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Alfonso VI de Castilla y León, King of León, Castile and Navarre, b. ca. 1038, Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain  , d. 30 Jun 1109, Toledo, Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain (Age ~ 71 years) |
- "Alfonso VI's penultimate marriage was to Isabel and 'the cause of controversy during centuries has been whether this Isabel was the same person as Zaida or a different individual'. [Salazar y Acha, Jaime de, "Contribución al reinado de Alfonso VI de Castilla: algunas aclaraciones sobre su política matrimonial". Anales de la Real Academia Matritense de Heráldica y Genealogía (in Spanish) (Madrid: Real Academia Matritense de Heráldica y Genealogía. II: 301?336, 1993), p. 227. ISSN 1133-1240]
Both appear together for the first time on 14 May 1100 although the diploma is considered suspicious, and the second time in that same year at an unspecified date. [Gambra, Andrés, Alfonso VI. Cancillería, curia e imperio (in Spanish). Vol. I. Estudio. (León: Centro de Estudios e Investigación; San Isidoro: Caja España y el Archivo Histórico Diocesano de León, 1997) p. 473. ISBN 8487667287.]
Isabel's last mention in royal diplomas was on 8 and 14 May 1107 and she probably died in the middle of that year.[Gambra, p. 474.] She is, according to Salazar y Acha, Zaida, who after her baptism was called Isabel. If not identical to Zaida, her origin is uncertain. Bishop Pelagius of Oviedo does not refer to her origin. Lucas de Tuy in the 13th century, based on the epitaph of Isabel, makes her daughter of King Louis of France, who at that time would have to be Louis VI although this seems to be chronologically impossible. Reilly considers that she was probably of Burgundian origin. [Reilly, Bernard F., The Contest of Christian and Muslim Spain: 1031-1157. (Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1992) pp. 322-3] although this does not appear in the documentation."
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- "Her existence is questionable and it is possible that she was in fact the same person as Isabel née Zaïda, shown below as King Alfonso's fifth wife. The question of the separate existence of King Alfonso VI's fourth wife would be resolved if we knew there had been two different memorials to 'Queen Elisabeth' in the Royal Pantheon, but it appears that a record of these memorials no longer exists." [2]
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