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The name Sancho (Spanish:) is an Iberian name of Basque origin (Santxo, Santzo, Santso, Antzo, Sans). [1] Sancho stems from the Latin name Sanctius. [2] Feminine forms of the name are Sancha, Sancia, and Sanchia (Spanish:), and the common patronymic is Sánchez and Sanches.
The Jiménez dynasty, alternatively called the Jimena, the Sancha, the Banu Sancho, the Abarca or the Banu Abarca, [1] was a medieval ruling family which, beginning in the 9th century, eventually grew to control the royal houses of several kingdoms on the Iberian Peninsula during the 11th and 12th centuries, namely the Kingdoms of Navarre, Aragon, Castile, León and Galicia as well as of other ...
Sancha is a given name, the feminine version of the Spanish Sancho. Sanchia, Sancia, and Santina are variant feminine forms. [1] [2] People named Sancha include: Sancha, Lady of Alenquer (1180–1279), feudal Lady of Alenquer; Sancha of Aragon (1478–1506), Aragonese aristocrat; Sancha of Aragon (died 1097), Aragonese princess and countess of ...
[2] [3] Another source noted forms in use during the medieval era included Science, Sciencia, Scientia, and Senses. [ 4 ] French feminine variants Saincte, Sainte, Saintes, Seincte, Xainte, Xaintes, and diminutives Sancelina, Sanceline, Saintine , and Xaintine were also in use as given names in the French-speaking world in the 1500s.
Sancia of Majorca (c. 1281 – 28 July 1345), also known as Sancha, was Queen of Naples from 1309 until 1343 as the wife of Robert the Wise. She served as regent of Naples during the minority of her stepgrandaughter, Joanna I of Naples , from 1343 until 1344.
Sancha of Castile (21 September 1154/5 – 9 November 1208) was the only surviving child of King Alfonso VII of León and Castile by his second wife, Richeza of Poland. [1] On January 18, 1174, she married King Alfonso II of Aragon at Zaragoza ; [ 2 ] they had at least eight children who survived into adulthood.
Sancha of León (1191/2 – before 1243) was briefly suo jure Queen of León, reigning alongside her younger sister, Dulce.The eldest child and daughter of Alfonso IX of León by his first wife, Teresa of Portugal, Sancha was made co-heiress following the death of one of her younger brothers and the accession to the throne of Castile of the other.
Sancha of Castile (c. 1139 –5 August 1177 or 1179) was daughter of Alfonso VII of León and Castile and his first wife Berengaria of Barcelona. Sancha was the fifth child of seven born to her parents. On 20 July 1153, Sancha married Sancho VI of Navarre. He is responsible for bringing his kingdom into the political orbit of Europe.