Constance of Burgundy

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Constance of Burgundy ( Spanish Constanza de Borgoña ; † 1093 ) was through her second marriage to Alfonso VI. († 1109) a Queen of León - Castile . She was a daughter of Duke Robert I of Burgundy and Helie von Semur and thus a member of the House of Burgundy , a branch of the Capetian dynasty .

In her first marriage, Konstanze was married to Count Hugo II of Chalon-sur-Saône , with whom she had no children. Her husband probably accompanied her nephew, Duke Hugo I of Burgundy , on his Spanish campaign in 1078 and died in the process. The Duke apparently took the opportunity to meet his widowed aunt with King Alfonso VI. from León-Castile , who had just separated from his first wife. The Spanish king had already made a religious and political rapprochement with the monastery association of the Cluny Abbey and tried to consolidate this relationship by marrying Konstanze. The abbot Hugo von Cluny was her maternal uncle. The wedding took place after Constance's arrival in León at the turn of the year 1079/80 and their daughter Urraca was born in late 1080 at the earliest , the first child of King Alfonso VI.

From then on, Konstanze worked as a mediator between León and Cluny as well as with her family in Burgundy. In 1087 her second nephew, Duke Odo I , moved to Spain to fight the Moors . His entourage included his brother-in-law, Raimund von Burgund , who came from the family of the Burgundian ex-counts and was married to the Infanta Urraca that same year. Konstanze died between July 25th and October 25th 1093. On the first mentioned date it appeared for the last time in a document, while on the latter date Alfons VI. asked the monks of Sahagún for prayers for the salvation of the royal couple's souls, whereby Konstanze no longer appeared here as a documented petitioner because she was probably already dead. She was buried in the royal abbey of Santos Facundo y Primitivo (later San Benito) in Sahagún.

literature

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

Remarks

  1. ↑ Ex Chronico Trenorciensi, ed. by Léopold Delisle, in: Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France , Vol. 11 (1876), p. 112.
  2. ↑ See Reilly (1988), §6, pp. 107-109.
  3. ↑ See Reilly (1988), §12, pp. 240-241.
  4. ↑ Las crónicas anónimas de Sahagún, ed. by Julio Puyol y Alonso, in: Boletín de la Real Academia de la Historia. Vol. 76 (1920), §7, p. 116.
personal data
SURNAME Constance of Burgundy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Constanza de Borgoña
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Countess of Chalon-sur-Saône, Queen of León-Castile
DATE OF BIRTH 11th century
DATE OF DEATH between July 25, 1093 and October 25, 1093