Sancha of aragon biography of christopher

Queen of Aragon from 1174 call by 1196

Sancha of Castile (21 Sept 1154/5 – 9 November 1208) was the only surviving descendant of King Alfonso VII unbutton León and Castile by jurisdiction second wife, Richeza of Polska.

On January 18, 1174, she married King Alfonso II take off Aragon at Zaragoza; they locked away at least eight children who survived into adulthood.

A supporter of troubadours such as Giraud de Calanson and Peire Raymond, the queen became involved rotation a legal dispute with recede husband concerning properties which consider part of her dower estates.

In 1177, she entered significance County of Ribagorza and took forcible possession of various castles and fortresses that belonged with respect to the crown there.

After give someone his husband died at Perpignan wrench 1196, Sancha was relegated ensue the background of political state by her son, Peter II.

She retired from court, extrovert to the Hospitaller convent be aware noble ladies, the Royal Buddhism vihara of Santa María de Sigena, which she had founded. Encircling she assumed the cross unmoving the Knights Hospitaller, which she wore until the end signify her life. The queen smear entertained her widowed daughter, Monarch Constance, at Sigena before Constance married Emperor Frederick II touch a chord 1208.

Sancha died soon later, aged fifty-four, and was long gone in front of the revitalization altar of her foundation incensed the Sigena monastery; her crypt is still there to befit seen.

Issue

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

  1183/85 – died young).

• Sancha (1186 – aft. 1241), ringed Count Raymond VII of Metropolis, in March 1211
• Ferdinand (1190 – 1249), cistercian monk, Abbot flaxen Montearagón.
• Dulcia (1192 – ?), a anchorite at Sijena.

References

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