Sancha de León

Events

Date of Birth: about 1018.

Place of Birth: unknown.

The date is given by Viñayo González. Salazar y Acha (p. 68) gives about 1014.

Date of Death: 7 November 1067.

Place of Death: León.

The date is given by Reilly (p. 58) and by Salazar y Acha (p. 68). Viñayo González gives 8 November.

Relationships

Father: Alfonso V, king of León.

This relationship is given by Martínez Díez (p. 120), by Salazar y Acha (p. 68), and by Viñayo González.

Mother: Elvira Menéndez.

This relationship is given by Martínez Díez (p. 120), by Salazar y Acha (p. 68), and by Viñayo González.

Spouse: Fernando I “el Magno”, king of León.

This relationship is given by Martínez Díez (p. 120), by Salazar y Acha (p. 68), and by Viñayo González.

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Urraca (born about 1035 - died 20 September 1101).

Sancho II (about 1037 - 7 October 1072), king of Castile, married Alberta.

Elvira (born about 1039 - died 10 November 1101).

Alfonso VI (about 1037 - 1 July 1109), king of León, king of Castile, married (1) Agnès d’Aquitaine; married (2) Constance de Bourgogne; married (3) Berta; married (4) Isabel; married (5) Zaïda; married (6) Beatrix.

García (about 1041 - 22 March 1090), king of Galicia.

References

Martínez Díez, Gonzalo. Sancho III el Mayor: rey de Pamplona, Rex Ibericus. (Madrid: 2007).

Reilly, Bernard F. The Kingdom of León-Castilla under King Alfonso VI, 1065-1109 (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1988).

Salazar y Acha, Jaime de. Las dinastías reales de España en la Edad Media. (Real Academia de la Historia, 2021).

Viñayo González, Antonio. "Sancha Alfónsez" in Diccionario Biográfico electrónico (Real Academia de la Historia).

Online Biographies

Sancha Alfónsez (Diccionario Biográfico electrónico; Real Academia de la Historia)