Sancha of Castile (21 September 1154/5 – 9 November 1208) was the only surviving child of King
Alfonso VII of Castile
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by his second wife,
Richeza of Poland. On January 18, 1174, she married King
Alfonso II of Aragon
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at
Zaragoza
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; they had at least
eight children who survived into adulthood.
A patroness of troubadours such as Giraud de Calanson and Peire Raymond, the queen became involved in a legal dispute with her husband concerning properties which formed part of her dower estates. In 1177 she entered the county of
Ribagorza and took forcible possession of various castles and fortresses which had belonged to the crown there.
After her husband died at Perpignan in 1196, Sancha was relegated to the background of political affairs by her son
Peter II. She retired from court, withdrawing to the Hospitaller convent for noble ladies, the
Monastery of Santa María de Sigena
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, at
Sigena, which she had founded. There she assumed the cross of the
Order of St John of Jerusalem
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which she wore until the end of her life. The queen mother entertained her widowed daughter
Constance
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at Sigena prior to her leaving Aragon to marry
Emperor Frederick II
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in 1208. She died soon afterwards, aged fifty-four, and was interred in front of the high altar of her foundation at the
Monastery of Santa María de Sigena
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; her tomb is still there to be seen.
Issue
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Peter II (1174/76 – 14 September 1213), King of Aragon and Lord of Montpellier.
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Constance
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*Constance Bay, Ottawa, Canada
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* Mount Constance, Washington State
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(1179 – 23 June 1222), married firstly King
Imre of Hungary and secondly
Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
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.
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Alfonso II (1180 – February 1209), Count of Provence, Millau and Razès.
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Eleanor
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(1182 – February 1226), married Count
Raymond VI of Toulouse
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Raymond was born at Saint-Gilles, Gard, ...
.
* Ramon Berenguer (ca. 1183/85 – died young).
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Sancha
is a district of Setagaya, Tokyo
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(1186 – aft. 1241), married Count
Raymond VII of Toulouse
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Raymond was born at the Château de Beaucaire, the son of Raymond VI of Toulouse ...
, in March 1211
* Ferdinand (1190 – 1249), cistercian monk, Abbot of
Montearagón.
* Dulcia (1192 – ?), a nun at Sijena.
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Sancha
is a district of Setagaya, Tokyo
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