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Birth:           994 of Leon
Death:          7 Aug 1028 Viseu
Cause of Death: slain
Burial:         St. Isidore de Leon

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso_V_of_Le%C3%B3n
Alfonso V (994 – 7 August 1028), called the Noble, was King of León from 999 to 
1028. Enough is known of him to justify the belief that he had some of the qualities of 
a soldier and a statesman.[1] Like other kings of León, he used the title emperor to 
assert his standing among the Christian rulers of Spain.[2] He succeeded his father, 
Bermudo II, in 999.[3] His mother Elvira García and count Menendo González, who 
raised him in Galicia,[4] acted as his co-regents. Upon the count's death in 1008, 
Alfonso ruled on his own.[5]

Alfonso began the work of reorganizing the Christian kingdom of the northwest of the 
Iberian Peninsula after a most disastrous period of civil war and Arab inroads.[1]

His name and that of his wife are associated with the grant of the first franchises of 
León (1017).[6] On Wednesday, 7 August 1028, Alfonso V was killed by an arrow 
while besieging the Muslim town of Viseu.[7][8] King Alfonso was buried next to his 
first wife Elvira, according to his wishes, at the Church of Saint John the Baptist and 
San Pelayo which later changed its name to the Basilica of San Isidoro when the latter 
saint's remains were transferred from Seville.[9] The following epitaph was carved on 
his tomb:


H. IACET ADEFONSUS QUI POPVLATIT LEGIONEM...ET DEDIT BONOS FOROS ET 
FECIT / ECCLESIAM HANC LVTO ET LATERE. HABVIT PRAELIA CUM / 
SARRACENIS, ET INTERFECTUS, EST SAGITTA APUD VISEUM / PORTUGAL FUIT 
FILIUS VEREMUNDI ORDONII / OBIIT ERA M SEXAGESIMA QUINTA III NAS M.[10]

Family[edit]

Alfonso first married Elvira Menéndez in 1013, daughter of his tutor Menendo González 
at whose house he was raised as a child, with whom he had two children.[11]
Sancha of León, married Ferdinand I of León and Castile
Bermudo III of León (c.?1015–1037)

After Elvira's death on 2 December 1022,[12] Alfonso married Urraca Garcés, sister of 
King Sancho III of Pamplona.[13] Before this marriage took place, the king of 
Pamplona had sent Ponce, abbot at the Monastery of San Pedro de Tavèrnoles, later 
bishop of Oviedo, and a nobleman named Garcia, to intercede before Abbot Oliba, 
bishop of Vic, in favor of the marriage of his sister Urraca to the king of León, despite 
the impediments of consanguinity. Although Bishop Oliba did not authorize the 
marriage, describing it as incesti connubii in a letter dated 11 May 1023,[14] the royal 
wedding was celebrated between the date of the bishop's letter and 13 November 
1023 when Alfonso V and his new wife, who confirms as Urraka regina, appear 
together for the first time in a charter in the Cathedral of León.[12][15]

Urraca and her mother Jimena Fernández made a donation on 26 September 1028 to 
the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela confirming as Scemena regina simulque et 
filia mea Urraca Regina (...) genitoris nostri Fredenandus Ueremudiz et domna Geloria, 
and a few years later, King Bermudo III on 6 August 1031 referred to his step-mother 
as Urraca regina Garseani regis filia.

Alfonso and Urraca had one daughter, who was named Jimena as attested in a charter 
dated 22 December 1036 in a donation made by Muniadona and her son Fernando 
Gundemáriz, son of Gundemaro Pinióliz, when she confirms as Jimena, daughter of 
King Alfonso.[16]

Parents
____ Vermudo (Bermudo) II "the Gouty" (ABT  953 - Sep  999)
GARCIA OF CASTILE Elvira (ABT  978 - 1017)

Siblings
____ Alfonso V ( 994 - 7 Aug 1028)

Marriage To MENENDEZ OF GALICIA Elvira (ABT  996 - 2 Dec 1022)
    m. Jan 1015 

Notes

Parents
GONZALEZ Menendo (ABT  970 - Oct 1008)
____ Totadomna (Toda) (ABT  970 - 1025)

Children by MENENDEZ OF GALICIA Elvira ABT  996 - 2 Dec 1022
OF LEON Sancha (ABT 1016 - 27 Nov 1067)

Marriage To GARCES Urraca (ABT  990 - )
    m.  

Notes

Parents
SANCHEZ Garcia IV (ABT  964 - BEF 8 Dec  999)
FERNANDEZ Ximena (Jimena) (Chimene) (ABT  960 - )

Children by GARCES Urraca ABT  990 - 
DE LEON Jimina (Ximena) (ABT 1015 - )

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