{"id":5248,"date":"2016-05-23T09:09:43","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T16:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/?p=5248"},"modified":"2016-05-23T09:09:43","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T16:09:43","slug":"sylum-inspiration-urraca-of-leon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/sylum-inspiration-urraca-of-leon\/","title":{"rendered":"Sylum Inspiration: Urraca of Leon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Integridad: Council Member<\/h2>\n

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Urraca <\/a>was the eldest surviving child of Alfonso VI of Le\u00f3n with his second wife Constance of Burgundy, and as eldest legitimate child of her father was heiress presumptive from her birth until 1107, when Alfonso recognized his illegitimate son Sancho as his heir. Urraca became heiress presumptive again after Sancho\u2019s death the following year, when he was killed after the Battle of Ucl\u00e9s.<\/p>\n

Urraca\u2019s place in the line of succession made her the focus of dynastic politics, and she became a child bride at age eight to Raymond of Burgundy, a mercenary adventurer. Author Bernard F. Reilly suggests that, rather than a betrothal, the eight-year-old Urraca was fully wedded to Raymond of Burgundy, as he almost immediately appears in protocol documents as Alfonso VI\u2019s son-in-law, a distinction that would not have been made without the marriage. Reilly doubts that the marriage was consummated until Urraca was 13, as she was placed under the protective guardianship of a trusted magnate. Her pregnancy and stillbirth at age 14 suggest that the marriage was indeed consummated when she was 13 or 14 years old.<\/p>\n

Urraca\u2019s marriage to Raymond was part of Alfonso VI\u2019s diplomatic strategy to attract cross-Pyrenees alliances, and in 1105 she gave birth to a son, who would become Alfonso VII. However, after Raymond died in 1107, Urraca\u2019s father contracted with Alfonso I of Aragon, known as the Battler, for a dynastic marriage with Urraca, opening the opportunity for uniting Le\u00f3n-Castile with Aragon.<\/p>\n

The marriage of Urraca and Alfonso I almost immediately sparked rebellions in Galicia and scheming by her illegitimate half-sister Theresa and brother-in-law Henry, the Countess and Count of Portugal.<\/p>\n

As their relationship soured, Urraca accused Alfonso of physical abuse, and by May 1110 Urraca separated from Alfonso. In addition to her objections to Alfonso\u2019s handling of rebels, the couple had a falling-out over his execution of one of the rebels who had surrendered to the queen, to whom the queen was inclined to be merciful. Additionally, as Urraca was married to someone many in the kingdom objected to, the queen\u2019s son and heir became a rallying point for opponents to the marriage.<\/p>\n

Estrangement between husband and wife escalated from discrete and simmering hostilities into open armed warfare between the Leonese-Castilians and the Aragonese. An alliance between Alfonso of Aragon and Henry of Portugal culminated in the 1111 Battle of Candespina in which Urraca\u2019s lover and chief supporter G\u00f3mez Gonz\u00e1lez was killed. He was soon replaced in both roles by another count, Pedro Gonz\u00e1lez de Lara, who took up the fight and would father two of Urraca\u2019s children. By the fall of 1112 a truce was brokered between Urraca and Alfonso with their marriage annulled. Though Urraca recovered Asturias, Leon, and Galicia, Alfonso occupied a significant portion of Castile (where Urraca enjoyed large support), while her half-sister Theresa and her husband Count Henry of Portugal occupied Zamora and Extremadura. Recovering these regions and expanding into Muslim lands would occupy much of Urraca\u2019s foreign policy.<\/p>\n

According to author Bernard F. Reilly, the measure of success for Urraca\u2019s rule was her ability to restore and protect the integrity of her inheritance \u2013 that is, the kingdom of her father \u2013 and transmit that inheritance in full to her own heir. Policies and events pursued by Alfonso VI \u2013 namely legitimizing her brother and thereby providing an opportunity for her illegitimate half-sister to claim a portion of the patrimony, as well as the forced marriage with Alfonso I of Aragon \u2013 contributed in large part to the challenges Urraca faced upon her succession. Additionally, the circumstance of Urraca\u2019s gender added a distinctive role-reversal dimension to diplomacy and politics, which Urraca used to her advantage.<\/p>\n

For More Information Contact the Vampire Council Library<\/a><\/p>\n

It was during this time she met Rodrigo, they became lovers and when he told her about who he really was and the truth about Vampires, she agreed to be Turned and they were soon Mated. Though it had meant giving up her reign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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