Urraca of León and Castille

Once things start getting different, I run into one of the first big divergence in history: the last Castillian monarch common to both timelines. Her name is Urraca, and she's something I've tried to ignore for awhile because so much is changed that I have no certain idea how her life plays out. This is her blog post.

Urraca's recognizable life

The only reason that I'm sure about Urraca's existence at all is because she's born in 1079. This means that she's two years old as of the POD.

After that point, her life is going to get very different.

• The first really big change in her life takes place sometime in 1085, when her father, Alfonso VI, dies without leaving any legitimate male issue. (Because they're both born after the POD, both Elvira and Teresa are a bit less ordained; one or the other might be born male, although I'm inclined to say no to that for various reasons.)
• I'm thinking (but not certain) that the 1086 revolt may actually succeed at establishing an independent Kingdom of Galicia under Garcia II (styled "the Monk" in-verse if it happens.) Why? No real reason, other than that it's very fun to have the entire Iberian Atlantic coast united. (The evolution of Galicia into Portugal is a long, long topic for discussion and need not concern us here.)
• Umm Urraca, aka Constance of Burgundy, has pronounced Cluniac ties, which IRL helped alienate a lot of her potential supporters. (I've seen discussion to the effect that El Cid himself was involved in this; it's basically confirmed that Sisnando Davides also got into some trouble with Constance at some point, which is why he went taifa-building in Coimbra of his own.) Without anybody who can stop her, it's probably preordained that Urraca is going to get married to the same first husband. (Although it's not guaranteed; she could just as well be married to Henry instead, which would set off some interesting sequences all their own.)

There's also some other things that I know don't happen:

• Urraca does not lose her Burgundian child. IRL, she was pregnant (and had a stillborn child) in 1091. After a perilous birth, that child survives (named "Alfonso" after his late grandfather.) She has some other children by Raymond, though, one of whom ascends to the throne after her death as Guillermo I.
• Urraca does not marry Alfonso the Battler. Alfonso (even though he's definitely old enough to be born, just as Urraca is) isn't even called the Battler, because Saraqusta (without El Cid to secure its succession) fell to his father, Sancho Remíriz, in the mid-1080s. I have no idea what he's called, or what he does in the meantime for that matter.

And there's some other things to consider in writing her story:

• Assuming her husband is in fact Raymond of Burgundy, for at least a few years she's going to have a useful political ally in the form of her brother-in-law, one Callixtus II (unless he isn't.)

Ordinarily, something this fragmentary would be labeled a work in progress; however, seeing as it's coherent enough as it stands, "stub" feels more appropriate. And so a stub this will be declared, until such time as work on it actually starts to progress.

• Maybe she marries Diego Rodriguez? Without an Almoravid invasion, El Cid's son doesn't need to die in 1097. A widowed Urraca would be an obvious candidate for Diego to marry, if he isn't already - as long as the succession was orderly, it'd unite Leon-Castilla with one of the big trade ports on the Iberian coast, producing a respectable counterweight to (by this time runaway) Aragon