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  RAUL N. LONGORIA'S GENEALOGY DATABASE
Spouse: Boleslaw III Wrymouth of Poland (Duke of Poland).
Boleslaw III Wrymouth of Poland (Duke of Poland).
Urraca of Castile (Countess of Castile) was born in 1081.
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 Sancho III of Navarre Information
Sancho was born around 985 (some sources give 970 or even 992 or later) to García IV the Tremulous and Jimena Fernández, daughter of the count of Cea on the Galician frontier.
This was the height of Sancho's rule which now extended from the borders of Galicia in the west to the county of Barcelona in the east and he styled himself rex Dei gratia Hispaniarum, or "By the grace of God, king of the Spains", and minted coins with the legend Imperator totius Hispaniae.
Sancho was married to Muña Mayor Sánchez, daughter of count Sancho I of Castile.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Castile and Aragon
Castile is a matter of dispute, but it is more than probably derived from the fortified castles (castillos), built first by the Romans to protect themselves from the Cantabrians whom they had not completely subjugated, and afterwards by the Christians to defend the northern regions which they had conquered from the Moors.
Old Castile, and is bounded on the north by the mountain chain of the Carpetano-Vetónica, on the south by the Sierra Morena, on the east by the mountains of
Castile is divided, that of the Tagus to the north, and that of the Guadiana to the south.
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 Encyclopedia: Sancho III of Castile
Sancho III of Castile (1134 – August 30, 1158), called el Deseado (The Desired), was King of Castile for one year, from 1157 to 1158.
He was the eldest son of King Alfonso VII of Castile and Berenguela of Barcelona.
Alfonso VII of Castile (March 1, 1104/5 - August 21, 1157), nicknamed the Emperor, was the king of Castile and Leon since 1126, son of Urraca of Castile and Count Raymond of Burgundy.
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 A Brief History of Castile and Leon.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-21)
Castile and Leon is a region which seems to have been peopled by Iberians, Celts and Ligures, and was not disturbed by the Phoenicians, Greek or Carthaginian invasions.
With Fernan Gonzalez (950), Castile emerged as a hereditary County, still as a vassal to Leon, until in 1029 it came into the possession of Sancho III of Navarre and, on his death, was passed on to his son Ferdinand I, the first king of Castile.
The last time the personality of the old kingdom of Castile seemed to assert itself in all its vigour was at the beginning of the 16th century with the War of the 'Comuneros' which, although going beyond the geographical confines of Castile itself, had its principal centres there.
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 castileleon
Old Castile, which derived its name from the large number of castles built on its frontier with the Moors, was under the suzerainty of the kings of Asturias and Leon from the 8th century to 1035, when Ferdinand I established a unified kingdom.
Ferdinand III (of Castile and León), called The Saint (1199-1252), king of Castile (1217-52) and of León (1230-52); he was the son of King Alfonso IX of León and Castile.
Henry II (of Castile and León) (1333?-79), known as Henry (Enrique) of Trastamara, king of Castile and León (1369-79), born in Seville.
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 Alfonso X of Castile Summary
The eldest son of Ferdinand III and Beatrice of Swabia, Alfonso was born in Toledo on Nov. 23, 1221.
Alfonso was the eldest son of Ferdinand III of Castile and Isabella of Swabia.
Alfonso's second son, Sancho, claimed to be the new heir, in preference to the children of Ferdinand de la Cerda, basing his claim on an old Castilian custom, that of proximity of blood and agnatic seniority.
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 Maximilian Genealogy Master Database 2000 - pafg60 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Sancho III of CASTILE [Parents] was born 1134.
Sancho married Blanche of NAVARRE Princess on 30 Jan 1151 in Calahorra.
Blanche married Sancho III of CASTILE on 30 Jan 1151 in Calahorra.
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 New Catholic Dictionary: Castile   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-21)
Sancho the Great of Navarre took possession of Castile on the death of Sancho Garcia's son, and his son Ferdinand I united Leon and Castile which were later separated and reunited under Alfonso VI whose daughter Urraca became first queen.
Alfonso VIII (1158-1214) definitely freed New Castile from the Moslem yoke in the battle of Las Navas de Tolosa (1212), commemorated annually by the Church in Spain on 16 July as "El Triumfo de la Santa Cruz" (The Triumph of the Holy Cross).
Castile and Leon were united decisively under Saint Ferdinand III (1219-1252) who regained from the Moors all but the kingdom of Granada.
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 ipedia.com: Sancho III of Navarre Article
Sancho III Jimeno of Navarre was born to García the Tremulous of Pamplona and Jimena Fernández.
