Count Henry BURGUNDY

   Other names for Henry were PORTUGAL Count and BOURGOGNE Count.

   Ancestral File Number: 8HTF-21. User ID: 75639012.

   General Notes:

Count of BURGUNDY, Count of PORTUGAL.

BOOKS
Kings and Queens of Europe, Genealogical Chart, Anne Taute and Romilly Squire, Taute, 1989: "Portugal Royalty: Henrique (Henry/Bourgogne) Died 1112, Mar Tarasia Died 1130 illegitimate daughter of Alfonso V King of Castilla & Leon."

The Story of Civilization, Will Durant, Vol IV, The Age of Faith, Bk V, TheClimax of Christianity, Ch XXV, The Recovery of Europe, Sec XIII, Portugal, p701: "In the year 1095 Count Henry of Burgundy, a crusading knight in Spain, so pleased Alfonso VI of Castile and Leon that the King gave him a daughter, Theresa, in marriage, and included in her dowry, as a fief, a county of Leon named Portugal - from the seaport town called Portus Cale by the Romans, and Oporto (`the port') today. The territory had been won from Moslem Spain only thirty-one years before; and south of the Mondego River the Moors still ruled. Count Henry felt uncomfortable as anything less than a king; from their marriage he and his wife plotted to make their fief an independent state. When Henry died (1112),Theresa continued to labor for independence..."

ANCESTRAL FILE
Ancestral File Ver 4.11 8HTF-21 Henri De BURGUNDY [COUNT OF PORTUGAL] Born 1035 Burgundy France Mar 1093 Teresa Alfonso De CASTILLA 8HTF-36 Died 1112.

   Marriage Information:

Henry married Theresa Alfonso Leon CASTILE, daughter of Emperor Alfonso Castile SPAIN, VI and Ximena Nunez De GUZMAN, in 1093. (Theresa Alfonso Leon CASTILE was born about 1056-1070 in Toledo, Toledo, Spain and died on 1 Nov 1130.)