Isabella

• Preferred Name: Isabella ^{[1] [2]}
  
• Gender: F
  
• Death: 1107 in Castile, Espagña at LATI: N2.35 LONG: E3.8167
  
• FSID: GNH7-NSC
  
• Notes:

  === Same as Zaida? ===
  Queen Isabel is known from a number of documentes dating from late in the reign of Alfonso VI. She appears after the disappearance of Queen Bertha, and in turn last appears in 1107, after which Alfonso has another Queen, Beatrice. The only chronicler to directly address Alfonso's complex marital history states that he had two mistresses, Jimena and Zaida, baptized as Isabella, and that he had five wives, Agnes, Constance, Bertha, Isabella, and Beatrice. He gives no indication that the queen named Isabella was the same as the earlier mistress who was baptized under the same name.
  
  A non-contemporary tomb memorial in the royal pantheon had separate memorials for 'Queen' Isabella and for Zaida/Isabella, with the former beign described as daughter of King Louis of France, yet there was no king Louis of an age appropriate for him to have been Isabella's father, adn it has been argued that there was insufficient time between teh last appearance of Alfonso's prior wife and Queen Isabella for the drawn-out political negotiations that would ahve accompanied a marriage to a foreign princess.
  
  Modern scholarly opinion is divided on ths question, with some identifying Zaida/Isabella with the later Queen Isabella, and others maintaining that they were distinct and assigning Isabella parentage from families that already had diplomatic links with Alfonso. One historian concluded that Alfonso married Isabella, she died, and then Alfonso married Zaida/Isabella, but none of his peers have followed this scenario.
  
  The same chronicler assigns Zaida one child, Sancho, and the Queen Isabella two daughters, Elvira and Sancha. These daughters of Alfonso VI are only children of Zaida if she is the same as Queen Isabella.

• m. 1099

1. Sancha Alfonso de León y Castilla, b. 16 MAR 1104 in Burgos, Castilla y León, España     d. 8 FEB 1135 in Toledo, Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, España
2. Elvira of Castile Queen of Sicily, b. ABT 1102 in Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, España     d. 8 FEB 1136 in Palermo, Sicily, Italy

1. Title: Wikipedia - The Abbadid Dynasty
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbadid_dynasty;
   Note: Wikipedia Muhammad al-Mu'tamid (ruled 1069–1095) Main article: Al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbad (aka King Abenabed) The son of Abbad II, Muhammad al-Mu'tamid (1069–1095) — who reigned under the title al-Mu'tamid — was the third and last of the Abbadids.[2] No less remarkable than his father, and more amiable, he also wrote poetry and favoured poets. Al-Mu'tamid went, however, considerably further in patronage of literature than his father, for he chose as his favourite and prime minister the poet Ibn Ammar. In the end, the vanity and feather-headedness of Ibn Ammar drove his master to kill him.[4] Al-Mu'tamid came even more under the influence of his favourite wife, al-Rumaikiyya, than under that of his vizier. He had met her paddling in the Guadalquivir, purchased her from her master, and made her his wife. The caprices of Romaica, and the lavish extravagance of Abbad III in his efforts to please her, form the subject of many stories;[4] a brief tale of the queen appears in the book 'Libro de los ejemplos del Conde Lucanor y de Patronio (Book of the examples of Count Lucanor and Patronio), as the tale XXX, De lo que aconteció al rey Abenabed de Sevilla con su mujer, Ramaiquía (Of What Happened to King Abenabed of Seville with his Wife, Ramaiquía). On the other hand, the stories about Ibn Ammar and Rumaiqiyya that appear in much later western works probably describe imaginary events. In 1071, al-Mu'tamid took control of Cordoba. This was a weak period of control as he had to re-assert control in 1078 and then lost it permanently in 1081.[2] During this period his vizier Ibn Ammar captured Murcia.[2] This period marked the beginning of the end for the Abbadid dynasty, as the following years saw them growing weaker and weaker due to a number of events: first, was the start of hostilities with Alfonso VI, followed by the Christians succeeding in Aragon, Valencia, and Toledo, finally domestic Muslims created issues at home.[2] When Alfonso VI, from Castile, took Toledo in 1085, Al-Mu'tamid called in Yusuf ibn Tashfin, the Berber Almoravid ruler. He had foreseen probability that Almoravids may overthrow him, nevertheless he choose to ally with them. When his son, Rashid, advised him not to call on Yusuf ibn Tashfin, Al-Mu'tamid rebuffed him and famously said, I have no desire to be branded by my descendants as the man who delivered al-Andalus as prey to the infidels. I am loath to have my name cursed in every Muslim pulpit. And, for my part, I would rather be a camel-driver in Africa than a swineherd in Castile.[16] With the assistance of the Almoravids, they were able to defeat Alfonso in 1086.[3] During the six years which preceded his deposition in 1091, Abbassid behaved with valour on the field, but was politically inept and cruel. At the end what he had foreseen happened to him: in 1095 his kingdom was overthrown by Yusuf ibn Tashfin and Almoravid sympathizers within his city, following which he was deposed.[3] He was exiled to Morocco[2] Al-Mu'tamid was the father-in-law, through his son, Fath al-Mamun (d. 1091), of Zaida, mistress, and possibly wife, of Alfonso VI of Castile.[17] She is said by Iberian Muslim sources to have been the daughter-in-law of Al Mutamid, the Muslim King of Seville, wife of his son Abu al Fatah al Ma'Mun, Emir of Cordoba,[18] (d. 1091). Later Iberian Christian chroniclers call her Al Mutamid's daughter, but the Islamic chroniclers are considered more reliable.[19] With the fall of Seville to the Almoravids, she fled to the protection of Alfonso VI of Castile, becoming his mistress, converting to Christianity and taking the baptismal name of Isabel
   
