Raymond of Burgundy
| Raymond of Burgundy | |
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| Father | William I, Count of Burgundy |
| Mother | Stephanie |
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Raymond of Burgundy (c. 1070 – 24 May 1107) was the ruler of
Alfonso VII
.
Background
When Raymond and his cousin,
León. There Odo most likely arranged Raymond's marriage to Alfonso's heiress, Urraca. All surviving charters which seem to place Raymond in Spain before 1087 are either mis-dated or interpolated.[1]
By his marriage Raymond received as dowry the government of the
Bracara Augusta (nowadays Braga). During his government he was titled Count, Dominus, Prince, Emperor and Consul of Galicia or of the Galicians, exercising near absolute power in his domains ("in urbe Gallecia regnante Comite Raymundus"): "serenissimus totius Gallecie comes", "totius Gallecie Senior et Dominus", "totius Gallecie Consul", "totius Gallecie Princeps", "totius Gallecie Imperator".[3]
He was father of Alfonso VII of León and Castile (1104/1105–1157), already crowned king of Galicia in 1111, while his brother later became Pope Callixtus II.
Notes
- ^ Reilly 1989, pp. 194–95.
- ^ Serrano 1907, p. xliv.
- ^ Barón Faraldo 2011.
Sources
- Barón Faraldo, Andrés (2011). "Magnates y nobiles en la curia del conde Raimundo de Borgoña, Totius Gallecie Princeps (c. 1091–1107)" (PDF). Estudios Mindonienses. 27: 531–74. Retrieved 4 November 2012.
- David, Pierre (1948). "La pacte succesoral entre Raymond de Galice et Henri de Portugal". Bulletin Hispanique. 50 (3): 275–90. .
- Fletcher, Richard A. (1984). Saint James's Catapult: The Life and Times of Diego Gelmírez of Santiago de Compostela. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Martínez Díez, Gonzalo (2003). Alfonso VI: señor del Cid, conquistador de Toledo. Madrid: Temas de Hoy.
- Reilly, Bernard F. (1968). "Santiago and Saint Denis: The French Presence in Eleventh-Century Spain". The Catholic Historical Review. 54 (3): 467–83.
- Reilly, Bernard F. (1982). The Kingdom of León-Castilla under Queen Urraca, 1109–1126. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
- Reilly, Bernard F. (1989). The Kingdom of León-Castilla under King Alfonso VI, 1065–1109. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
- Reilly, Bernard F. (1998). The Kingdom of León-Castilla Under King Alfonso VII, 1126–1157. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
- Serrano, Luciano (1907). Fuentes para la historia de Castilla por los padres benedictinos de Silos, Tomo II: Cartulario del Infantado de Covarrubias.
- Slaughter, John E. (1983). "Sobre la fecha de la muerte del conde Raimundo de Galicia". Anuario de Estudios Medievales. 13: 93–114.
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