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Birth:          ABT 1080 of Toledo, Castile
Death:          1 Nov 1130 
Burial:         Braga Cathedral

Notes
inherited the countship of Portugal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teresa_of_Le%C3%B3n,_Countess_of_Portugal
Teresa of León (Portuguese: Teresa; Galician-Portuguese: Tareja) (1080 – 11 
November 1130) was Countess and Queen of Portugal. She rebelled against vassalic 
ties with her half-sister Urraca , was recognised as Queen by Pope Paschal II in 1116, 
but forced to accept Portugal's vassalage to León in 1121, although keeping her royal 
title.[1] Her political and amorous affairs with Galician nobleman Fernando Pérez de 
Traba led to her ouster by her son, Afonso Henriques, who with the support of the 
Portuguese nobility and clergy defeated her at the Battle of São Mamede in 1128.
Birth and marriage[edit]

Teresa was the illegitimate daughter of King Alfonso VI of León and Castile by Jimena 
Muñoz.[2] In 1093, her father married her to a French nobleman, Henry of Burgundy,
[3] nephew of Queen Constance, a brother of the Duke of Burgundy, a descendant of 
the kings of France in the male line. Henry was providing military assistance to his 
father-in-law against the Muslims on the Portuguese march.

In the first months of 1096, Henry and his cousin Raymond of Burgundy, husband of 
Queen Urraca, reached an agreement whereby each swore under oath that Raymond 
would give Henry the kingdom of Toledo and one-third of the royal treasury after King 
Alfonso's death and, if that was not possible, Henry would receive the kingdom of 
Galicia, while Henry, in turn, promised to support his cousin Raymond in securing all of 
the king's dominions and two-thirds of the treasury. King Alfonso, however, after 
becoming aware of this covenant, appointed Henry governor of all the land between 
the Minho River and Santarém, governed until then by Raymond, thereby limiting his 
son-in-law's government to Galicia. The two cousins then, instead of being allies, 
became rivals, each vying to obtain the king's favor. Upon the death of King Alfonso, 
Henry and Teresa continued governing these lands south of the Minho, and later, in 
December 1111 under the reign of Queen Urraca, were also governing Zamora.[4]

Struggle with sister[edit]

At first, Teresa and Henry were vassals of her father, but Alfonso VI died in 1109, 
leaving his legitimate daughter, Queen Urraca of Castile as the heir to the throne.[5] 
Henry invaded León, hoping to add it to his lands. When he died in 1112, Teresa was 
left to deal with the military and political situation. She took on the responsibility of 
government, and occupied herself at first mainly with her southern lands, that had only 
recently been reconquered from the Moors as far as the Mondego River. In 
recognizing her victory in defending Coimbra, she was called "Queen" by Pope 
Paschal II and in light of this recognition, she appears in her documents as "Daughter 
of Alphonso and elected by God", explicitly being called queen in an 1117 document, 
leading some to refer to her as the first monarch of Portugal.[6]

In 1116, in an effort to expand her power, Teresa fought her half-sister, Queen 
Urraca. They fought again in 1120, as she continued to pursue a larger share in the 
Leonese inheritance, and allied herself as a widow to the most powerful Galician 
nobleman for that effect. This was the Fernando Pérez, Count of Trava, who had 
rejected his first wife to openly marry her, and served her on her southern border of 
the Mondego. In 1121, she was besieged and captured at Lanhoso, on her northern 
border with Galicia, fighting her sister Urraca. A negotiated peace was coordinated 
with aid from the Archbishops of Santiago de Compostela and Braga. The terms 
included that Teresa could go free only if she held the County of Portugal as a vassal 
of the Kingdom of León as she had received it initially.

Rebellions[edit]

By 1128, the Archbishop of Braga and the main Portuguese feudal nobles had had 
enough of her persistent Galician alliance, which the first feared could favour the 
ecclesiastical pretensions of his new rival the Galician Archbishop of Santiago de 
Compostela, Diego Gelmírez, who had just started to assert his pretensions to an 
alleged discovery of relics of Saint James in his town, as his way to gain power and 
riches over the other cathedrals in the Iberian Peninsula.

The Portuguese lords rebelled, and the Queen was deposed after a short civil war. 
Her son and heir, Afonso, defeated Teresa's troops at the Battle of São Mamede near 
Guimarães and led her, along with the Count of Traba and their children, into exile in 
the kingdom of Galicia, near the Portuguese border, where the Traba had founded the 
monastery of Toxas Altas. Teresa died soon afterwards in 1130. She was succeeded 
by her son, who would eventually lead Portugal into becoming a fully independent 
nation.

Issue[edit]

By Henry, Count of Portugal, Teresa had:
Urraca of Portugal (born c. 1095[7]-after 1169), wife of Bermudo Pérez de Traba, son 
of count Pedro Fróilaz, with issue;[8]
Sancha of Portugal (1097[7]–1163). On 15 July 1129, the abbess of the Monastery of 
San Salvador de Ferreira de Panton acquired from Mendo Núñez and from his brother 
Sancho Núñez and his wife, Infanta Sancha Henriques, some properties in Estriz.[9] 
One of their daughters, María Sánchez, was the abbess of the Monastery of San 
Salvador de Sobrado de Trives. They were also the parents of Velasco, Gil, Fernando, 
and Teresa Sánchez.[10] She married, after being widowed, Fernando Mendes de 
Bragança, without any issue from this second marriage;[11]
Teresa of Portugal (born c. 1098);[7]
Henry of Portugal (1106–1110);
Afonso Henriques, (1109[12]–1185), the first king of Portugal, named after his maternal 
grandfather, perhaps as "a reminder that the blood of the Emperor of all Hispania also 
ran through the veins of this grandson";[13]
Pedro, abbot at the Monastery of Alcobaça where he was buried.[14]

She had two daughters with count Fernando Pérez de Traba:
Teresa Fernández de Traba (d. 1180) wife of count Nuño Pérez de Lara and, when 
widowed, the second wife of King Ferdinand II of León.[15]
Sancha Fernández de Traba (d. after March 1181). Married before 1150 count Álvaro 
Rodríguez de Sarria, with issue. After being widowed, she became the second wife of 
count Pedro Alfonso and, widowed again, married count Gonzalo Ruiz; without any 
issue from these two marriages.[16]

Parents
____ Alfonso VI "The Valiant" (BEF Jun 1040 - 1 Jul 1109)
NUNEZ DE GUZMAN Ximena (ABT 1048 - 1128)

Siblings
DE CASTILE AND LEON Teresa Alfonso (ABT 1080 - 1 Nov 1130)

Marriage To DE BURGUNDY Henry (Henri) (ABT 1069 - 1 Nov 1112)
    m. 1093 

Notes

Parents
OF BURGUNDY Henry (ABT 1035 - 27 Jan 1074)
OF BARCELONA Sibylle (Sybilla) (Sibil) (ABT 1035 - 6 Jul 1074)

Children by DE BURGUNDY Henry (Henri) ABT 1069 - 1 Nov 1112
HENRIQUEZ Urraca (1108 - )
HENRIQUEZ Afonso I "The Conqueror" (25 Jul 1110 - 6 Dec 1185)

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