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Sancho II of Castile and León. Sancho II in the Castilian manuscript Compendium of Chronicles of Kings (...) (c. 1312-1325). Currently located at Biblioteca Nacional de España. Sancho II (1036/1038 – 7 October 1072), called the Strong (el Fuerte), was King of Castile (1065–72), Galicia (1071–72) and León (1072).
Sancha was a daughter of Alfonso V of León by his first wife, Elvira Menéndez. [2] She became a secular abbess of the Monastery of San Pelayo. [3] In 1029, a political marriage was arranged between her and count García Sánchez of Castile. [4] However, having traveled to León for the marriage, García was assassinated by a group of ...
Mayor Alfonso de Meneses. María Alfonso Téllez de Meneses (c. 1265 – 1321), known as María de Molina, was queen consort of Castile and León from 1284 to 1295 by marriage to Sancho IV of Castile, and served as regent for her minor son Ferdinand IV (1295 - c.1301) and later her grandson Alfonso XI of Castile (1312-1321).
Notes. Sancho II. the Strong. 27 December 1065. 6 October 1072. Oldest son of Ferdinand I of León, who ruled León and Castile, and declared himself Emperor of Spain. Ferdinand did not, however, pass both of his kingdoms on to Sancho but on his death gave instructions to divide the kingdoms among his sons, with Sancho receiving Castile ...
Sancho IV of Castile (12 May 1258 – 25 April 1295) called the Brave (el Bravo), was the king of Castile, León and Galicia (now parts of Spain) from 1284 to his death. Following his brother Ferdinand's death, he gained the support of nobles who declared him king instead of Ferdinand's son Alfonso. Faced with revolts throughout his reign ...
Eleven children were born from her marriage to King Sancho, eight of whom reached adulthood: Theresa (1175/1176 – 18 June 1250), [2] [6] she became the wife of King Alfonso IX of León and was beatified in 1705; Sancha (1180 – 13 March 1229), [9] founded the Monastery of Celas near Coimbra where she lived until her death. Her sister Theresa ...
Sancho Garcés III (c. 992–996 – 18 October 1035), also known as Sancho the Great (Spanish: Sancho el Mayor, Basque: Antso Gartzez Nagusia), was the King of Pamplona from 1004 until his death in 1035. He also ruled the County of Aragon and by marriage the counties of Castile, Álava and Monzón. He later added the counties of Sobrarbe (1015 ...
Urraca (León, 24 June 1081 – Saldaña, 8 March 1126), called "the reckless" (la temeraria), [2] was Queen of León, Castile and Galicia from 1109 until her death. She claimed the imperial title as suo jure Empress of All Spain[3] and Empress of All Galicia. [4] She is considered to be the first European queen to reign in her own right.