page_title: Urraca of Zamora
section_title: Succession dispute
hierarchical_section_title: Urraca of Zamora / Succession dispute
caption_attribution_description: English: The chalice of Doña Urraca is a piece of Romanesque jewelry donated by the queen Urraca of Zamora (1033-1101), daughter of the king Fernando 1st of León and Castile. It goes back to the second half of the 12th century. Currently is kept in the museum of the Collegiate-Church of San Isidoro de León (Spain). Replica made on the occasion of the exhibition RAICES&#160;: EL LEGADO DE UN REINO-LEÓN (910-1230) Español: El Cáliz de doña Urraca es una pieza de orfebrería románica donada por la reina Urraca de Zamora (1033-1101), hija de rey Fernando I de León y Castilla. Se remonta a la segunda mitad del siglo XI. En la actualidad se guarda en el museo de la Colegiata de San Isidoro de León (España). Réplica realizada con motivo de la Exposición RAICES: EL LEGADO DE UN REINO-LEÓN (910-1230)
context_page_description: Urraca of Zamora was a Leónese infanta, one of the five children of Ferdinand I the Great, who received the city of Zamora as her inheritance and exercised palatine authority in it. Her story was romanticized in the cantar de gesta called the Cantar de Mio Cid, and Robert Southey's Chronicle of the Cid.
context_section_description: Before his death in 1065, Ferdinand divided his widespread conquests in central Spain between his five children, charging them to live at peace with one another. Ferdinand's oldest son, Sancho II, received Castile and the tribute from Zaragoza; Alfonso VI received León and the tribute from Toledo; and García II received Galicia. His daughters, Elvira and Urraca, received Toro and Zamora respectively.
  Sancho, however, resolved to rule over his father's entire kingdom and made war on his siblings. By 1072, Sancho had overthrown his youngest brother Garcia, and forced his other brother Alfonso to flee to his Moorish vassal city of Toledo. Toro, the city of Sancho's sister Elvira, fell easily. But in a siege of Urraca's better-defended city of Zamora, King Sancho was stalled, and was then mysteriously assassinated on 7 October 1072. It was widely suspected that the assassination was a result of a pact between Alfonso and Urraca. The Chronicle of the Cid, purportedly written by one of the Cid's followers, states that the assassin was a nobleman of Zamora, who then received sanctuary in the city. The chronicle is careful not to place any direct blame on Alfonso or Urraca, just as it takes pains to stress that the participation of the Cid at the siege of Zamora was involuntary and supposedly forced on him by King Sancho.
caption: The twelfth-century Chalice of Doña Urraca, donated by Urraca to the Basilica of San Isidoro de León, where it remains.
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