Constance of Castile
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Constance of Castile (1136 or 1140 – 4 October 1160)[1] was Queen of France as the second wife of Louis VII, who married her following the annulment of his marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine.Template:Sfn She was a daughter of Alfonso VII of León and Berengaria of Barcelona,Template:Sfn but her year of birth is not known.
Life
The official reason for her husband's annulment from Eleanor of Aquitaine had been that he was too close a relative of Eleanor for the marriage to be legal by Church standards; however, he was even more closely related to Constance. They were second cousins through William I, Count of Burgundy.
Constance died giving birth to her second child. Desperate for a son, her husband remarried a mere five weeks after her death.
Constance was buried in the Basilica of Saint-Denis, Paris.
Children
Constance had two children:
- Margaret, 1157–1197, who married first Henry the Young King of England,Template:Sfn and then Béla III of HungaryTemplate:Sfn
- Alys, 1160–1220, who married William IV of PonthieuTemplate:Sfn
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- Castilian House of Burgundy
- Queens consort of France
- Deaths in childbirth
- Leonese infantas
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- 12th-century births
- 1160 deaths
- Year of birth uncertain
- Burials at the Basilica of Saint-Denis
- 12th-century nobility from León and Castile
- 12th-century French women
- 12th-century French people
- Daughters of emperors
- Daughters of kings