Sancho of Aragon

Sancho of Aragón ( Catalan Sanç d'Aragó ; * around 1250; † October 21, 1275 at Martos ) was an Aragonese infant and from 1266 to 1275 an Archbishop of Toledo from the House of Barcelona . He was a son of King James I of Aragon and the Yolanda of Hungary .

Sancho was a member of the Mercedarian Order and was elected Archbishop of Toledo in 1266. When the Merinids under Abu Yusuf Yaqub translated from Africa to Spain in 1275 , Sancho actively engaged in the fight against this invasion with an army of knights and communal militia troops. Pope Gregory X. endowed his campaign with all the indulgences of a crusade . When Sancho in Jaén learned of a raid by the Nasrid allied with the Merinids at the castle of Martos , which was under the order of the Calatrava , he decided to fight the Nasrids. The arrival of a reinforcement army under Lope Díaz III. de Haro he did not want to wait any longer, because he did not intend to share the supposedly certain victory with him. With Martos, however, Sancho was no match for the numerically clearly superior Nasrids and was captured by them after his defeat. When the Nasrids could not agree on which Moorish ruler to hand him over to, they beheaded him and cut off his hand with the bishop's ring. Don Lope Díaz, who appeared on the battlefield a day later, was able to negotiate the surrender of Sancho's body, including head and hand, which were buried together in the Cathedral of Toledo .

literature

Ramón Gonzálvez Ruíz: El Infante Sancho de Aragón, arzobispo de Toledo (1266-1275) , in: Escritos del vedat , Vol. 7 (1977), pp. 97-121.

Remarks

↑ On the date of death see Anales Toledanos III , in: España sagrada: Theatro geographico-historico de la iglesia de España , vol. 23 (1767), p. 419.
↑ Fernán Sánchez de Valladolid : Crónica de Alfonso X , §63, ed. by Shelby G. Thacker and José Escobar, in: The Chronicle of Alfonso X , pp. 205-208. University Press of Kentucky, 2002.

predecessor	Office	successor
Domingo Pascual	Archbishop of Toledo 1266–1275	Fernando Rodríguez de Covarrubias

personal data
SURNAME	Sancho of Aragon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Sanç d'Aragó
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Archbishop of Toledo
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1250
DATE OF DEATH	October 21, 1275
Place of death	Martos

[1] On the date of death see Anales Toledanos III , in: España sagrada: Theatro geographico-historico de la iglesia de España , vol. 23 (1767), p. 419.

[2] Fernán Sánchez de Valladolid : Crónica de Alfonso X , §63, ed. by Shelby G. Thacker and José Escobar, in: The Chronicle of Alfonso X , pp. 205-208. University Press of Kentucky, 2002.