page_title: Fernando Pérez de Lara
section_title: Family
hierarchical_section_title: Fernando Pérez de Lara / Family
caption_attribution_description: Kirche in Rotortilla am Embalse de Ebro
context_page_description: Fernando Pérez de Lara, also called Fernando Furtado or Hurtado, was the illegitimate son of Urraca, queen regnant of León and Castile, and her lover, Count Pedro González de Lara.
  He was acknowledged publicly by both parents, and his surname indicates that he was accepted by the Laras as one of their own. A rebellious attempt by his father to place him on the throne in 1130 failed, but he maintained good relations with his half-brother, King Alfonso VII, after that. He was not, however, a regular figure at the royal court, and even stayed for a time in Portugal. He was captured fighting for Alfonso VII against the Portuguese in the Battle of Valdevez in 1141. Freed, he returned to Castile, where he had lands.
context_section_description: Fernando is first attested in a document of 14 April 1122, which he signed along with his father, his father's new wife and his sisters. This act confirmed the boundaries and rights of the village councils (concejos) of Pinilla, Renedo and Santa María de Retortillo (today in Campoo de Enmedio). With the exception of this occasion in 1122, it seems that Fernando was raised at the queen's court.
  Fernando was recognised by the queen as her son in a document of 5 November 1123, by which Urraca made a donation to the Diocese of León. The document was signed by "Fernando Pérez, younger son", an open acknowledgement the Fernando was the queen's son by Pedro, as indicated by the surname Pérez.
  Neither Fernando nor his uterine half-brother, the future king Alfonso VII, were married before their mother's death in 1126. Fernando had at least one known full sibling, Elvira Pérez, who was probably older. She married García Pérez de Traba and later Count Beltrán de Risnel. The Historia Compostellana suggests that there were other sons and daughter from Urraca and Pedro's relationships: "[Pedro] slept with [King Alfonso's] mother, and with this queen he had sons and daughters out of wedlock."
caption: Church of Santa María de Retortillo today
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