Constance of Burgundy

  General Notes:

Born: 1046
Marriage: Alfonso VI Ferdinandez on 8 May 1081
Died: 1093 at age 47
General Notes:
"At about the same time, the count also lost a most influential friend at court when Queen Constance, his aunt, died. The queen had confirmed her husband's charter of July 25, 1093, but that is her last known appearance in any document. When the king next becomes visible he is making two donations to the monastery of Sahagún on October 25, 1093. The lists of those who confirm indicate a major curia in process but Constance does not appear in either list. Both donations request prayers for the souls of both the king and queen, but in neither of them is the queen associated with Alfonso in the act of giving even though in one of them what was being conceded was clearly Constance's property. In another great gathering at Sahagún, which was the occasion of his next known diploma on November 22, 1093, the king again endowed that monastery with property of the queen, this time of a palace she had had constructed near that monastery. These documents are the best indications that survive as to the date of Constance's death. It is at least probable that the charters of October 25 followed hard on her obsequies. She was buried at Sahagún alongside Queen Inés whom she had succeeded. However much the king might have been personally attached to his late consort, politically her death would have been regarded as providential. Alfonso, still but a vigorous fifty-six, was now free to remarry in search of more sons and legitimate ones. In addition to that great advantage, he was now also better able to distance his ambitious son-in-law somewhat more from the seat of power."
Constance married Alfonso VI Ferdinandez, son of Fernando I el Grande of Castilla-Leon and Sancha of León, on 8 May 1081. (Alfonso VI Ferdinandez was born before Jun 1040 and died on 29 Jun 1109.)
Marriage Notes:
Unfortunately, Urraca, born most probably in late 1080, was to prove to be the sole surviving offspring of the union of Alfonso and Constance. If other children were born to them, such royal progeny had not survived infancy long enough to have attracted the attention of the chroniclers. 2282 <../Sources.htm>

Constance married Alfonso VI Ferdinandez, son of Fernando I el Grande of Castilla-Leon and Sancha of Leon, on 8 May 1081. (Alfonso VI Ferdinandez was born before Jun 1040 and died on 29 Jun 1109.)