Alfonso VIII
       King of Castile 1158-1214 
       Born 11 November 1155 
       Died 6 October 1214 Burgos 
       Buried Las Huelgas 
       Married September 1177 Burgos 
       Eleanor of England, daughter of Henry II, King of England 
       1154-1189 and Eleanor de Poitou, Duchess of Aquitaine 
       Born 13 October 1162 Domfront, Normandy 
       Died 31 October 1214 Burgos 
                 Children, Generation I 

       Generation I 
            1  Berengaria of Castile 
               Born before  August 1180 Burgos 
               Died 8 November 1246 Las Huelgas near Burgos 
               Married 1198 Divorced 1209 
               Alfonso IX, King of Leon 1188-1230, son of Fernando II, 
               King of Leon and Urraca of Portugal 
               Born 1171 
               Died 24 September 1230 

            2  Blanche of Castile 
               Regent of France 1226-1236 
               Born before 4 March 1188 Palencia 
               Died 27 November 1252 Paris 
               Married 23 May 1200 Pont-Audemer, Normandy 
               Louis VIII, King of France 1223-1226, son of Philippe II 
               August, King of France 1180-1223 and Isabelle of Flanders, 
               Comtesse d'Artois 
               Born 5 September 1187 Paris 
               Died 8 November 1226 Montpensier 

            3  Fernando of Castile 
               Born 9 November 1189
               Died 14 October 1211 

            4  Urraca of Castile 
               Died 3 November 1220 
               Married 1206 
               Alfonso II "the Fat", King of Portugal 1212-1223, son of 
               Sancho I "the City builder", King of Portugal 1185-1212 and 
               Dulcia of Barcelona 
               Born 23 April 1185 
               Died 25 March 1223 Santarem 
               Buried Alcobaca 

            5  Eleonore of Castile 
               Married 6 February 1221 (Div.1229) 
               Jaime I "the Conqueror", King of Aragon 1213-1276, son of 
               Pedro II, King of Arag¢n 1196-1213 and Marie de 
               Montpellier, Dame de Montpellier, Dame de Muret 
               Born 13 February 1208 Montpellier 
               Died 25 July 1276 Xativa 
               Buried Notre Dame de Poblet 
                         S.P. 

            6  Enrique I 
               King of Castile 1214-1217 
               Born 14 April 1204 
               Died 6 June 1217 

                                    Source Listing 
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           Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der 
           Europaeischen Staaten, 4 volumes, 
           Marburg, 1953, 1975. 
                           by W. K. Prinz von Isenburg 

           Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels 
           Fuerstliche Haeuser 

           From Alfonso VII to Alfonso X, 1989 
                                  by Szabolcs de Vajay