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In 1068, Sancho defeated his cousins Sancho IV of Navarre and Sancho of Aragon in the War of the Three Sanchos.This expanded his Kingdom of Castile with the reconquered land of Bureba, Alta Rioja, and Álava, which his father had given to Sancho IV's father, García, for his support in defeating Bermudo III of León.
Ferdinand Sánchez (1029-1065), who continued to serve as count of Castile after he became king Ferdinand I of León. [c] On his death, Castile was elevated to a kingdom for his firstborn son, Sancho, who ruled as Sancho II of Castile.
The War of the Three Sanchos (Spanish: Guerra de los Tres Sanchos) was a brief military conflict between three Spanish kingdoms in 1065–1067.The kingdoms were all ruled by Jiménez kings who were first cousins: Sancho II of Castile, Sancho IV of Navarre, and Sancho Ramírez of Aragon, all grandsons of Sancho the Great.
Sancho II allied himself with Alfonso VI of León and together they conquered, then divided, Galicia. Sancho later attacked Alfonso VI and invaded León with the help of El Cid, and drove his brother into exile, thereby reuniting the three kingdoms. Urraca permitted the greater part of the Leonese army to take refuge in the town of Zamora.
Sancho II may refer to: Sancho II of Pamplona (b. aft. 935–994), King of Pamplona and Count of Aragon (970–994) Sancho II of Castile (1040–1072), King of Castile (1065–1072) and León (1072)
Alberta (fl. 1071) was the queen consort of King Sancho II of Castile (1065–1072).. She is known only from two documents. The earlier, dated 26 March 1071, is a charter issued by Sancho to the monastery of San Pedro de Cardeña. [1]
Sancho Alfonso of Castile (1342–1374), known in Spanish as Don Sancho Alfonso de Castilla, was Infante of Castile, 1st Count of Alburquerque. He was born in Seville as the ninth of the ten illegitimate children of Alfonso XI of Castile and Leonor de Guzmán .
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