Sancho de Larrosa (died 10 September 1142) was a Spanish ecclesiastic: a priest in the

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, from 1101 to 1104 regent of the monastery of San Adrián de Sasabe and from 1122 until his death the

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. In 1141, Sancho approved the creation of a

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priory at San Adrián de Vadoluengo. Sancho was an accomplished scribe and miniaturist. As a cathedral canon in Huesca, he composed documents for Bishop

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(1099–1130) in an elegant

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book hand. As bishop, he often accompanied his signature with a pictorial ''signum'': the head of a bearded man.

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