2. Title: Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
   Publication: Name: https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/CASTILE.htm#AlfonsoVIdied1109A;
   Note: Alfonso VI....m fifthly (Mar 1106) as her second husband, ZAÏDA, widow of ABU NASIR al Fatah al Ma'Mun Emir of Córdoba, daughter of --- (-13 Sep 1107, bur Royal Pantheon of San Isidor at León). The Chronicon Regum Legionensium names "Zaida, the daughter of King Abenabeth of Seville, who was baptised…Elisabeth" as the second of two concubines of King Alfonso, and their son "Sancho who died at the battle of Ucles"[516]. The Chronicon de Cardeña records that King Alfonso married “Mora, que decien la Cayda, sobrina de Abenafanle” who was mother of his son Sancho[517]. Her first marriage is confirmed by the Bayan al Mugrib of Ibn Idari which names "le fils d´Alphonse, Sancho, qu´il avait eu de l´épouse d´Al Mamun ibn Abbad" when recording the battle of Uclés[518]. Salazar y Acha attempts to explain these three apparently contradictory sources by suggesting that Zaida could have been the daughter of "un hermano mayor…Ismail ibn Abbad" of Mohammed al-Mutamid, noting particularly the practice of endogamous marriages in the Muslim dynasties[519]. As noted above, Ismail is recorded as the brother of al-Mutatid and so would have been the paternal uncle of al-Mutamid. From a chronological point of view therefore Salazar y Acha´s suggestion appears untenible, although Zaida could have been another relative, maybe the daughter of an otherwise unrecorded brother of al-Mutamid. Alberto Montaner Frutos also discusses Zaïda, in particular relating to legends which have developed in connection with her history[520]. Reilly[521] dates the start of her relationship with King Alfonso to late 1091 or 1092, suggesting its diplomatic importance would have been greatest after the fall of Córdoba in Mar 1091 but before the fall of Badajoz in early 1094. This seems supported by the likelihood that their son Sancho was at least 15 years old when he was killed at the battle of Uclés in May 1108. Zaïda was christened ISABEL[522], date not known. Reilly cites a document of Galician origin dated 27 Mar 1106 which indicates that King Alfonso had married "Helisabet" shortly before[523]?. Reilly[524] quotes a charter granted at Oviedo 19 Mar 1106 which lists members of the royal family, naming "Elisabeth" directly before "Sancho", which presumably refer to Zaïda and her son. "…Helisabet Regina, Reimundus comes, Urraca regis filia, Sancius filius regis…" subscribed the charter dated 14 May 1107 under which "Adefonsus…Toletani imperii rex…cum…uxore mea Helisabet regina" approved the mint of Santiago de Compostela[525]. Reilly assumes that the reference is to King Alfonso´s presumed fourth wife Isabel (Elizabeth)[526], but it appears more likely that the document refers to Zaïda. Reilly says that her sepulchral inscription (presumably now lost) reportedly stated that she had died in childbirth on 13 Sep, without giving the year, and in a later passage that the inscription stated that this was the "second ferial day", which he interprets as meaning a Monday or Thursday[527]. If the charters dated 1106 and 1107 correctly refer to Zaida, the year must have been 1107 assuming that King Alfonso married his sixth wife in 1108. Pérez´s history of Sahagún monastery, published in 1782, states that Queen Isabel was buried "en la Capilla mayor" of the monastery, but does not quote the inscription which confirms this statement[528].