Jimena Múñoz ^{1 2}

   Another name for Jimena was Jimena Nuniéz de Guzman.

  General Notes:

"...Unfortunately, Urraca, born most probably in late 1080, was to prove to be the sole surviving offspring of the union of Alfonso and Constance. If other children were born to them, such royal progeny had not survived infancy long enough to have attracted the attention of the chroniclers. The lack of a male heir would have been a major disappointment already in 1081, and it would have been doubly so if Urraca's birth were attended by complications such as made it unlikely that the queen could subsequently give birth successfully. [193] Yet a second annulled marriage would have created major diplomatic problems both in Rome and in the south of France. Constance of Burgundy would therefore remain queen down to her death in 1093.

Nevertheless, the necessities of the dynasty made it imperative that the king should take a mistress. I suspect that this took place in 1081 or 1082. It has been suggested that this liaison occurred in the brief period between the annulment of the marriage to Inés and the new nuptials with Constance, but that idea has little but gallantry to recommend it.(18) The royal choice fell upon one Jimena Múñoz, whose father seems to have been Muño Múñoz, a magnate of western Asturias and of the northern Bierzo who seems to have been styled "count" everywhere but in the contemporary documents.

Everyone in the court and the kingdom, Queen Constance included, would have understood the royal desire for a male heir. The king was then in his late forties and the imperatives of the dynasty could wait no longer. But the expedient proved ultimately to be futile as Jimena gave birth to two children only, who survived, and both were daughters. Even though child marriages were not uncommon in the period, it does seem likely that Infanta Elvira had been born before 1087 if she was married by 1094. Whether or not her sister Teresa, the future queen of Portugal, had been born is less certain because we cannot surely date her marriage before 1096." ³

Jimena associated with Alfonso VI Ferdinandez, son of Fernando I el Grande of Castilla-Leon and Sancha of León. (Alfonso VI Ferdinandez was born before Jun 1040 and died on 29 Jun 1109.)