Urraca Henriques (born in

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, 1095 - died in Pontedeume, 1173) was an

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, 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. She married Bermudo Pérez de Trava, a Galician magnate and member of the House of Traba, the most powerful in medieval

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, around 1122. He was the son of Pedro Froilaz de Trava and his first wife Urraca Froilaz. 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

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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

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to a convent called Santa Maria de Nogueirosa. 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. 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.

Offspring

The children of the Infanta Urraca and Bermudo Peres de Trava were: * Fernão Bermudes de Trava (m. after 1161). * Urraca Bermudes de Trava "a Maior", nun and abbess at the Monastery of Cascas. * Soeiro Bermudes de Trava (m. 1169), count, buried in the monastery of Sobrado. * Teresa Bermudes de Trava (d. c. 1219), buried in the monastery of Sobrado. She was the wife of (m. 1204), Lord of Batisela. * Sancha Bermudes de Trava (d. ca. 1208) married Soeiro Viegas de Ribadouro, son of Egas Moniz o Aio, in 1152. A son from this marriage, Lourenço Soares, was the husband of Urraca Sanches, illegitimate daughter of the king Sancho I. * Urraca Bermudes de Trava "the small" (m. after November 1196), the wife of Pedro Beltran with whom she had two children; Fernando Beltran and Elvira Peres.

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