Inés of Aquitaine (1052-1097), first wife of Alfonso VI. Married 1069, anullment in 1077.
· Constanza of Burgundy (1046-1093), second wife of Alfonso VI. Married 1081, mother of Queen Urraca I.
· Berta of Burgundy (1080-1097), third wife of Alfonso VI. Marrried in 1093.
· Isabel of Aquitaine (1074-1104), fourth wife of Alfonso VI. Married in 1097.
· Beatriz of Sicily (1090-1110), fifth wife of Alfonso VI. Married in 1108.
The list above is full with speculations.
Ines (Agnes) was born in 1059 (her parents married in 1058) and lived well after 1110. She remarried with Elias, Comte du Maine.
His first marriage was to Agnes of Aquitaine in 1069. He repudiated her, apparently after 27 June 1080, and on 8 May 1081 he was remarried to Constance of Burgundy.
Prior to this, he is reported by Orderic (IIRC) to have been espoused to
Agatha, daughter of William the Conqueror, but she was so aghast at marrying a barbarian that she died in a funk prior to the wedding - that is the Agatha above.
During this time he had as mistress a lady named
Jimena Munoz. Queen Constance was dead before 22 November 1093 and in December 1094
After the death of Constance, Alfonso married Berta, whose background is not definitely known (it has been conjectured that she was a daughter of Margrave Azzo II of Este by Gersende of Maine). Berta died on 25 January 1100.
Other sources say that Berthe was:
Berta de Bourgogne, was a sister of the same Raimond de Bourgogne who married Urraca I, and was probably born about the year 1070.
Berthe d'Aquitaine, halfsister of the Agnes above. Since Agnes was divorced because she was to strong related to Alfonso VI, it would be strange that Berthe would descent from the same family.
After Berta's death Alfonso may have married his mistress Zaida-Isabella. If so, she died before him as he
later had a wife named Beatrice, about whose background nothing is recorded
Zaida, baptized as Isabella, was the mother of
Sancho, illegitimate son of King Alfonso, born during his marriage to
Bertha, as you have indicated. Sancha and Elvira, however, are reported
as legitimate daughters of Alfonso, born by his wife Queen Isabella (by
the same source that names Zaida - it names his wives and thir children
including Isabella having Elvira and Sancha, and it then names his
mistresses and their children, including Zaida/Isabella having Sancho,
without giving any indication that the two were the same woman). It is
only if Queen Isabella was identical to Zaida/Isabella that these
Infantas are full siblings of Sancho.
Alfonso married _an_ Isabella in 1102, and she appears as queen in 17
documents through 1106. Her (apparently non-contemporary) funerary
stone calls her daughter of Louis of France (hence she is the 'Elizabeth
of France' named above, Isabella and Elizabeth being alternative forms
of the same name), but this is chronologically impossible as well as
there being no French mention of this seemingly noteworthy union. It
has been suggested that she may have been Louis' god-daughter. Again,
Burgundy and Aquitaine have been tapped as possible origins. Likewise,
it has been suggested that she might have been Zaida.
In yet another hypothesis, based on a document of Mar. 1106 which
reports "regnante rege illdefonso in legione eiusdemque helisabet regina
sub maritali copula legaliter aderente" suggested to Reilly that the
king had recently married a former mistress, and thus there were two
successive Isabellas: first the 'Queen Isabella', mother of the two
daughters, married in 1102, then Zaida/Isabella - the Helisabet of 1106.
However, this explanation requires a divorce from one Isabella to
marry the other (perhaps) as the 'French' Isabella is said to have died
in 1107 (on the same memorial stone that makes her daughter of Louis).
In November of 1107 (a corrupt and poorly dated document), an Isabella
last appears as queen. Beatrice was queen by May, 1108. She is said to
be French by a late writer, and a near-contemporary indicates that she
survived Alfonso and went back to her home country.
