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Sancho married Urraca, whose parentage has not been found in contemporary records. However, based on them having given a daughter the name of a founder of the Banu Gómez clan, she has been identified as sister of rebel García Gómez and daughter of count Gómez Díaz of Saldaña by Sancho's aunt, Muniadona Fernández of Castile.
In Castile, Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar is living a life of privilege as the son of the commander of Ferdinand's forces, Don Diego Laínez de Vivar. He is best friends with the future king of Castile prince Sancho and is secretly in a romantic relationship with Jimena, the daughter of count Gormaz, who succeeds Don Diego as commander. Unfortunately ...
King Ferdinand dies and his younger son, Prince Alfonso tells the elder son Prince Sancho that their father wanted his kingdom divided among his heirs: Castile to Sancho, Asturias and León to Alfonso, and Calahorra to their sister, Princess Urraca. Sancho refuses to accept anything but an undivided kingdom as his birthright.
Sancho soon turned on Alfonso. In 1072, with the aid of his alférez El Cid, at the Battle of Golpejera, he defeated Alfonso, who fled into exile in the Taifa of Toledo. Sancho was crowned King of León on 12 January 1072, holding all three crowns that Ferdinand had distributed to his sons only six years earlier.
The Jiménez dynasty, alternatively called the Jimena, the Sancha, the Banu Sancho, the Abarca or the Banu Abarca, [1] was a medieval ruling family which, beginning in the 9th century, eventually grew to control the royal houses of several kingdoms on the Iberian Peninsula during the 11th and 12th centuries, namely the Kingdoms of Navarre, Aragon, Castile, León and Galicia as well as of other ...
of Castile 1153–1157: Afonso I King of Portugal 1109-1185 r.1139-1185: Sancho VI the Wise King of Navarre 1132-1194 r.1150–1194: Sancha of Castile 1139–1179: Blanche of Navarre aft.1133-1156: Sancho III King of Castile ≈1134–1158 1157-1158: Ramón of Castilla ≈1136-? García of Castile ≈1142-1145/6: Alfonso of Castile ≈1144/6 ...
Sancho Garcés I (Basque: Antso I.a Gartzez; c. 860 – 10 December 925), [1] also known as Sancho I, was king of Pamplona from 905 until 925. He was the son of García Jiménez and was the first king of Pamplona of the Jiménez dynasty. [2] Sancho I was the feudal ruler of the Onsella valley, and expanded his power to all the neighboring ...
Sancho Garcés, nicknamed the Wise, who ruled as King of Navarre from 1150 until his death in 1194. He would be the first monarch to use the title "of Navarre". He married Sancha of Castile, daughter of Alfonso VII of León, King of Galicia, León and Castile. [10] Blanche, married in 1151 to Sancho III of Castile, King of Castile.