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Alfonso VIII Of Castile , and his wife Eleanor Plantegenet , (daughter of Henry II Of England and Eleanor Of Aquitaine ), was born in 1204 . Henry became heir to the throne when his older brother Ferdinand suddenly died, in 1211 . When his father died, in 1214 , Henry was just 10 years old, so the regency was assumed by Henry's older sister Berenguela Of Castile , wife of Alfonso IX Of Leon . In 1215 , Henry married Mafalda Of Portugal , daughter of Sancho I Of Portugal . As both spouses were very young, the marriage was not consummated, and it was dissolved in 1216 . Henry I died in Palencia in 1217 , at the age of 13. His sister Berenguela's son Ferdinand III succeeded him. |
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