Editing Alfonso V of León (section)

==Family==
Alfonso first married [[Elvira Menéndez (died 1022)|Elvira Menéndez]] in 1013, daughter of his tutor Menendo González at whose house he was raised as a child. They had two children:{{Sfn|Fernández del Pozo|1999|p=214}}
*[[Sancha of León]], married [[Ferdinand I of León and Castile]]
*[[Bermudo III of León]] ({{circa|1015}}–1037)

After Elvira's death on 2 December 1022,{{Sfn|Fernández del Pozo|1999|p=218}} Alfonso married [[Urraca Garcés (queen)|Urraca Garcés]], sister of King [[Sancho III of Pamplona]].{{sfn|Sánchez Candeira|1951|p=34}} Before this marriage took place, the king of Pamplona had sent Ponce, abbot at the Monastery of San Pedro de Tavèrnoles, later [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Oviedo#Leadership|bishop of Oviedo]], and a nobleman named Garcia, to intercede before [[Abbot Oliba]], bishop of [[Vic, Spain|Vic]], in favor of the marriage of his sister Urraca to the king of León, despite the impediments of consanguinity. Although Bishop Oliba did not authorize the marriage, describing it as ''incesti connubii'' in a letter dated 11 May 1023,{{Sfn|Martínez Díez|2007|pp=122–123}} the royal wedding was celebrated between the date of the bishop's letter and 13 November 1023 when Alfonso V and his new wife, who confirms as ''Urraka regina'', appear together for the first time in a charter in the [[Cathedral of León]].{{Sfn|Fernández del Pozo|1999|p=218}}{{Sfn|Martínez Díez|2007|pp=123 and 155}}

Urraca and her mother [[Jimena Fernández]] made a donation on 26 September 1028 to the [[Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela]] confirming as ''Scemena regina simulque et filia mea Urraca Regina (...) genitoris nostri Fredenandus Ueremudiz et domna Geloria'', and a few years later, King Bermudo III on 6 August 1031 referred to his step-mother as ''Urraca regina Garseani regis filia''.

Alfonso and Urraca had one daughter, who was named [[Jimena of León|Jimena]] as attested in a charter dated 22 December 1036 in a donation made by Muniadona and her son Fernando Gundemáriz, son of [[Gundemaro Pinióliz]], whom she confirms as Jimena, daughter of King Alfonso.{{Sfn|Fernández Conde|Torrente Fernández|2007|p= 198}}