Guillén Pérez de Guzmán

Guillén Pérez de Guzmán
Noble family	Guzmán
Father	Pedro Rodríguez de Guzmán
Mother	Mahalda
Born	c. 1180
Died	1233

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 Portugal as the wife of King Alfonso III. His father was Pedro Rodríguez de Guzmán—killed in the Battle of Alarcos on July 18, 1195and son of Rodrigo Muñoz de Guzmán—and Mahalda With his brothers Nuño and Theobald, he fought alongside King Alfonso VIII at the decisive Battle of Navas de Tolosa 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 Berengaria of Castile and her son, the future king Ferdinand III.

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

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