Queen Sancha Leon CASTILE

   Other names for Sancha were CASTILE Queen, LEON Princess and Sanchia.

   Ancestral File Number: 9HMK-FV. User ID: 302556037.

   General Notes:

Princess of LEON, Queen of CASTILE.

BOOKS
Kings and Queens of Europe, Genealogical Chart, Anne Taute and Romilly Squire, Taute, 1989: "Fernando I, Son of Sancho III King of Navarre and Castilla's 2nd Marriage, King of Castilla 1035-1065, King of Leon 1038/1039-1065, Mar Sancha Daughter of Alfonso V King of Leon Died 1067."

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1981, Macropaedia, Vol I, p 484, Alfonso VI of Castile and Leon: "Alfonso [VI] was born sometime before June 1040, the second son of King Ferdinand I and his wife Sanchia...On his death in 1065, Ferdinand left to Alfonso the kingdom of Leon..."
Vol IV, p96, Ferdinand I the Great: "Born 1016/1018, Died 27 Dec 1065 Leon Spain, King of Castile and Leon and a son of Sancho III Garces of Navarre.He became king of a truncated Castile on his father's death in 1035. He had married Sancha, sister and heiress of Bermudo III of Leon, and when Bermudo was killed at Tamaron in 1037, fighting against the Castilians, Ferdinand, despite opposition, seized the Leonese throne and was crowned emperor at Leon in 1039. He reorganized the administration of Leon, particularly by reducing the hereditary powers of the magnates..."

ANCESTRAL FILE
Ancestral File Ver 4.11 9HMK-FV Born Abt 1015.

   Marriage Information:

Sancha married King Ferdinand CASTILE, I, son of King Sancho Aragon NAVARRE, III and Princess Nunnia CASTILE, in 1033. (King Ferdinand CASTILE, I was born about 1004-1018 in , Castile, Spain and died on 27 Dec 1065 in , Leon, Spain.)