The name Sancho is an
Iberian name of
Basque origin (Santxo, Santzo, Santso, Antzo, Sans). Sancho stems from the
Latin name
Sanctius.
[Eichler, Ernst; Hilty, Gerold; Löffler, Heinrich; Steger, Hugo; Zgusta, Ladislav: ''Namenforschung/Name Studies/Les noms propres'', Walter de Gruyter, 1 January 1995, p. 74]
Online
/ref> The feminine form is Sancha and the common patronymic is Sánchez.
Outside the Spanish-speaking world, the name is especially associated with the literary character Sancho Panza.
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
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
* Sancho (bishop of Jaca)
* Sancho, Count of Provence
* Sancho I of Astarac
*Sancho Alfónsez
Sancho Alfónsez (or Adefónsez) (ca. 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
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* Sancho Gracia
*Sancho Ramirez
The name Sancho is an Iberian name of Basque origin (Santxo, Santzo, Santso, Antzo, Sans). Sancho stems from the Latin name Sanctius.Eichler, Ernst; Hilty, Gerold; Löffler, Heinrich; Steger, Hugo; Zgusta, Ladislav: ''Namenforschung/Name Studies/ ...
* Sancho Ramírez of Viguera
* Sancho Ramírez, Count of Ribagorza
*Sancho Sánchez
Sancho Sánchez ( 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 and Alfonso I. He was governor of the important Navarrese tenancies of ...
* Jadon Sancho
*Juan Bautista Sancho
Joan Batista Sanxo, or Juan Bautista Sancho, composer and scholar (Artà, Majorca, Spain, 1772 or 1776 — Mission San Antonio de Padua, California, 1830). He brought to California some of the first samples of 18th-century European music, including ...
* Ignatius Sancho, 18th century British composer, actor, and writer.
* 'Sancho', a nickname for philosopher Max Stirner in Marx and Engel's ''The German Ideology''
Fictional
* Sancho Panza
Other
*Brent Sancho
Brent Sancho CM (born 13 March 1977) is a Trinidadian former professional football player and politician. In February 2015, he became the Minister of Sports for his home country, Trinidad and Tobago.
Club career
College
Born in Port of Spa ...
, a Trinidadian footballer and politician
*Charles Ignatius Sancho
Charles Ignatius Sancho ( – 14 December 1780) was a British abolitionist, writer and composer. Born on a slave ship in the Atlantic, Sancho was sold into slavery in the Spanish colony of New Granada. After his parents died, Sancho's owner too ...
, a British abolitionist, writer and composer
A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music.
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* Jadon Sancho, an English footballer
*The War of the Three Sanchos
The War of the Three Sanchos ( es, Guerra de los Tres 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 o ...
, 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.
References
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