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Agnes of Aquitaine, Queen of León and Castile

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Several alternative accounts are given for the death of Agnes. Some sources place it in 1078, corresponding to her disappearance from the records. A surviving obituary notice has been interpreted as placing her death in 1097. This record, though, simply refers to Queen Agnes, and probably was
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reference to her half-sister Agnes, Queen of Navarre, who died in that year. Were the report of her marriage Elias accurate, it would require her survival at least to that date.
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and his second wife Matilda, whose origins are uncertain. She has been confused with a half-sister of the same name who was also an Iberian queen,
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In 1069, Agnes married Alfonso VI, king of León. His father divided the kingdom into three realms upon his death. Alfonso and his brother
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They last appear together in May 1077, and then Alfonso appears alone. This suggests that Agnes had died, although
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A burial monument to Agnes is among those in the royal monastery of
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and an Iberian queen in the 11th-century. She was first queen of
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reports that in 1109 Alfonso's 'relict' Agnes remarried to
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Contemporary records show Agnes to have been daughter of
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Queen consort of León
Queen consort of Castile
Alfonso VI of León and Castile
House
House of Poitiers
William VIII, Duke of Aquitaine
Spanish
House of Poitou
León
Castile
Alfonso VI
William VIII, Duke of Aquitaine
Agnes
Peter I of Aragon and Navarre
Sancho
García
Kingdom of Galicia
Emperor of all Spain
Orderic Vitalis
Elias I of Maine
consanguinity
Sahagún
Constance of Burgundy
Sancha of León
Queen consort of León
Alberta
Alberta
Queen consort of León
Castile

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