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Birth:          1205 Toledo, Spain
Death:          1262 Alcocer, Spain
Burial:         Monastery of the Poor Clares, San Miguel del Monte, Spain

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayor_Guill%C3%A9n_de_Guzm%C3%A1n
Mayor Guillén de Guzmán (1205 – Alcocer, 1262), a member of one of the most 
aristocratic families in the court of King Ferdinand III of Castile, her parents were 
Guillén Pérez de Guzmán and his wife María González Girón, daughter of Gonzalo 
Rodríguez Girón and his first wife Sancha Rodríguez,[1] and sister of Pedro 
Rodríguez de Guzmán, Castile's first adelantado and father of Alonso Pérez de 
Guzmán.
Biographical sketch[edit]

Her name is registered in contemporary chronicles and documents for being the lover 
of prince Alfonso de Castilla, future king Alfonso X of Castile, son of Ferdinand III of 
Castile and Beatriz de Suabia. In 1255, Alfonso gave her lands in La Alcarria which 
included Cifuentes, Viana de Mondéjar, Palazuelos, Salmerón, Vadesliras and Alcocer. 
With the collaboration of King Alfonso, she founded the Monastery of Santa Clara de 
Alcocer in an unpopulated village called San Miguel del Monte within the jurisdiction 
of Alcocer. The foundational charter dated September 22, 1260 was confirmed by her 
brothers Pedro and Nuño Rodríguez de Guzmán.[2]

Issue[edit]

From her relationship with Infante Alfonso she had one daughter:
Beatrice (1242–1303), the sole beneficiary of her mother's estates, married Afonso III 
of Portugal and was the mother of Denis I of Portugal.[3] On December 31, 1244, 
Alfonso with the consent of his father, donated the village of Elche to his daughter 
Beatrice, most probably born around that date, which would seem to indicate that the 
relationship was stable and accepted.[4]

Death and burial[edit]

She died in early 1262 and was buried in the monastery of the Poor Clares that she 
had founded at San Miguel del Monte. Years later, on July 24, 1276, King Alfonso 
executed an agreement with Juan González who made a walnut-wood sepulchre with a 
bas-relief image of Mayor. The parchment document was auctioned at Christie's in 
2009.[5][6] The convent, as well as her sepulcher were moved to Alcocer years later. 
Her body, which remained intact until the beginning of the 21st-century, disappeared 
in 1936 along with a polychromed sculpture considered among the best funerary art 
from the Middle Ages in Guadalajara.[3][7]

Parents
PEREZ DE GUZMAN Guillen (ABT 1180 - 1233)
GIRON Maria Gonzalez (ABT 1185 - )

Siblings
GUZMAN-VILLENA Maria Mayor Guillen (1205 - 1262)

Marriage To ____ Alfonso X "El Sabio" (23 Nov 1221 - 4 Apr 1284)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
ALFONSEZ Fernando III "The Saint" (5 Aug 1201 - 30 May 1252)
VON HOHENSTAUFEN Elizabeth (1205 - 5 Nov 1235)

Children by ____ Alfonso X "El Sabio" 23 Nov 1221 - 4 Apr 1284
____ Beatrix (1242 - 27 Oct 1303)

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