Sancha of Castile

1154 - 1208  (54 years)

• Name	Sancha of Castile
  Birth	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]
  Death	9 Nov 1208	Villanueva de Sigena, Huesca, Aragón, Spain   [1, 3, 4]
  Burial	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, Aragón, Spain (Age 52 years)
  Mother	Richeza of Poland,   b. Abt 1135   d. 16 Oct 1185 (Age ~ 50 years)
  Marriage	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
  Marriage	18 Jan 1174	Zaragoza, Aragón, 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)
  Family ID	F4703	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Jun 2018

  
  

• 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.