Sancho Alfónsez

Sancho Alfónsez (* around 1093; † May 29, 1108 before Uclés ) was the only son and designated heir to the throne of King Alfonso VI. of León-Castile from the House of Jiménez .

His mother Zaida was a member of the Moorish dynasty of Seville and was probably in her second marriage to Alfonso VI since 1100 at the latest since 1106. from León-Castile. She had converted to Christianity under the name "Elisabeth (Isabel)" and thus achieved all the dignities of a Christian queen. Sancho remained the only son along with a number of his father's legitimate and illegitimate daughters. On the occasion of a large court day in León in early May 1107, his father officially designated him as heir. As such (regnum electus patri factum) he signed a privilege granted by his father to the bishop of Santiago de Compostela to mint coins on May 14, 1107 .

On May 29, 1108, the young Sancho carried out a counter-attack on the city of Uclés , which had been occupied a few days earlier by Moorish troops of the Almoravids . In a disastrous battle he was killed along with other Castilian greats, including García Ordóñez . Alfonso VI the following year, shortly before his death, he made his eldest daughter Urraca the heiress.

literature

Bernard F. Reilly: The Kingdom of León-Castilla under King Alfonso VI 1065-1109. Princeton University Press, 1988. [1]

Remarks

↑ For the year of birth cf. Reilly (1988), §12, p. 248. On the date of death cf. Anales Toledanos I , in: España sagrada: Theatro geographico-historico de la iglesia de España , vol. 23 (1767), p. 386.
^ Chronicon Regum Legionensium, In: The World of El Cid: Chronicles of the Spanish Reconquest, ed. by Simon Barton and Richard Fletcher. Manchester University Press, 2000, p. 88.
↑ See Reilly (1988), §15, p. 324.
^ Antonio López Ferreiro: Historia de la Santa AM Iglesia de Santiago de Compostela. Vol. 3 (1900), Appendix No. 23, p. 70.
^ Chronicon Regum Legionensium, In: The World of El Cid: Chronicles of the Spanish Reconquest, ed. by Simon Barton and Richard Fletcher. Manchester University Press, 2000, p. 88.
↑ Ibn Challikan , Wafayāt al-aʿyān wa-anbāʾ abnāʾ az-zamān, In: The Image of Alfonso VI and His Spain in Arabic Historians, ed. by Tom Drury. Princeton University, 1974, p. 326.

Web link

ALFONSO VI 1072-1109 at Foundation for Medieval Genealogy.ac

personal data
SURNAME	Alfónsez, Sancho
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Heir to the throne of Castile and León
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1093
DATE OF DEATH	May 29, 1108
Place of death	Uclés

[1] For the year of birth cf. Reilly (1988), §12, p. 248. On the date of death cf. Anales Toledanos I , in: España sagrada: Theatro geographico-historico de la iglesia de España , vol. 23 (1767), p. 386.

[2] Chronicon Regum Legionensium, In: The World of El Cid: Chronicles of the Spanish Reconquest, ed. by Simon Barton and Richard Fletcher. Manchester University Press, 2000, p. 88.

[3] See Reilly (1988), §15, p. 324.

[4] Antonio López Ferreiro: Historia de la Santa AM Iglesia de Santiago de Compostela. Vol. 3 (1900), Appendix No. 23, p. 70.

[5] Chronicon Regum Legionensium, In: The World of El Cid: Chronicles of the Spanish Reconquest, ed. by Simon Barton and Richard Fletcher. Manchester University Press, 2000, p. 88.

[6] Ibn Challikan , Wafayāt al-aʿyān wa-anbāʾ abnāʾ az-zamān, In: The Image of Alfonso VI and His Spain in Arabic Historians, ed. by Tom Drury. Princeton University, 1974, p. 326.