Ferdinand de la Cerda
John Carmi Parsons
Their elder son, Alphonso, was born in 1270 (Annales Toletanes III, in E.
Florez, _Espana Sagrada_, vol. 23, pp. 419-20).
The younger son, Ferdinand, was born posthumously (Jofre de Loyasa,
_Cronica_, ed. A. Ubieto Arteta, Textos Medievales 30 [Valencia, 1971], p.
18.
To these sons, Gerard Sivery, _Marguerite de Provence: Une reine du temps
des cathedrdales_, p. 252, adds a daughter Juana or Joan, but gives no
reference to a source of information. Sivery does not indicate that she
married. Before I encountered this book, I had never heard of any other issue
of the de la Cerda marriage save for the two sons named above.
The following information comes from a very old source, an 18th century
compilation, and may not be entirely reliable. I repeat it here for what
it's worth.
Alphonso de la Cerda's death is variously reported in 1327 and 1330. He
married twice: first Mafalda (Matilda) de Lunel and second to Isabelle de
l'Espinay.
By the first marriage, he had one son Louis, sometimes said to
have been count of Talmont. I have no dates of birth or death for
him. He married Leonor de Guzman and left an only daughter and
heir, Isabel (d. 1367), whose descendants by her second husband,
Bernard de Foix (son of Gaston III de Foix), used the surname de la
Cerda and bore the title counts of Medina Celi (dukes from 1491).
By the second marriage, Alphonso left three sons and a daughter:
Charles, count of Angouleme and constable of France, d. 1354 without
issue by Marguerite de Blois-St Pol. He left a natural son, Thibaud
"de Levis" living 1420. I don't know whether Thibaud is ancestor of
the house of Levis-Mirepoix.
Juan Alphonso, lord of Gebraleorra (no dates)
Alphonso, archdeacon at Notre Dame in Paris (no dates)
Isabel, wife of Ferdinand Ruiz de Villalobos (no dates)
Ferdinand de la Cerda (born posthumously 1275) married Juana (d. 1351),
heiress of the lords of Lara and widow of Henry of Castile (d. 1304), son
of Ferdinand III of Castile and Leon. Since Juana's marriage to Henry was
childless, her issue by Ferdinand inherited the Lara estates and name.
She and Ferdinand had three daughters and a son:
Margaret, a nun.
Blanche, wife of Juan Manuel, lord of Penafiel and Escalona (head
of a younger branch of the royal Castilian house)
Maria, married Louis d'Evreux, count of Etampes (a Capetian)
The son, Juan Nuno de Lara (d. 1350) married Maria of Castile, lady or
countess of Vizcaya (Biscay) and with a son Nuno (d. 1350, aged 2 or 3)
two daughters:
Juana (d. 1354, said to have been poisoned by Pedro the Cruel of
Castile), wife of Tello (d. 1370), natural son of Alphonso XI of
Castile. Their daughter Isabel (b. 1354) married Juan Alfonso,
count of Albuquerque.
Isabel (d. 1361) married Juan, infant of Aragon and had one daughter
Florentia, ultimately heiress of Vizcaya, who married Pierre, a
bastard son of Gaston II, viscount of Bearn in Gascony
John Parsons