1260- The Royal Family of Portugal

King Afonso III was 50 years old, the King of Portugal and the newly reconquered Algarve. He was a just a fair king and made new laws and organized the Portuguese Cortes. He was the cousin of Louis IX for his mother Urraca was Queen Blanche's sister. His first wife Mathilde de Dammartin, related to Joan de Dammartin, former Queen of Castile, was unable to give him a heir to the throne. Alfonso X offered him his pretty young illegitimate daughter, Beatrice. She was 11 at the time. She is now 18 and already gave birth to Branca who was one and just had a son Fernando.