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Birth:          ABT 1159 of Barcelona
Death:          1 Sep 1198 Coimbra, Portugal
Burial:         Ingregade Santa Cruz, Coimbra, Portugal

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dulce_of_Aragon
Dulce of Aragon[a][b][3] (or of Barcelona;[4] European Portuguese: ['du?s(?) d? 
ä??'g?~?w~, 'du?s(?) d(?) bä?s(?)'l?~(?)n?]; 1160 – 1 September 1198) was Queen 
consort to King Sancho I of Portugal. As the eldest daughter of Ramon Berenguer IV, 
Count of Barcelona and his wife, Queen Petronila of Aragon, she was the sister of the 
future King Alfonso II of Aragon.

Her bethrothal to infante Sancho, son of Afonso Henriques, the first king of Portugal, 
was celebrated when she was eleven years old and the marriage in 1174.[5][4] Not 
much is known about her life prior to her arrival in Portugal or of the wedding tokens 
she received upon her marriage.[6]

"A beautiful and excellent lady, quiet and modest, her personality coinciding with her 
name,"[c] Dulce was used as a commodity to seal an alliance which aimed to 
"strengthen Portugal and to contain the expansionism of Castile and León" and she 
played the role that was expected of her as a wife and as the mother of numerous 
children".[2][8] At the same time, the marriage compensated for the broken 
engagement of her husband's sister, Infanta Mafalda with her brother, the future king 
Alfonso II of Aragon.[2] With the death of King Afonso Henriques in 1185, her 
husband ascended the throne and she became Queen consort of Portugal. In his first 
will, executed in 1188, her husband gave her the income from Alenquer, of the lands 
along the banks of the Vouga River, of Santa Maria da Feira and of Oporto.[6]

Dulce did not live long after the birth of her last two daughters, Branca and 
Berengaria, probably twins, and died in 1198 probably succumbing to the plague and 
weakened by the successive childbirths. She was buried in the Monastery of Santa 
Cruz in Coimbra.[9]
Issue[edit]

Eleven children were born from her marriage to King Sancho, nine of whom reached 
adulthood:
Theresa (1175/1176 – 18 June 1250),[2][6] she became the wife of King Alfonso IX of 
León and was beatified in 1705;
Sancha (1180 – 13 March 1229),[10] founded the Monastery of Celas near Coimbra 
where she lived until her death. Her sister Theresa arranged for her burial at the 
Monastery of Lorvão. She was beatified by Pope Clement XI in 1705, the same year as 
Theresa;[11]
Constanza (May 1182 – 3 August 1202).She must have died before 1186 since her 
name is not registered in any of the documents of the chancellery of Sancho I which 
begins in that year";[6] [d]
Afonso (23 April 1186[12] – 25 March 1223), succeeded his father as the third king of 
Portugal;
Raymond (1187/88 – 9 March bef. 1188/89), who died in infancy;[12][e]
Peter (23 February 1187[12] – 2 June 1258), spouse of Aurembiaix, countess of Urgell;
Ferdinand (24 March 1188[12] – 27 July 1233), count through his marriage to Joan, 
Countess of Flanders;
Henry (aft. March 1189 – 8 Dec aft. 1189), who died during infancy;[12][f]
Mafalda (1195/1196[12] – 1 May 1256), the wife of Henry I of Castile, was beatified in 
1793;
Branca (1198 – 17 November 1240), probably the twin sister of Berengaria,[12] was 
raised in the court with her father and his mistress "a Ribeirinha" and, when she was 
eight or ten years old, was sent to live with her sisters at the Monastery of Lorvão. 
She was a nun at a convent in Guadalajara and was buried at the same monastery as 
her mother;[13]
Berengaria (1198 – 27 March 1221), probably the twin sister of Branca,[12] married 
Valdemar II of Denmark in 1214.[14]

Parents
____ Raymond (Ramon) Berenguer IV (1113 - 6 Aug 1162)
OF ARAGON Petronilla (Petronel) I (1136 - 15 Oct 1173)

Siblings
____ Alfonso II "The Chaste" (Mar 1157 - 25 Apr 1196)
____ Dulce (Aldonza) (ABT 1159 - 1 Sep 1198)

Marriage To AFFONSEZ Sancho I "The Popular" (11 Nov 1154 - 26 Mar 1212)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
HENRIQUEZ Afonso I "The Conqueror" (25 Jul 1110 - 6 Dec 1185)
OF SAVOY Matilde (Maud) (1125 - 4 Nov 1157)

Children by AFFONSEZ Sancho I "The Popular" 11 Nov 1154 - 26 Mar 1212
____ Affonso II "the Fat" (23 Apr 1185 - 25 Mar 1223)

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