Elvira from Toro

Elvira von Toro , also called Elvira von León or Elvira Fernández , († November 1099 ) was a Spanish Infanta from the house of Jiménez in the 11th century.

Life

Elvira von Toro depicted in a miniature from the 12th century. Archivo de la Catedral de Santiago, Tumbo A.

Elvira was one of five children of King Ferdinand I of León-Castile and the Sancha of León . According to the Chronicon Regum Legionensium she was the fifth, according to the Historia Silense the third child. Her siblings were Urraca , Sancho II , Alfons VI. and García .

Shortly before his death in 1065, Ferdinand I agreed to divide his dominion among his children. While the sons were given kingdoms, Urraca received the city of Zamora and Elvira the city of Toro as their own dominions. In a donation to the diocese of Santiago de Compostela on December 10, 1068, Elvira calls himself "Queen" (Geluira regina) . Apparently, like her sister, she claimed royal dignity for herself. In the struggle of their brothers for the overall paternal inheritance, from which Alfons VI. Was victorious in 1073, it played no significant role.

On March 14, 1099 she appears for the last time as a documentary witness in a donation from her brother to the Abbey of San Pedro von Eslonza. On November 13, 1099, she made final dispositions on her deathbed, including a donation to the diocese of Santiago de Compostela. A few days later she must have died; She was buried in the Abbey of San Isidoro in León .

literature

Bernard F. Reilly: The Kingdom of León-Castilla under King Alfonso VI 1065-1109. Princeton University Press, 1988 ( online ).

Individual evidence

↑ Chronicon Regum Legionensium , ed. by Simon Barton and Richard Fletcher, in: The World of El Cid: Chronicles of the Spanish Reconquest. Manchester University Press, 2000, p. 81. Historia Silense , ed. by Simon Barton and Richard Fletcher, in: The World of El Cid: Chronicles of the Spanish Reconquest. Manchester University Press, 2000, §8, p. 30 and §81, p. 45.
↑ Historia de la Santa Iglesia de Santiago de Compostela II, ed. by Antonio López Ferreiro (1899), Apéndices, No. 98, pp. 248–249.
↑ Cartulario del Monasterio de Eslonza: Primera Patre, ed. by Vicente Vignau Ballester (1885), No. 6, pp. 10-13.
↑ Historia de la Santa Iglesia de Santiago de Compostela III, ed. by Antonio López Ferreiro (1900), Apéndices, No. 15, pp. 50–51. The deed of Elvira's last will is dated November 13th, 1100, but it is obviously an incorrect dating of the notary, since Alfonso VI. the last decree of his sister regarding the diocese of Santiago de Compostela had already been confirmed on January 16, 1100. Ibid. Apéndices, No. 14, pp. 48-49. See Reilly (1988), §13, p. 274. The year of death 1099 is confirmed in the Annales Toledanos I , ed. by Enríque Flórez, in: España Sagrada. Vol. 23 (1767), p. 385.

personal data
SURNAME	Elvira from Toro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Doña Elvira from Toro; Elvira of León; Elvira Fernández
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Infanta of Castile, mistress of Toro
DATE OF BIRTH	11th century
DATE OF DEATH	November 1099

[1] Chronicon Regum Legionensium , ed. by Simon Barton and Richard Fletcher, in: The World of El Cid: Chronicles of the Spanish Reconquest. Manchester University Press, 2000, p. 81. Historia Silense , ed. by Simon Barton and Richard Fletcher, in: The World of El Cid: Chronicles of the Spanish Reconquest. Manchester University Press, 2000, §8, p. 30 and §81, p. 45.

[2] Historia de la Santa Iglesia de Santiago de Compostela II, ed. by Antonio López Ferreiro (1899), Apéndices, No. 98, pp. 248–249.

[3] Cartulario del Monasterio de Eslonza: Primera Patre, ed. by Vicente Vignau Ballester (1885), No. 6, pp. 10-13.

[4] Historia de la Santa Iglesia de Santiago de Compostela III, ed. by Antonio López Ferreiro (1900), Apéndices, No. 15, pp. 50–51. The deed of Elvira's last will is dated November 13th, 1100, but it is obviously an incorrect dating of the notary, since Alfonso VI. the last decree of his sister regarding the diocese of Santiago de Compostela had already been confirmed on January 16, 1100. Ibid. Apéndices, No. 14, pp. 48-49. See Reilly (1988), §13, p. 274. The year of death 1099 is confirmed in the Annales Toledanos I , ed. by Enríque Flórez, in: España Sagrada. Vol. 23 (1767), p. 385.