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Dulce of Aragon

Dulce of Aragon
Queen consort of Portugal
D. Dulce de Barcelona, Rainha de Portugal - The Portuguese Genealogy (Genealogia dos Reis de Portugal).png
Dulce of Aragon, in Antonio de Hollanda's Genealogy of the Royal Houses of Spain and Portugal (1530–1534)
Born 1160
Died 1198 (aged 37–38)
Coimbra, Kingdom of Portugal
Burial Monastery of Santa Cruz in Coimbra
Spouse Sancho I of Portugal
Issue
Among others…
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House Barcelona
Father Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona
Mother Petronilla of Aragon

Dulce of Aragon (or of Barcelona;European Portuguese: [ˈduɫs(ɨ) dɨ äɾɐˈgɐ̃ːw̃, ˈduɫs(ɨ) d(ɨ) bäɾs(ɨ)ˈlʊ̃(ː)nɐ]; 1160 – 1 September 1198) was Queen consort to King Sancho I of Portugal. As the eldest daughter of Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona and his wife, Queen Petronila of Aragon, she was the sister of the future King Alfonso II of Aragon.

Her bethrothal to infante Sancho, son of Afonso Henriques, the first king of Portugal, was celebrated when she was eleven years old and the marriage in 1174. Not much is known about her life prior to her arrival in Portugal or of the wedding tokens she received upon her marriage.

"A beautiful and excellent lady, quiet and modest, her personality coinciding with her name," Dulce was used as a commodity to seal an alliance which aimed to "strengthen Portugal and to contain the expansionism of Castile and León" and she played the role that was expected of her as a wife and as the mother of numerous children". At the same time, the marriage compensated for the broken engagement of her husband's sister, Infanta Mafalda with her brother, the future king Alfonso II of Aragon. With the death of King Afonso Henriques in 1185, her husband ascended the throne and she became Queen consort of Portugal. In his first will, executed in 1188, her husband gave her the income from Alenquer, of the lands along the banks of the Vouga River, of Santa Maria da Feira and of Oporto.


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