Urraca Henriques

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Urraca Henriques depicted in a goth manuscript from the 13th century

Urraca Henriques (born in

Afonso Henriques, the first king of Portugal.[1]

She married

medieval Galicia, around 1122. He was the son of Pedro Froilaz de Trava and his first wife Urraca Froilaz.[2][3]

In 1148, her husband commissioned the

nuns to a convent called Santa Maria de Nogueirosa.[4]

Around 1160, Bermudo became a monk at the Monestry of Santa Maria de Sobrado dos Monges, a monastery founded by his ancestors, where he died in 1168 at the age of 80.[4][5]

Urraca also retired, probably in the same year as her husband, to the monastery in Nogueirosa where she died in 1173 and was buried in the church of her convent.[6]

Offspring

The children of the Infanta Urraca and Bermudo Peres de Trava were:[7][8]

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