Constance of Castile

For other people named Constance of Castile, see Constance of Castile (disambiguation).

Constance of Castile

Queen consort of France
Tenure	1154–1160

Born	c 1140
Died	4 October 1160
Burial	Basilica of St Denis
Spouse	Louis VII of France
Issue	Margaret, Queen of Hungary Alys, Countess of the Vexin
House	House of Burgundy
Father	Alfonso VII of León and Castile
Mother	Berenguela of Barcelona
Religion	Roman Catholicism

Constance of Castile (c 1140 - 4 October 1160) was Queen of France as the second wife of Louis VII, who married her following the annulment of his marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine.^[1] She was a daughter of Alfonso VII of León and Berengaria of Barcelona,^[2] but her year of birth is not certainly known.

The official reason for her husband's divorce from Eleanor of Aquitaine had been that he was too close a relative of Eleanor for the marriage to be legal by Church standards; however, he was even more closely related to Constance.

Constance died giving birth to her second child. Desperate for a son, her husband remarried a mere five weeks after her death.

Constance was buried in the Basilica of Saint-Denis, France.

Children

Constance bore her husband two children:

Margaret, 1157–1197, who married first Henry the Young King of England, and then Béla III of Hungary
Alys, 1160–1220, who married William IV of Ponthieu

Ancestry

Ancestors of Constance of Castile

16. Reginald I, Count of Burgundy

8. William I, Count of Burgundy

17. Alice of Normandy

4. Raymond of Burgundy

9. Stephanie

2. Alfonso VII of León and Castile

20. Ferdinand I of León and Castile

10. Alfonso VI of León and Castile

21. Sancha of León

5. Urraca of León and Castile

22. Robert I, Duke of Burgundy

11. Constance of Burgundy

23. Hélie of Sémur

1. Constance of Castile

24. Ramon Berenguer I, Count of Barcelona

12. Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona

25. Almodis de La Marche

6. Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona

26. Robert Guiscard, Duke of Apulia

13. Maud of Apulia

27. Sikelgaita of Salerno

3. Berengaria of Barcelona

28. Berenguer II, Viscount of Rodés

14. Gilbert I, Count of Gévaudan

29. Adela, Viscountess of Carlat

7. Douce I, Countess of Provence

30. Geoffrey I, Count of Provence

15. Gerberga, Countess of Provence

31. Stephanie-Douce de Marseille

References

↑ Constance Bouchard, Those of My Blood: Creating Noble Families in Medieval Francia, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001), 126.
↑ Jim Bradbury, The Capetians, (MPG Books Ltd, 2007), 165.

French royalty
Preceded by Eleanor of Aquitaine	Queen of France 1154–1160	Succeeded by Adele of Champagne

Queens and Empresses of France

Adelaide of Aquitaine Rozala of Italy Bertha of Burgundy Constance of Arles Matilda of Frisia Anne of Kiev Bertha of Holland Bertrade de Montfort Adelaide of Maurienne Eleanor of Aquitaine Constance of Castile Adèle of Champagne Isabella of Hainault Ingeborg of Denmark Agnes of Merania Blanche of Castile Margaret of Provence Isabella of Aragon Maria of Brabant Joan I of Navarre Margaret of Burgundy Clementia of Hungary Joan II of Burgundy Blanche of Burgundy Marie of Luxembourg Jeanne d'Évreux Joan the Lame Blanche of Navarre Joan I of Auvergne Joanna of Bourbon Isabeau of Bavaria Marie of Anjou Charlotte of Savoy Anne of Brittany Joan of France Mary Tudor Claude of France Eleanor of Austria Catherine de' Medici Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots Elisabeth of Austria Louise of Lorraine Margaret of Valois Marie de' Medici Anne of Austria Maria Theresa of Spain Marie Leszczyńska Marie Antoinette of Austria Marie Joséphine of Savoy* Joséphine de Beauharnais Marie Louise of Austria Marie Thérèse of France* Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily Eugénie de Montijo

*disputed

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