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Robert "the Old" Duke of Burgundy
(Abt 1011-1076)
Hélie
(1016-1055)
Henry of Burgundy
(Abt 1035-Abt 1071)
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Henry of Burgundy, Count of Portugal
(1069-1112)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Theresa of Leon and Castile

Henry of Burgundy, Count of Portugal 1 2 3

  • Born: 1069, <Bourgogne, Champagne>, France
  • Marriage (1): Theresa of Leon and Castile in 1093
  • Died: 1 Nov 1112 at age 43

   Other names for Henry were Henri of Burgundy, Count of Portugal, Henrique of Burgundy, Count of Portugal, Henry I de Bourgogne and Henry I Count of Portugal.

  Research Notes:

From Wikipedia - Henry, Count of Portugal :

Henry of Burgundy, Count of Portugal (1066 -1112 ) was Count of Portugal from 1093 to his death. He was the son of Henry of Burgundy , heir of Robert I, Duke of Burgundy , and brother of Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy and Eudes I, Duke of Burgundy . His name is Henri in modern French , Henricus in Latin , Enrique in modern Spanish and Henrique in modern Portuguese . He was a distant cousin of Raymond of Burgundy and Pope Callistus II .
As a younger son, Henry had little chances of acquiring fortune and titles by inheritance, thus he joined the Reconquista against the Moors in the Iberian Peninsula . He helped king Alfonso VI of Castile and León conquer modern Galicia and the north of Portugal and in reward he married Alfonso's daughter Theresa, Countess of Portugal in 1093 , receiving the County of Portugal , then a fiefdom of the Kingdom of León , as a dowry .

From Teresa, Henry had three sons and three daughters. The only son to survive childhood was Afonso Henriques , who became the second Count of Portugal in 1112. However, the young man Afonso was energetic and expanded his dominions at the expense of Muslims . In 1139 , he declared himself King of Portugal after reneging the subjugation to León, in open confrontation with his mother. Two daughters also survived childhood, Urraca and Sancha. Urraca Henriques married a Bermudo Peres de Trava, Count of Trastamara. Sancha Henriques married a nobleman, Sancho Nunes de Celanova.


Henry married Theresa of Leon and Castile, daughter of Alfonso VI "the Brave" of Castile, King of Castile and Leon and Ximena Nunia de Guzman, in 1093. (Theresa of Leon and Castile was born about 1070 in <Toledo, Castile>, Spain and died on 1 Nov 1130.)


Sources


1 <i>Wikipedia.org</i>, Henry, Count of Portugal.

2 Weis, Frederick Lewis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr; William R. Beall and Kaleen E. Beall, eds, <i>Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700</i> (8th ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2008.), Line 112-24.

3 <i>http://www.familysearch.org</i>, Cit. Date: 8 Aug 2009.


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