Ferdinand de la Cerda

Ferdinand de la Cerda
Ferdinand de la Cerda
	heir apparent of Castile & León
	Tomb of Ferdinand de la Cerda
Born	23 October 1255
Died	1275 (aged 19 or 20); Ciudad Real
Noble family	House of la Cerda
Spouse(s)	Blanche of France
	Issue Alfonso de la Cerda; Fernando de la Cerda
Father	Alfonso X of Castile
Mother	Violant of Aragon
Religion	Roman Catholicism

Ferdinand de la Cerda (23 October 1255 – 1275) was the heir apparent to the Crown of Castile as the eldest son of Alfonso X and Violant of Aragon. His nickname, de la Cerda, means "of the bristle" in Spanish, a reference to being born with a full head of hair.^[1]

Arms of the House de la Cerda to the 13th century, a combination of Castile and León, from infante Fernando, and the arms of France, for Blanche of France.^[2]

In November 1268 he married Blanche, the daughter of King Louis IX of France. They had two sons:

Alfonso de la Cerda (1270-1333), who was believed to have married Matilde of Narbonne, daughter of Viscount Aimery VI of Narbonne.^[3] Recent research showed that Alfonso de la Cerda married Matilde of Brienne, daughter of John I of Brienne.^[4] They had four sons and three daughters.
Fernando de la Cerda (1275-1322), who married Juana Núñez de Lara, called "la Palomilla", Lady of Lara & Herrera, daughter of Juan Núñez de Lara “el Mayor” and Teresa Álvarez de Azagra. They had one son and three daughters. One daughter, Blanca Núñez de Lara, was the mother-in-law to King Henry II of Castile.

Ferdinand became regent of Castile in November 1274 when his father left for Germany. In May 1275 the Marinids from Morocco landed in Spain upon call from Muhammad II of Granada and attacked Castile. Ferdinand raised troops and moved south from Burgos to defend the kingdom but died unexpectedly in Villa Real in August 1275 leaving Castile open to invasion. His sons did not inherit the throne of their grandfather, since their uncle Sancho, who had repulsed the Moorish invasion, usurped the throne.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Ferdinand de la Cerda

16. Ferdinand II of León

8. Alfonso IX of León

17. Urraca of Portugal

4. Ferdinand III of Castile

18. Alfonso VIII of Castile

9. Berengaria of Castile

19. Eleanor of England

2. Alfonso X of Castile

20. Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor

10. Philip of Swabia

21. Beatrice I, Countess of Burgundy

5. Elisabeth of Hohenstaufen

22. Isaac II Angelos

11. Irene Angelina

23. Unknown Palaiologina?, afterwards Irene

1. Ferdinand de la Cerda

24. Alfonso II of Aragon

12. Peter II of Aragon

25. Sancha of Castile

6. James I of Aragon

26. William VIII of Montpellier

13. Marie of Montpellier

27. Eudokia Komnene

3. Violant of Aragon

28. Béla III of Hungary

14. Andrew II of Hungary

29. Agnes of Antioch

7. Violant of Hungary

30. Peter II of Courtenay

15. Yolanda de Courtenay

31. Yolanda of Flanders

References

↑ Historia del apodo "de la Cerda". ARGOTE DE MOLINA, Gonzalo. Nobleza del Andaluzía. 1588.
↑ Maclagan, Michael and Jiri Louda, Lines of Succession, (MacDonald & Co., 1981), Table 47.
↑ Medieval Iberia: An Encyclopedia, Ed. E. Michael Gerli and Samuel G. Armistead, (Routledge, 2003), 50.
↑ Masnata y de Quesada, David E. (1985). «La Casa Real de la Cerda». Estudios Genealógicos y Heráldicos (Madrid: Asociación Española de Estudios Genealógicos y Heráldicos): pp. 169–229

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[1] Historia del apodo "de la Cerda". ARGOTE DE MOLINA, Gonzalo. Nobleza del Andaluzía. 1588.

[2] Maclagan, Michael and Jiri Louda, Lines of Succession, (MacDonald & Co., 1981), Table 47.

[3] Medieval Iberia: An Encyclopedia, Ed. E. Michael Gerli and Samuel G. Armistead, (Routledge, 2003), 50.

[4] Masnata y de Quesada, David E. (1985). «La Casa Real de la Cerda». Estudios Genealógicos y Heráldicos (Madrid: Asociación Española de Estudios Genealógicos y Heráldicos): pp. 169–229