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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.
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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]
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 .
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.
She edited the children's magazine, El Peneca, for almost 40 years. [1] Her first play was the comedy, La Familia Busquillas (1916), followed in 1919 by El voto femenino. She produced the drama, La Marcha Funebre, in the same year. Her second novel was titled Via Crucis Sentimental. [2] She was the sister of writer Blanca Santa Cruz Ossa. [3]
Elvira, Mistress of the Dark famously wants to be remembered by two simple words.But when all is said and done, Cassandra Peterson only asks that people remember her buxom alter ego by three ...
Sancha was a daughter of Alfonso V of León by his first wife, Elvira Menéndez. [2] She became a secular abbess of the Monastery of San Pelayo. [3] In 1029, a political marriage was arranged between her and count García Sánchez of Castile. [4] However, having traveled to León for the marriage, García was assassinated by a group of ...