Teresa Fernández de Traba

Teresa Fernández de Traba (died 6 February 1180 in León) was the Queen consort of León (1178–1180) during the reign of Ferdinand II.

Family Teresa was the illegitimate daughter of Theresa, Countess of Portugal, and Fernando Pérez de Traba, Lord of Trastamara. She was already married to Count Nuño Pérez de Lara in 1152 when both ceded Castronuño to its inhabitants and established its borders, maintaining certain rights over the village after King Alfonso VII of León and Castile donated it in 1156 or 1157 to the Knights Hospitaller. On 29 January 1160 Teresa and husband Nuño founded the Cistercian convent of Santa María at Perales, donating to Ozenda, the first abbess, all their properties in Perales and Zorita. In 1174, they gave the bishop of Burgos the village of Barchilona in exchange for all the rights and properties of the hospital in Puente de Fitero which they had founded and donated to the Knights Hospitaller. Following the death of Nuño in 1177, Teresa went to the Leonese court, and there, before 7 October 1178, she married King Ferdinand II of León (1137–1188). Thanks to this marriage, her children lived at the court and boasted of being the offspring of a queen of León as attested by a charter where her son Álvaro making a donation to the Monastery of Sobrado called himself filius comitis domni Nunonis et regine domne Tarasie.

Issue She had children by both husbands, by Nuño Pérez de Lara having:

Fernando, married countess Mayor González Salvadórez, with issue. Mayor founded the Ermita de la Virgen de la Esperina. Álvaro (d. 1218), married Urraca Díaz de Haro, without issue. Once widowed, Urraca became a nun and was the abbess at the Monastery of Cañas. Álvaro had several children by his mistress Teresa Gil de Osorno. Gonzalo (d. 1225), married firstly Jimena Meléndez, without issue. He then married María Díaz de Haro, daughter of Diego López II de Haro, parents of Leonor, Nuño, Teresa, Diego, and Fernando González de Lara. After Gonzalo's death, María became a nun and succeeded her aunt Mencía López de Haro as the abbess at the Monastery of San Andrés de Arroyo. Sancha, wife of Sancho, Count of Provence María, abbess of Perales

By Ferdinand II of León, she had two sons:

Ferdinand, Infante of León (1179–1187). Sancho, Infante of León (1180).