Sancha of León

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Sancha of León (* around 1013, † November 27, 1067 ) was a queen of León in the 11th century. She was a daughter of King Alfonso V of León and Elvira Mendes; her brother was King Bermudo III. from León .

Ferdinand I and Sancha, shown in a miniature from the 11th century

Life

After the death of her father in 1028, Sancha was betrothed to Count García Sánchez of Castile . But he was murdered in 1029 shortly after his arrival in León a few days before the wedding. The murdered man's brother-in-law, King Sancho III, then took over. von Navarre , the rule in Castile, put his younger son Ferdinand there as count and at the same time forced his marriage to Sancha. Regardless of the family ties thus established, Sancho III took action. of Navarre in 1034 Bermudo III. and drove him from León to Galicia . After the Navarre's death in 1035, Bermudo attempted to retake León, but Ferdinand defeated and killed him in 1037 at the Battle of Tamarón . This made Sancha the last member of the Asturian royal family and sole heir to the Asturian-Galician-Leonese Empire, which through their marriage now fell to the Navarres house of Jiménez .

Her marriage to Ferdinand I of León-Castile gave birth to five children, among whom the empire was divided up after Ferdinand's death in 1065. After Sancha's death in 1067, there was a power struggle among the children over the entire inheritance, from which Alfonso VI. 1072 emerged victorious, thus reuniting the empire of his parents. Sancha was buried in the San Isidoro Abbey of León .

The children of Sancha and Ferdinand I were:

  • Urraca (* before 1037, † 1103), "Queen" of Zamora .
  • Sancho II († 1072), King of Castile.
  • Alfonso VI (1037–1109), King of León and from 1072 also King of Castile and Galicia.
  • Elvira († 1099), mistress of Toro .
  • García (1042-1090), King of Galicia.

literature

  • Justo Pérez de Urbel: El condado de Castilla. Madrid, 1969.
  • Bernard F. Reilly: The Kingdom of León-Castilla under Queen Urraca 1109-1126. Princeton University Press, 1982 ( online ).
  • Bernard F. Reilly: The Kingdom of León-Castilla under King Alfonso VI 1065-1109. Princeton University Press, 1988 ( online ).

Remarks

  1. ↑ The date of death can be found in the epitaph of Sancha's grave in San Isidoro de León. See Reilly (1988), §2, p. 4, note 27.
  2. ↑ Historia Silense, ed. by Simon Barton and Richard Fletcher in: The World of El Cid: Chronicles of the Spanish Reconquest. Manchester University Press, 2000, §73, p. 39. Chronicon Regum Legionensium , ed. by Simon Barton and Richard Fletcher in: The World of El Cid: Chronicles of the Spanish Reconquest. Manchester University Press, 2000, p. 80.
  3. ↑ Chronicon Burgense, ed. by Enríque Flórez in: España Sagrada. Vol. 23 (1767), p. 308. Cf. Reilly (1982), §1, p. 7 and (1988), §1, p. 7.
  4. ↑ Chronicon Regum Legionensium, ed. by Simon Barton and Richard Fletcher in: The World of El Cid: Chronicles of the Spanish Reconquest. Manchester University Press, 2000, p. 80.
  5. ↑ See Reilly (1988), §1, p. 8.
  6. ↑ Chronicon Regum Legionensium, ed. by Simon Barton and Richard Fletcher in: The World of El Cid: Chronicles of the Spanish Reconquest. Manchester University Press, 2000, p. 81. See Reilly (1988), §1, p. 8.
  7. ↑ Historia Silense, ed. by Simon Barton and Richard Fletcher in: The World of El Cid: Chronicles of the Spanish Reconquest. Manchester University Press, 2000, §81, p. 45. Crónica del Obispo Don Pelayo, ed. by Benito Sánchez Alonso (1924), p. 73.
personal data
SURNAME Sancha of León
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Queen of León
DATE OF BIRTH 11th century
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 1067