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A medieval depiction of Elvira. Elvira (1038 or 1039 – 15 November 1101) [citation needed] was a Leonese infanta and the Lady of Toro, Zamora, [1] the daughter of Ferdinand I of León and Castile [2] and Sancha of León, [3] [4] and granddaughter-namesake of Elvira Menéndez, and also an aunt of Elvira of Castile, Queen of Sicily.
Toro, the city of Sancho's sister Elvira, fell easily. But in a siege of Urraca's better-defended city of Zamora, King Sancho was stalled, and was then mysteriously assassinated on 7 October 1072. It was widely suspected that the assassination was a result of a pact between Alfonso and Urraca.
Elvira and Bermudo II had three children: Alfonso V;; Sancha Bermúdez, who lived in Galicia; [10] Teresa Bermúdez (died on April 25, 1039). [10] In 1017, she confirmed her mother's grant to Santiago de Compostela, and she and her sister Sancha were involved in a lawsuit over the monastery of Santa Eulalia de Fingoy the same year. [11]
Bermudo Ovéquiz was the first-born son of Oveco Bermúdez and his wife Elvira Suárez. [1] His paternal grandparents were Bermudo Vela —a descendant of Count Bermudo Núñez and Elvira Pinióliz. His mother was granddaughter of rebel Rodrigo Romániz, nephew of Count Suero Gundemáriz , [ 2 ] [ a ] and she also descended from Osorio ...
Elvira returned to Castile. Her son became the monarch of Tripoli upon the death of Raymond in 1105, but Elvira is not mentioned as present in Tripoli. In Castile, before 1117, she married Count Fernando Fernández de Carrión , having three additional children: Diego, García and Teresa Fernández, who was a wife of Count Osorio Martínez .
Primitive coat of arms of the House of Lara. The House of Lara (Spanish: Casa de Lara) is a noble family from the medieval Kingdom of Castile.Two of its branches, one of the Dukes of Nájera and one of the Marquises of Aguilar de Campoo were considered Grandees of Spain.
Elvira's likely descent from the Muslim rulers of Al-Andalus exemplifies a "pattern of cultural association" between the queens of Sicily and the Islamic world. She may have even influenced the extensive cultivation of Islamic art during her husband's reign. [2] There is exceptionally little information about Queen Elvira. [1]
The Synod of Elvira (Latin: Concilium Eliberritanum, Spanish: Concilio de Elvira) was an ecclesiastical synod held at Elvira in the Roman province of Hispania Baetica, now Granada in southern Spain. [1] Its date has not been exactly determined but is believed to be in the first quarter of the fourth century, approximately 305–6.