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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 ...
Sancho was assassinated in 1072, during a siege of his sister's town of Zamora. [18] Since Sancho died unmarried and childless, all of his power passed to his brother Alfonso who, almost immediately, returned from exile in Toledo and took his seat as king of Castile and León. He was, however, deeply suspected of having been involved in Sancho ...
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).
Oldest son of Alfonso III. García became the first king of the new Kingdom of León, which was created from his father's Kingdom of Asturias. Garcia died without children. Ordoño II. c. 873. 914 – 924. 924. Middle son of Alfonso III and brother of García I. Ordoño was first king of the new Kingdom of Galicia, created from his father's ...
Sancha Raimúndez of León is thought to have been born between the years 1095 - year of her parent's marriage - and 1102. Daughter of Queen Urraca of León and Raymond of Burgundy, she was the sister of Alfonso VII of León, [1] who inherited the throne of León and Castlie after their mother's death. She was brought up by her mother, Urraca ...
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 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 ...