Editing Ferdinand II of León (section)

===Second marriage with Teresa Fernández de Traba===
In 1175, [[Pope Alexander III]] annulled the marriage of Ferdinand II and Urraca of Portugal because they were related in the prohibited third degree of [[consanguinity]] as being [[Cousin|second cousins]] (their grandmothers, Queen [[Urraca of León]] and Countess [[Theresa, Countess of Portugal|Teresa of Portugal]] were half-sisters), despite the fact that the Queen gave birth a son and heir, Infante [[Alfonso IX of León|Alfonso]], in 1171. The gold of Castile and England countered the one that Leon offered to Rome to obtain the Papal dispensation for the marriage, since its validity supposed de facto the alliance of Portugal and León, which did not interest neither Castile nor to England, who had family ties to each other after Alfonso VIII was married to [[Eleanor of England, Queen of Castile|Eleanor]], daughter of King [[Henry II of England]].

After August 1177 and certainly before 7 October 1178, Ferdinand II married with [[Teresa Fernández de Traba]], the illegitimate daughter of Count [[Fernando Pérez de Traba]] (the king's former tutor) and Countess Teresa of Portugal, and widow of Count [[Nuño Pérez de Lara]]; with this marriage, the king cemented his alliance with the powerful [[House of Lara|Houses of Lara]] and [[House of Traba|Traba]] —although just like his first marriage, Ferdinand II was also closely related with his new wife in not only a prohibited degree of consanguinity but also of [[Affinity (law)|affinity]] (they were not only 1st cousins once removed but also Teresa Fernández de Traba was aunt of Urraca of Portugal), apparently there wasn't any questioning or impediment for this new wedding of the Leonese monarch.