Urraca Henriques (born in Guimarães, 1095[1] - died in Pontedeume, 1173) was an infanta of Portugal, daughter of Henrique de Borgonha, count of Portucale and Teresa de Leão, condessa of Portugal. She was the sister of Afonso Henriques, the first king of Portugal.[1]
She married Bermudo Pérez de Trava, a Galician magnate and member of the House of Traba, the most powerful in medieval Galicia, around 1122. He was the son of Pedro Froilaz de Trava and his first wife Urraca Froilaz.[2][3]
In 1148, her husband commissioned the abbot of the Monastery of San Xusto to build a convent in the village of Nogueirosa near the town of Pontedeume. This place was part of the arras that he had given to the Infanta Urraca on 25 July 1122. Later, in 1150, Urraca donated various assets to the abbot and the monastery on the condition that she and four ladies from her family were admitted as nuns to a convent called Santa Maria de Nogueirosa.[4]
Around 1160, Bermudo became a monk at the Monastery of Santa Maria de Sobrado dos Monges, a monastery founded by his ancestors, where he died in 1168 at the age of 80.[4][5]
Urraca also retired, probably in the same year as her husband, to the monastery in Nogueirosa where she died in 1173 and was buried in the church of her convent.[6]
- ^ a b Rodrigues Oliveira 2010, p. 28.
- ^ López-Sangil 2002, p. 55.
- ^ Torres Sevilla-Quiñones de León 1999, p. 322.
- ^ a b López-Sangil 2002, p. 62.
- ^ Torres Sevilla-Quiñones de León 1999, p. 326.
- ^ López-Sangil 2002, p. 62–64.