Urraca of Zamora

Noble person

– 1101

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Who was Urraca of Zamora?

Urraca was a Leónese infanta, one of the five children of Ferdinand I the Great, who received the city of Zamora as her inheritance and exercised palatine authority in it. Her story was romanticized in the cantar de gesta called the Cantar de Mio Cid, and Robert Southey's Chronicle of the Cid.

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  • Urraca of Zamora, Infanta of Castile
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1101
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on July 23, 2013

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