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Birth:          21 Sep 1154 Toledo, Castile
Death:          9 Nov 1208 Monasterio de Jaen, Jaen, Spain

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sancha_of_Castile,_Queen_of_Aragon
Sancha of Castile (21 September 1154/5 – 9 November 1208) was the only surviving 
child of King Alfonso VII of Castile by his second wife, Richeza of Poland. On January 
18, 1174, she married King Alfonso II of Aragon at Zaragoza; they had at least eight 
children who survived into adulthood.

A patroness of troubadours such as Giraud de Calanson and Peire Raymond, the 
queen became involved in a legal dispute with her husband concerning properties 
which formed part of her dower estates. In 1177 she entered the county of Ribagorza 
and took forcible possession of various castles and fortresses which had belonged to 
the crown there.

After her husband died at Perpignan in 1196, Sancha was relegated to the 
background of political affairs by her son Peter II. She retired from court, withdrawing 
to the convent for noble ladies, the Monastery of Santa María de Sigena, at Sigena, 
which she had founded. There she assumed the cross of the Order of St John of 
Jerusalem which she wore until the end of her life. The queen mother entertained her 
widowed daughter Constance at Sijena prior to her leaving Aragon to marry Emperor 
Frederick II in 1208. She died soon afterwards, aged fifty-four, and was interred in 
front of the high altar of her foundation at Sigena; her tomb is still to be seen.

Issue[edit]
Peter II (1174/76 – 14 September 1213), King of Aragon and Lord of Montpellier.
Constance (1179 – 23 June 1222), married firstly King Imre of Hungary and secondly 
Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor.
Alfonso II (1180 – February 1209), Count of Provence, Millau and Razès.
Eleanor (1182 – February 1226), married Count Raymond VI of Toulouse.
Ramon Berenguer (ca. 1183/85 – died young).
Sancha (1186 – aft. 1241), married Count Raymond VII of Toulouse, in March 1211
Ferdinand (1190 – 1249), cistercian monk, Abbot of Montearagón.
Dulcia (1192 – ?), a nun at Sijena.

Parents
____ Alfonso VII "Pierre-Raimund" (1 Mar 1105 - 21 Aug 1157)
OF POLAND (OF SILICIA) Richeza (Richilde) (Ryksa) (ABT 1138 - 16 Jun 1185)

Siblings
____ Sancha (Sanchia) (21 Sep 1154 - 9 Nov 1208)

Marriage To ____ Alfonso II "The Chaste" (Mar 1157 - 25 Apr 1196)
    m. 18 Jan 1174 Zaragoza, Spain his 2d

Notes

Parents
____ Raymond (Ramon) Berenguer IV (1113 - 6 Aug 1162)
OF ARAGON Petronilla (Petronel) I (1136 - 15 Oct 1173)

Children by ____ Alfonso II "The Chaste" Mar 1157 - 25 Apr 1196
OF ARAGON Alfonso II (1174 - Feb 1209)
____ Pedro II "the Catholic" (ABT 1175 - 14 Sep 1213)

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