Elvira of Castile Queen of Sicily

• Preferred Name: Elvira of Castile Queen of Sicily^{[1] [2] [3]}
  
• Gender: F
  
• FSID: LD7M-NF1
  
• Death: 8 FEB 1136 in Palermo, Sicily, Italy at LATI: N7.8 LONG: E3.58
  
• Birth: ABT 1102 in Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, España at LATI: N9.8333 LONG: E4
  
• Burial: 1136 in Cattedrale di Palermo ,Palermo, Città Metropolitana di Palermo, Sicilia, Italy at LATI: N8.1151 LONG: E3.3613 with note: Catedral de Palermo
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Reina consorte de Siciliadesde 1130 hasta 1135
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Elvira of Castile (c.?1100-8 February 1135) was the first Queen of Sicily.
  
  «b»Background and upbringing«/b»
  She was a daughter of Alfonso VI of Castile by his fourth queen, Isabella (perhaps identical to the Moslem convert Zaida of Seville, baptized as Isabel, who had been Alfonso's mistress). Elvira was raised in Toledo, so she must have been accustomed to a significant level of convivencia, which was present in Sicily as well.
  
  «b»Marriage«/b»
  Elvira married Roger II of Sicily in 1117. In 1130, she became queen of Sicily when her husband had himself crowned king. She bore Roger five sons and one daughter by 1135.
  
  In 1135, both Roger and Elvira fell ill. The illness was grave and infectious. Roger survived, but Elvira did not. Roger remained a widower for fifteen years and remarried only when four out of five of his sons with Elvira died.
  
  «b»Issue«/b»
  1.) Roger (b. 1118-d. 12 May 1148), heir, Duke of Apulia (from 1135), possibly also Count of Lecce.
  
  2.) Tancred (b. 1119-d. 1138), Prince of Bari (from 1135).
  
  3.) Alfonso (b. 1120/1121- d. 10 October 1144), Prince of Capua (from 1135) and Duke of Naples.
  
  4.) A daughter (d. young, 1135).
  
  5.) William I of Sicily (b. 1131-d. 7 May 1166), his successor, Duke of Apulia (from 1148).
  
  6.) Henry (b. 1135-d. in infancy)
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  Queen of Sicily. First wife of Roger the Second. She was the daughter of Alfonso VI of Leon and Castile and his fifth wife, queen Isabel, whom some scholars consider to be the same woman as his prior mistress Zaida, who had been baptized as Isabel.
  
  BIO
  BIO: from http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/CASTILE.htm#Elviradied1135MRogerIISicily as of 2/6/2016
  
  Infanta doña ELVIRA de Castilla y León ([1100/16 Mar 1104]-8 Feb 1135). The Chronicon Regum Legione
  
  === Mother ===
  There is disagreement among scholars over whether Alfonso's mistress, Zaida, mother of his son Sancho, is the same woman as Alfonso's queen Isabel, mother of Elvira and Sancha. Elvira is definitively daughter of Isabel. She is only daughter of Zaida if Zaida is identical to Queen Isabel, which is uncertain.

• m. 1117

1. Roger Le Grand III, b. 1118 in Sicily, Italy     d. 12 MAY 1148 in Palermo, Sicilia, Italy

1. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Elvira Alfonso Castile Queen Sicily -
   Author: Ancestral File (TM), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2737222797
   
2. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Elvira Alfonso Castile Queen Sicily -
   Author: Ancestral File (TM), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, July 1996 (c), data as of 2 January 1996
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2737222795
   
3. Title: Elvira of Leon and Castile, "Find A Grave Index"
   Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVV9-182J : 11 January 2023), Elvira of Leon and Castile, ; Burial, Palermo, Città Metropolitana di Palermo, Sicilia, Italy, Cattedrale di Palermo; citing record ID 7742289, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
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