Sancha of Castile

1154 - 1208  (54 years)

• Name	Sancha of Castile
  Born	21 Sep 1154	Toledo, Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Alternate birth	1155  [2, 3]
  Alternate birth	21 Sep 1155	Toledo, Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain   [1]
  Alternate birth	1157  [2]
  Died	9 Nov 1208	Villanueva de Sigena, Huesca, Aragón, Spain   [1, 3, 4]
  Buried	Monastery of Nuestra Señora, Sigena, Huesca, Aragón, Spain   [3]
  Person ID	I5255	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	6 Jan 2018

  
  

  Father	Alfonso VII, King of Leon and Castile,   b. 1 Mar 1105, Caldas de Reyes, Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain ,   d. 21 Aug 1157, Fresneda, Teruel, Aragon, Spain  (Age 52 years)
  Mother	Richeza of Poland,   b. Between 1130 and 1140,   d. Abt 1185  (Age ~ 55 years)
  Married	Between 23 Oct 1152 and 21 Dec 1152  [3]
  Family ID	F2641	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Alfonso II, King of Aragón, Sobrarbe, and Ribagorza,   d. 25 Apr 1196, Perpignan, Pyrènèes-Orientales, Languedoc-Roussillon, France
  Married	18 Jan 1174	Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain   [3, 5]
  Children	1. Pedro II, King of Aragón,   b. Between 1174 and 1176,   d. 14 Sep 1213, Muret, Occitan, France  (Age ~ 39 years)   2. Alfonso II,   b. Abt 1180,   d. Feb 1209, Palermo, Sicily  (Age ~ 29 years)
  Last Modified	16 Jun 2018
  Family ID	F4703	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Founded the Monastery of Nuestra Señora in 1188; became a nun there after her husband's death.

  
  

• Sources

  [S846] Spanish-language Wikipedia. [S145] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. 8th edition, William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, 2006, 2008. [S858] Szabolcs de Vajay, "From Alfonso VII to Alfonso X: The First Two Centuries of the Burgundian Dynasty in Castile and Leon -- A Prosopographical Catalogue in Social Genealogy, 1100-1300." Studies in Genealogy and Family History in Tribute to Charles Evans on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday, ed. Lindsay L. Brook. Salt Lake City: Association for the Promotion of Scholarship in Genealogy, 1989. [S145] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. 8th edition, William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, 2006, 2008., year only. [S145] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. 8th edition, William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, 2006, 2008., date only.