With his nephew, king Alfonso V of Leon and Count García Sánchez of Castile, he led a combined attack against Al-Mansur Ibn Abi Aamir (died 1002; "Almanzor" among the Christians), conquering further territories in the south.
This was the height of his rule which extended from the borders of Galicia in the west to the county of Barcelona in the east and he styled himself Rex Hispaniarum, "King of the Spains".
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 Untitled Document
Sancho IV of Castile (Nieto, 1994), king in the midst of a complex war of succession, also had to adopt a hostile attitude to France.
Alfonso XI didn’t divert troops to the Portuguese border: the intervention of troops from the bishopric of Jaén and the Council of Seville was enough to defeat the Portuguese at Villanueva de Barcarrota and force Alfonso IV to raise his siege of Jaén.
Despite the desire for peace, the tensions occurring in Castile from 1418 on, with the irruption of the Princes of Aragon in Castilian politics, again raised difficulties for the ratification of the treaty.
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 Sancho III of Navarre -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-21)
Sancho III of (additional info and facts about Navarre) Navarre (c.
Having gone further than any previous Christian monarchs in uniting the principalities of (A parliamentary monarchy in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula; a former colonial power) Spain, his life's work was undone, from a modern point-of-view, when he divided his domains shortly before his death, like any feudal lord, to provide for his sons.
Sancho was married to Muña Mayor Sánchez, daughter of count Sancho I of Castile.
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 Ancestors of Carl G. Lawrence, Jr. - Person Page 10   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-21)
Alfonso VII of Castile & Leon was the son of Raymond of Burgundy and Urraca of Castile & Leon.
Sancho III of Castile (Desired) was the son of Alfonso VII of Castile & Leon and Berengaria Raimundo de Barcelona.
Sancho VI of Navarre (the Wise) was the son of Garcia Ramirez VI of Navarre (the Restorer) and Margaret de l'Aigle.
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 Sancho III - Encyclopedia.com
Sancho III or Sancho the Great, c.970-1035, king of Navarre (1000-1035).
After conquering (c.1015-25) the territories of Sobrarbe and Ribagorza from the Moors, he took possession of Castile, Vizcaya, and Álava (1028) as his wife's inheritance from her deceased brother, the count of Castile, for whom he had been protector since 1017.
Navarre passed to García; Castile and Aragón, made into kingdoms, went respectively to Ferdinand I and Ramiro I ; Sobrarbe and Ribagorza, joined as a separate kingdom, were given to Gonzalo.
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 Chapter 4: A History of Spain and Portugal
All of Castile proper was willed to his elder son, who in 1157 became Sancho III of Castile, while the lands of León were granted to a younger son, crowned Fernando II of León.
The crowns of Castile and León were finally reunited in 1230 under Fernando III, son of Alfonso IX of León and of the daughter of Alfonso VIII of Castile.
Castile's twelfth-century economic stagnation was overcome in large measure by the stimulus of the great thirteenth-century reconquest and the subsequent expansion of the wool export trade.
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 29th Generation
Alfonso Ramírez VII, King of Leon and Castile "Alfonso The Emperor" was born circa 1104.
He was the king of Leon and Castile from 1126 to 1157, son of Raymond of Burgundy and the grandson of Alfonso VI, whose imperial title he assumed.
Sancho de Castilla III, King of Castile "The Desired" was born circa 1134.
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 Churchyard/Orr Family Museum (Genealogy) -- Overview Chart of Lineal Ancestors of King Edward III of England and ...
The following ancestry (pedigree) overview charts for the lineal ancestors of the children of Edward III of England and Philippa of Hainault (going back 16 generations or less) were generated from data and software supplied by Randy Wilson, with some additional fix-ups.
`- Leonor (Eleanor) Princess of CASTILE (1244-1290)
`- Blanca Princess of CASTILE (1188-1252) `- Blanche D'ARTOIS (1250-1302)
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 COUNTS & KINGS OF CASTILE
He united deffinitively the kingdoms of Castile and León, conquered the lands of Lower Andalusia (cities of Jaen, Cordoba and Seville), submitted the kingdom of Murcia to his son Alfonso, and the kingdom of Granada became his vassal.
Enrique had backed his daughter Juana "la Beltraneja", but the nobility did not believe her paternity (the nickname of Enrique means "the Impotent" and the origin of the nickname of Juana is because the nobility believed she was daughter of Beltrán de la Cueva, favourit of the king).
Queen of Castile, León, Aragon, Sicily, Toledo, Valencia, Galicia, Majorca, Seville, Sardinia, Cordoba, Corsica, Murcia, Jaén, the Algarves, Algeciras, and Gibraltar; countess of Barcelona; lady of Biscay and Molina; duchess of Athens and Neopatras; countess of Roussillon and Cerdagne; marchioness of Oristano and Gociano.
