Sancho (Castilla) de Castilla y León (1258 - 1295)

Born 12 May 1258 in Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain

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Died 25 Apr 1295 at age 36 in Toledo, New Castile

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Biography

Sancho IV was King of Castile and León from the year 1284 to his death. He was known as "el Bravo" (the Brave). He was born on May 12, 1258, and died, of tuberculosis, in Toledo, April 25, 1295. He was the second son of King Alfonso X el Sabio and Doña Violante of Aragon. His elder brother, Ferdinand de la Cerda, died in November 1275, and in 1282 Sancho assembled a coalition of nobles to declare for him against Ferdinand's son Alfonso, then took control of the kingdom when Alfonso X died in 1284. This was all against the wishes of their father, but Sancho was crowned in Toledo nevertheless.

Family/Children

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Sancho married Maria de Molina in 1282, but at first, their marriage did not have the necessary papal dispensation for two reasons: First, they had a distant blood relation, and second, Sancho had been betrothed as an infant to a rich Catalan heiress named Guillerma Moncada. They had the following children:

• Isabella (1283–1328). Married first James II of Aragon and secondly John III, Duke of Brittany.
• Ferdinand IV of Castile (1285–1312). Married Constance of Portugal.
• Alfonso (1286–1291)
• Henry (1288–1299)
• Peter (1290–1319) married Maria daughter of James II of Aragon
• Philip (1292–1327). Married his cousin Margarita de la Cerda, daughter of Alfonso de la Cerda (1270-1333).[1]
• Beatrice (1293–1359). Married Afonso IV of Portugal.

He had three illegitimate children:

By Maria De Menezes (d. Toro), wife of Juan García, Lord of Ucero:

• Violante Sánchez (died bef. 1327), who held the dowry of Ucero as its lady, married in 1293 Fernando Rodríguez de Castro, Lord of Lemos.[2]
• Teresa Sánchez, who married Juan Alfonso Téllez de Meneses (died 5 May 1304), a Castilian nobleman, 4th Lord of Alburquerque, who became the 1st Count of Barcelos and was the Mordomo Mor (high steward) of King Denis I of Portugal, and had female issue. After the death of her first husband, she married Ruy Gil de Villalobos, with whom she had one daughter.

By another woman whose name is unknown, he had:

• Alfonso Sánchez, who married, as his second wife, María Díaz de Salcedo, but died without issue.

Sources

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sancho_IV_of_Castile

• Royal Ancestry by Douglas Richardson Vol. II. p. 116