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Renaud I Count Palantine of Burgundy
(Abt 0986-1057)
Adelais de Normandie
(Abt 1007-Abt 1037)
Guillaume I de Bourgogne
(Abt 1040-1087)
Stephanie de Longwy
(Abt 1035-After 1088)
Raymond of Burgundy, Count of Amous
(Abt 1060-1107)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Urraca of Castile, Queen of Castile and Léon

Raymond of Burgundy, Count of Amous 1 2

  • Born: Abt 1060, <Dijon, (Côte-d'Or)>, Burgundy, (France)
  • Marriage (1): Urraca of Castile, Queen of Castile and Léon about 1087 in Toledo, Castile, Spain
  • Died: 26 Mar 1107, Grajal do Campos, Léon, Spain about age 47

   Other names for Raymond were Raimundo of Burgundy and Raymond de Bourgogne.

  Research Notes:

From Wikipedia - Raymond of Burgundy :

Raymond of Burgundy (Spanish and Portuguese : Raimundo) was the fourth son of William I, Count of Burgundy and was Count of Amous . He came to the Iberian Peninsula for the first time during the period 1086-1087 with Eudes I, Duke of Burgundy . He came for the second time (1090) to marry Urraca of Castile , eventual heiress of Alfonso VI of Castile , King of León and Castile .
He came with his cousin Henry of Burgundy , who married the other daughter of Alfonso VI, Teresa of León (or Portugal ). By his marriage Raymond received the County of Galicia , the County of Portugal and the County of Coimbra . The last two were later offered to Henry of Burgundy, father of the first Portuguese King Afonso I Henriques of Portugal .

He was succeeded by his son:
Alfonso VII of Castile and Leon (1104/1105-1157)

  Birth Notes:

FamilySearch has b. abt 1065

  Death Notes:

Wikipedia has d. September 1107. FamilySearch has d. 24 Mar 1107.


Raymond married Urraca of Castile, Queen of Castile and Léon, daughter of Alfonso VI "the Brave" of Castile, King of Castile and Leon and Constance of Burgundy, about 1087 in Toledo, Castile, Spain. (Urraca of Castile, Queen of Castile and Léon was born about 1082 in <Burgos, Castile>, Spain and died on 8 Mar 1126 in Saldana, Palencia, Spain.)


Sources


1 Weis, Frederick Lewis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr; William R. Beall and Kaleen E. Beall, eds, <i>Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700</i> (8th ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2008.), Line 132-25, 113-24 (Urraca I).

2 <i>Wikipedia.org</i>, Raymond of Burgundy.


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