henriques (c. 1097-1163), married the nobleman Sancho Nunes de Celanova. On 15 July 1129, the abbess of the Monastery of San Salvador de Ferreira de Pantón purchased from Mendo Núñez, his brother Sancho, and the wife of the latter, Sancha Henriques, some properties in Estriz. One of their daughters, María, was the abbess at the Monastery of San Salvador de Sobrado de Trives. They were also the parents of count Velasco, Gil, Fernando, and Teresa Sánchez. After becoming a widow, she married Fernando Méndez de Braganza, with no issue from this second marriage.

Afonso Henriques (1109-1185). He was named after his maternal grandfather, King Alfonso VI perhaps "as a way of remembering that the blood of the Emperor of all Hispania also ran through his veins". Henry became Count of Portugal in 1112 and King of Portugal in 1139.

Pedro, abbot at the Monastery of Alcobaça where he was buried.
SOURCE: Wikipedia


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