Zaida of Seville
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Princess Zaida Of Seville (ca. 1071 – ca. 1107) was a refugee Muslim princess who was a mistress (and by some theories, a wife and queen) of Alfonso VI of Castile.
She is said by Spanish Muslim sources to have been the daughter-in-law of Al Mutamid, the Muslim King of Seville. She was the mother of Alfonso VI of Castile's only son, Sancho, who, though illegitimate, was named his father's heir (but was killed in the Battle of Ucles of 1108, during his father's lifetime).
Several modern sources have suggested that Zaida, baptised under the name of Isabel, is identical with Alfonso's wife, Queen Isabel (or that she was a second Queen Isabel whom he married after the first), but Bishop Pelayo of Oviedo, writing within a few years of Alfonso's death, gives an account of Alfonso's family naming a sole Queen Isabel and a mistress, Zaida/Isabel, without any indication that they were the same woman.
Zaida/Isabel died in childbirth, but the date is unknown, and it is unclear whether the child being delivered was Sancho, Sancha (if she were indeed identical to Queen Isabel), or an additional child, otherwise unknown.
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