Elvira, Queen of Sicily^[1]

Abt 1100 - 1135  (~ 35 years)

• Name	Elvira
  Suffix	Queen of Sicily
  Birth	Abt 1100
  Gender	Female
  Death	8 Feb 1135
  Notes	http://www.hull.ac.uk/php/cssbct/cgi-bin/gedlkup.php/n=royal?royal10460 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvira_of_Castile_(Sicilian_queen) She was a daughter of «u»Alfonso VI of Castile «/u» by his fourth queen, Isabella (perhaps identical to the Moslem convert «u»Zaida of Seville «/u», baptized as Isabel, who had been Alfonso's mistress). Elvira was raised in «u»Toledo «/u», so she must have gotten used to a significant level of «u»convivencia «/u» which was present in Sicily as well. Elvira married Count «u»Roger II of Sicily «/u» in 1117, but only infrequently saw him thereafter, for he was much preoccupied with rebellions on the «u»Italian Peninsula «/u» and she stayed with her children in «u»Palermo «/u» the capital. Despite this, the marriage was undoubtedly happy. In 1130, she became queen of Sicily when her husband had himself crowned king. She bore Roger five sons by 1135. In 1135, Roger fell ill. The illness was grave and infectious. Roger survived, but Elvira did not. Her death put Roger in such a deep depression that he spent days alone in his room which made people think he had died. This unusal reaction proves that the marriage of Roger and Elvira was not yet another medieval political affair, but an extraordinary happy union. Roger remained a widower for fifteen years and remarried only when four out of five of his sons with Elvira died.
  Person ID	I10713	Glenn Cook Family
  Last Modified	1 Nov 2009

  
  

  Father	Alfonso VI Ferdinandez, King of Leon and Castile,   b. Bef Jun 1040   d. 29 Jun 1109 (Age ~ 69 years)
  Mother	Zaida (Isabella),   b. Alicante, Spain d. 1107
  Marriage	1098
  Family ID	F3085	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Roger II the Great of Sicily, King of Naples and Sicily   d. 1154
  Marriage	1117
  Children	1. Roger III, Duke of Apulia,   b. 1118   d. 12 May 1148 (Age 30 years)   2. Tancred, Prince of Bari,   b. 1119   d. 1138 (Age 19 years)   3. Alfonso of Hauteville, Prince of Capua,   b. Abt 1120   d. 10 Oct 1144 (Age ~ 24 years)   4. William I the Bad or the Wicked, King of Sicily,   b. 1131   d. 1166 (Age 35 years)   5. Henry,   b. 1135   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F4759	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Nov 2009

  
  

• Sources

  [S36] Brian Tompsett, Dept of Computer Science, University of Hull, England(B.C.Tompsett@dcs.hull.ac.uk), Directory of Royal Genealogical Data, (This work is Copyright b 1994-2002 Brian C Tompsett).