Ancestral Trails 2016 » CONSTANCE de CASTILE (1138-1160)

Personal data CONSTANCE de CASTILE 

• She was born in the year 1138 in Burgos, Burgos, Castilla-Leon, Spain.
• She died on October 4, 1160, she was 22 years old.
• A child of ALFONSO de CASTILE and BERENGUELA de BARCELONA

Household of CONSTANCE de CASTILE

She has/had a relationship with LOUIS de FRANCE.

Child(ren):

1. Margaret de FRANCE  1157-1197
2. ALAIS de FRANCE  1160-???? 

• The couple has common ancestors.



Notes about CONSTANCE de CASTILE

Constance of Castile (c 1140 - 4 October 1160) was the second wife of Louis VII, King of France, following his annulment from Eleanor of Aquitaine. She was a daughter of Alphonse VII, King of Galicia, León and Castile, and Berenguela of Barcelona, but her year of birth is not certainly known. Her maternal grandparents were Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona and his third wife Dulce Aldonza Milhaud.
The official reason for her husband's divorce from Eleanor of Aquitaine had been that he was too close a relative of Eleanor for the marriage to be legal by Church standards; however, he was even more closely related to Constance.
Constance died giving birth to her second child. Desperate for a son, her husband remarried a mere five weeks after her death.
Constance was buried in the Basilica of Saint-Denis, France.

Children
Constance bore her husband two children:
Margaret of France, 1157-1197, who married first Henry the Young King of England, and then Béla III of Hungary, by whom she had a son.
Alys of France, 1160-1220, who was betrothed (but never married) to Richard I of England, and later married to William IV of Ponthieu.


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