Doña Teresa y doña Urracala figura de la madre como obstáculo político a comienzos del siglo XII
- 1 Departamento de Historia. Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
- Gallego Franco, Henar (ed. lit.)
- García Herrero, María del Carmen (ed. lit.)
Éditorial: Icaria
ISBN: 978-84-9888-793-8
Année de publication: 2017
Titre du volume: [CD-ROM anejo]
Volumen: 2
Pages: 115-130
Congreso: Asociación Española de Investigación de Historia de las Mujeres. Coloquio Internacional (18. 2016. Zaragoza)
Type: Communication dans un congrès
Résumé
Beyond women that helped their children to access to powerful positions, it is necessary to revise the relationship between mother and children at the Middle Ages to cope with other realities. Through a brief approach to the chronicles and documents about Teresa and Urraca, Alfonso VI’s daughters, this paper tries to draw the attention to the figure of the mother as a political obstacle. These two sisters struggled for the power and to defend their own political interests at the beginning of the 12th century. In doing so, they fought with their children and their supporters, breaking with the more widespread image of the mother as a defender, tutor and counsellor of her descendants.