The name Sancho () is an Iberian name of

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origin (Santxo, Santzo, Santso, Antzo, Sans). Sancho stems from the

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name Sanctius. Feminine forms of the name are

Sancha Sancha is a given name, the feminine version of the Spanish Sancho. Sanchia, Sancia, and Santina are variant feminine forms. People named Sancha include: * Sancha, Lady of Alenquer (1180–1279), feudal Lady of Alenquer *Sancha of Aragon (1478� ...

Sancia Sanchia or Sancia is a feminine given name of Spanish and Portuguese origin from Latin ''sanctus'' or ''sancta'', meaning ''holy'' or ''saint''. The name, which has multiple forms, is the feminine version of the Spanish and Portuguese name Sanch ...

, and

Sanchia Sanchia or Sancia is a feminine given name of Spanish and Portuguese origin from Latin ''sanctus'' or ''sancta'', meaning ''holy'' or ''saint''. The name, which has multiple forms, is the feminine version of the Spanish and Portuguese name Sancho ...

(), and the common

patronymic A patronymic, or patronym, is a component of a personal name based on the given name of one's father, grandfather (more specifically an avonymic), or an earlier male ancestor. It is the male equivalent of a matronymic. Patronymics are used, b ...

Sánchez Sánchez is a Spanish family name. Historical origins "The illustrious Sanchez Family... is descended from one of a number of Gothic knights (caballeros) who in the year 714 escaped from the ‘barbara furia’ of the Mohammedan invasion and to ...

and

Sanches Sanches is a Portuguese surname. The Spanish version of this name is Sánchez. Notable people with the surname include: * Afonso Sanches (1289–1329), Portuguese nobleman * António Nunes Ribeiro Sanches (1699–1783), Portuguese physician and p ...

. Outside the Spanish-speaking world, the name is especially associated with the literary character

Sancho Panza Sancho Panza (; ) is a fictional character in the novel ''Don Quixote'' written by Spain, Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra in 1605. Sancho acts as squire to Don Quixote and provides comments throughout the novel, ...

. Sancho is a common slang term in the Spanish speaking world for the other man in the relationship. As in a spouse or girlfriend who is being unfaithful with a Sancho. Sancha is the feminine equivalent.

Kings of Navarre

* Sancho I * Sancho II * Sancho III * Sancho IV * Sancho V (also king of Aragon) * Sancho VI * Sancho VII

Kings of León and Castile

* Sancho I (León) * Sancho II (León and Castille) * Sancho III (Castille) * Sancho IV (León and Castille)

Kings of Portugal

* Sancho I, ''o Povoador'' * Sancho II, ''o Capelo''

King of Majorca

Sancho The name Sancho () is an Iberian name of Basque origin (Santxo, Santzo, Santso, Antzo, Sans). Sancho stems from the Latin name Sanctius. Feminine forms of the name are Sancha, Sancia, and Sanchia (), and the common patronymic is Sánchez and ...

Dukes of Gascony

* Sancho I * Sancho II * Sancho III * Sancho IV * Sancho V * Sancho VI

Counts of Castille

* Sancho García

Other historical figures

Abd al-Rahman Sanchuelo Abd al-Rahman al-Mahdi (9834 March 1009), nicknamed Sanchol ('little Sancho', Sanchuelo to later historians), was the ʿĀmirid '' hajib'' (chief minister) of the Caliphate of Córdoba under Caliph Hisham II from October 1008, at a time when ...

* Sancho (bishop of Jaca) *

Sancho, Count of Provence Sancho (died 1223), also spelled Sanç or Sanche, was a Catalano-Aragonese nobleman and statesman, the youngest son of Queen Petronilla of Aragon and Count Raymond Berengar IV of Barcelona. He was at different times the count of Cerdanya (c.1 ...

* Sancho I of Astarac *

Sancho Alfónsez Sancho Alfónsez (or Adefónsez) (c. 1093 – 29 May 1108) was the only son of King Alfonso VI of Castile and León; his mother was the Moorish princess Zaida. Alfonso's heir from May 1107, he eventually co-ruled from Toledo. He predeceased his ...

* Sanciolo d'Aragona * Sancho of Aragon (archbishop of Toledo) * Sancho Manoel de Vilhena * Sancho Nunes de Barbosa *

Sancho Gracia Félix Ángel Sancho Gracia (27 September 1936 – 8 August 2012) was a Spanish motion picture and television actor. Career Born in Madrid, Gracia started his acting career in Montevideo, Uruguay, where he lived from 1947 until 1961. In Urugu ...

* Sancho Ramirez *

Sancho Ramírez of Viguera Sancho Ramírez (Basque: ''Antso Ramirez''; dead c. 1002) was the second King of Viguera, from 981 until his death c. 1002. He was the eldest son of Ramiro Garcés, the first king of Viguera, and also grandson of García Sánchez I of Pamplona. ...

Sancho Ramírez, Count of Ribagorza Sancho Ramírez (before 10431105/November 1110) was an illegitimate son of King Ramiro I of Aragon and Amuña, the firstborn and brother of his namesake who would inherit the throne and reign as Sancho Ramírez. Biographical sketch Even though h ...

Sancho Sánchez Sancho Sánchez (Floruit, fl. 1075–1127) was an important magnate of the Kingdom of Aragon in the late 11th and early 12th centuries, during the reigns of Sancho Ramírez, Peter I of Aragon and Navarre, Peter I and Alfonso the Battler, Alfonso I ...

Juan Bautista Sancho Joan Batista Sanxo, or Juan Bautista Sancho, (Artà, Majorca, Spain, 1772 or 1776 — Mission San Antonio de Padua, California, 1830) was a composer and scholar. He brought to California some of the first samples of 18th-century European music, in ...

Manuela Sancho Manuela Sancho y Bonafonte (1784–1863) was an Aragonese revolutionary who participated in the defense of Zaragoza during the Peninsula War. Biography Early life Manuela Sancho y Bonafonte was born in Plenas, a small town in the province of ...

* Charles Ignatius Sancho, 18th century British abolitionist, writer and composer. * 'Sancho', a nickname for philosopher

Max Stirner Johann Kaspar Schmidt (; 25 October 1806 – 26 June 1856), known professionally as Max Stirner (; ), was a German post-Hegelian philosopher, dealing mainly with the Hegelian notion of social alienation and self-consciousness. Stirner is oft ...

in Marx and Engel's ''The German Ideology''

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Other

* Brent Sancho, a Trinidadian footballer and politician *

Jadon Sancho Jadon Malik Sancho (born 25 March 2000) is an English professional Association football, footballer who plays as a Winger (association football), winger for Premier League club Chelsea F.C., Chelsea, on loan from Manchester United F.C., Manches ...

, an English footballer of Trinidadian descent *The

War of the Three Sanchos The War of the Three Sanchos () was a brief military conflict between three Spanish kingdoms in 1065–1067. The kingdoms were all ruled by Jiménez kings who were first cousins: Sancho II of Castile, Sancho IV of Navarre, and Sancho Ramíre ...

, an 11th century conflict between the three first cousins Jímenez kings: Sancho II of Castile, Sancho IV of Navarre, and Sancho Ramírez of Aragon, all grandsons of Sancho the Great in Northern Spain.

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