Guillén Pérez de Guzmán ( ca. 1180–1233), a member of the House of Guzmán, one of the most aristocratic of the Kingdom of Castile, was the maternal grandfather of Queen Beatrice of Castile, Queen Consort of

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as the wife of King Alfonso III. His father was Pedro Rodríguez de Guzmán—killed in the

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on July 18, 1195 and son of

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—and Mahalda With his brothers Nuño and Theobald, he fought alongside King Alfonso VIII at the decisive

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in 1212. Even though his kinsmen supported the Laras during the crisis that ensued after the death of King Alfonso VIII, Guillén, probably because of his marriage to a member of the Girón clan, supported Queen

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and her son, the future king Ferdinand III.

Marriage and issue

He married, probably before 1217 and certainly before May 1222, María González Girón daughter of Gonzalo Rodríguez Girón and Sancha Rodríguez. María, after the death of her husband Guillén, married

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, with issue. Guillén Pérez de Guzmán and his wife María were the parents of: *

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, married to Teresa Álvarez de Manzanedo * Pedro Núñez de Guzmán, ''adelantado mayor'' of Castile and father of

Alonso Pérez de Guzmán Alonso Pérez de Guzmán (1256–1309), known as ''Guzmán el Bueno'' ("Guzmán the Good"), was a Spanish nobleman and hero of Spain during the Middle Ages, medieval period. Guzmán is the progenitor of the Dukes of Medina Sidonia, the oldes ...

. *

Mayor Guillén de Guzmán Mayor Guillén de Guzmán (1205–1262) was a member of one of the most aristocratic families in the court of King Ferdinand III of Castile. Her parents were Guillén Pérez de Guzmán and María González Girón, daughter of Gonzalo Rodríguez G ...

, mistress of King

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with whom he had a daughter, Beatrice of Castile, the wife of King

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