Sancho of Aragon (1250 –

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, 1275) was an Infante of Aragon and

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, who was killed by the Moors.

Biography

Sancho was a son of

James I of Aragon James I the Conqueror ( es, Jaime el Conquistador, ca, Jaume el Conqueridor; 2 February 1208 – 27 July 1276) was King of Aragon and Lord of Montpellier from 1213 to 1276; King of Majorca from 1231 to 1276; and Valencia from 1238 to 12 ...

and his second wife Yolanda of Hungary. He joined the

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at a young age and had

Peter Pascual Peter Pascual (c. 1227 – 1299/1300), in Latin originally Petrus Paschasius (Spanish: ''Pedro Pascual'', Valencian : ''Pere Pasqual''), was a supposed Mozarabic theologian, bishop, and martyr.Robert Ignatius Burns''The Crusader Kingdom of Valencia ...

as a tutor. He became

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in 1266, when he was only 16 years old. In 1275 he raised some troops to engage

Marinid The Marinid Sultanate was a Berber Muslim empire from the mid-13th to the 15th century which controlled present-day Morocco and, intermittently, other parts of North Africa (Algeria and Tunisia) and of the southern Iberian Peninsula (Spain) ar ...

armies that had attacked

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. On 21 October 1275 he tried to intercept a numerically superior Marinid army in the

battle of Martos The Battle of Martos was a minor battle of the Spanish Reconquista fought between Martos and Torredonjimeno in Andalusia in 1275. The battle was fought between the troops of the Kingdom of Granada and those of the Crown of Castile. The Castili ...

but was defeated and taken prisoner. He was killed and beheaded. His body was recovered and buried in the

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. Because of his heroic death, he was venerated by the people as a martyr and considered Blessed.

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