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 Ferdinand III of Castile - IBWiki
He was the son of Alfonso IX and Berenguela of Castile, daughter of Alfonso VIII.
Infante Sancho, Archbishop of Toledo and Seville (1233-1261)
Eleanor of Castile (1246-1290), wife of King Edward I of England.
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 The Reconquest.
However, on his death, he leaves Navarre to his son Garcia III, Castile to Fernando I, and Aragon, Sobrarbe and Ribagorza to Ramiro I. 1035 to 1063: Fernando I conquers Coimbra and obliges the Muslims of Toledo, Seville and Badajoz to pay him tribute.
Alfonso VIII of Castile, helped by Sancho VIII of Navarre, Pedro II of Aragon and some troops from Portugal and Leon, is victorious in the battle of Las Navas de Tolosa.
1469: Isabel I of Castile and Fernando II of Aragon are married, thus cunsummating the unity of Spain.
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In a short series of annals dating from Fernando's reign Bermudo III was remembered as 'a fighter valiant in battle'; of Fernando the annalist merely made a laconic note of the date of his coronation.
Sancho in his turn was dethroned by the third brother, [32] Alfonso, in October 1072, and it was thus the latter who reunited all the dominions of his father and as Alfonso VI ruled over a kingdom of León, Castile and Galicia from then until his death in 1109.
Sancho el Mayor's initiative had been taken further by his son Fernando I, who at some date between 1053 and his death in 1065 had bound himself to pay an annual census to the monks of Cluny, set at the very considerable sum of 1,000 gold pieces, in return for their intercession.
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 Section TJ: Descendants of Anscarius of Ivrea, Margrave of Ivrea
), Queen of Castile, was born in 1135, and died circa 1158 in Castile.
), Queen of Castile, was born in 1119, and died in 1061.
), Queen of Castile, was born in 1181 in Castile, and died in 1245 in Castile.
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 Afonso III of Portugal Summary
Although this marriage brought Alfonso III into disfavor with the Church, Beatrice was received by the Portuguese with all the honors of a queen.
He was the second son of King Afonso II of Portugal and his wife, Urraca of Castile; he succeeded his brother, King Sancho II of Portugal in 1247.
Since Sancho was not a popular king, the order was not hard to enforce; he was exiled to Castile and Afonso III became king in 1247.
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 Monarchs of Castile and Leon - IBWiki
In 1230, King Ferdinand III of Castile was crowned as king of Leon.
Both Alfonso of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon, continued their crusade against the Moors, and in 1492 the Kingdom of Granada was decisively defeated, and both kings expeled the Jews from their kingdoms.
In Castile, Sancho VI was suceded by his nephew Sancho VII, then was Juan IV and Juan V and Alfonso XIV.
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 Timeline of the Spanish Royal Family
Sancho III of Navarre makes his son Fernando (Ferdinand) ruler of the County of Castilla (Castile).
On the death of Sancho III of Navarre, his will, which calls for his domains to be divided among his sons, is carried out.
On 26 November, Isabella of Castile dies, leaving the kingdom of Castile to her daughter, Juana “La Loca” (Joan “The Mad”) under a regency headed by Joan’s husband, Philip of Austria (as Philip I of Castile).
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 CASTILE
URRACA de Navarra, daughter of GARCÍA III Sánchez King of Navarre and his second wife Teresa de León (-12 Jul 1041).  She is not named in any of the documents in the collection relating to the county of Castile
SANCHO García de Castilla, son of GARCÍA I Fernández Conde de Castilla and his wife Ava de Ribagorza ([965]-5 Feb 1017, bur San Salvador de Oña).  "Sancio Garsea…" witnessed the 24 Nov 978 document recording the consecration of his supposed sister Urraca at the monastery of Covarrubias
A.      KINGS of CASTILE and LEON 1035-1217, JIMENA Dynasty (House of the Kings of NAVARRE)
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 Sancho III of Castile - Definition, explanation
Sancho III of Castile (1134 – August 30, 1158), called el Deseado (The Desired), was King of Castile for one year, from 1157 to 1158.
He was the eldest son of King Alfonso VII of Castile and Berenguela of Barcelona.
He left an only son and heir, Alfonso VIII of Castile, by his wife Blanca of Navarre.
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 30TH GENERATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-21)
Berenguela of BARCELONA Queen of Leon was born in 1108 in Barcelona, Spain - dtr of Ramon IV Conde de Barcelona.
She died in 1149 in Castile - Queen of Alfonso VII of Leon.
Constantia of CASTILE Queen of France was born about 1130 in Castile - dtr of Alfonso VII.
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