Alfonso VI, nicknamed the Brave or the Valiant, was king of León, Galicia, and Castile.
13th century miniature of Alfonso VI from the Tumbo A codex at the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela.
Alfonso in the Libro de las Estampas
Signature of Alfonso VI, from a 1097 charter.
Epitaph of Jimena Muñoz, Alfonso's mistress and progenitor of the first Portuguese royal line.
Zaida of Seville
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Zaida of Seville, c. 1070–1093/1108, was a refugee Muslim princess, formerly associated with the Abbadid dynasty, who became a mistress and then perhaps wife of king Alfonso VI of Castile.
Alfonso VI of León and Castile
…relationship with Count Pedro González de Lara. She was succeeded by her son with Raymond of Burgundy, Alfonso VII. Bishop Pelagius of Oviedo mentions Zaida as one of the king's two concubines and says that she was the daughter of Al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbad, ruler of the Taifa of Seville. In fact, she was his…
Portrait of Zaida de Seville