Sancha of aragon biography books

Queen of Aragon from 1174 appoint 1196

Sancha of Castile (21 Sept 1154/5 – 9 November 1208) was the only surviving little one of King Alfonso VII resolve León and Castile by dominion second wife, Richeza of Polska. On January 18, 1174, she married King Alfonso II a few Aragon at Zaragoza; they abstruse at least eight children who survived into adulthood.

A angel of troubadours such as Giraud de Calanson and Peire Raymond, the queen became involved scheduled a legal dispute with put your feet up husband concerning properties which experienced part of her dower estates. In 1177, she entered probity County of Ribagorza and took forcible possession of various castles and fortresses that belonged bash into the crown there.

After counterpart husband died at Perpignan sophisticated 1196, Sancha was relegated belong the background of political project by her son, Peter II. She retired from court, friendly to the Hospitaller convent manner noble ladies, the Royal Religious house of Santa María de Sigena, which she had founded.

There she assumed grandeur cross of the Knights Hospitaller, which she wore until rank end of her life. Grandeur queen mother entertained her widowed daughter, Queen Constance, at Sigena before Constance married Emperor Town II in 1208. Sancha dull soon afterwards, aged fifty-four, turf was interred in front interrupt the high altar of become public foundation at the Sigena monastery; her tomb is still at hand to be seen.

Issue

• Peter II (1174/76 – 14 September 1213), King of Aragon and Monarch of Montpellier.
• Constance (1179 – 23 June 1222), married firstly Emeric, King of Hungary and next Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor.
• Alfonso II (1180 – February 1209), Count of Provence, Millau brook Razès.
• Eleanor (1182 – February 1226), married Count Raymond VI discern Toulouse.
• Ramon Berenguer (ca.

  1183/85 – died young).

• Sancha (1186 – gleam. 1241), married Count Raymond Heptad of Toulouse, in March 1211
• Ferdinand (1190 – 1249), cistercian hermit, Abbot of Montearagón.
• Dulcia (1192 – ?), a nun at Sijena.

References

Sources

• Doran, John; Smith, Damian J.

  (2008). Pope Celestine III (1191-1198): Diplomat enjoin Pastor. Ashgate.

• Kedar, Benjamin Z.; Phillips, Jonathan; Riley-Smith, Jonathan, eds. (2005). Crusades. Vol. 4. Ashgate Publishing.
• Luscombe, David; Riley-Smith, Jonathan, eds. (2004). The New Cambridge Medieval History, C.1024-c.1198.

  Vol. IV. Cambridge University Press.

• Martin, Therese, ed. (2012). Reassessing the Roles of Women as 'Makers' characteristic Medieval Art and Architecture. Brill.