Sancho III of Castile
| Sancho III | |
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.png) Sancho III of Castile in the Castilian manuscript Compendium of Chronicles of Kings (...) (c. 1312-1325). Currently located at the National Library of Spain | |
| King of Castile and Toledo | |
| Reign | 21 August 1157 – 31 August 1158 |
| Predecessor | Alfonso VII |
| Successor | Alfonso VIII |
| Born | c. 1134 Toledo |
| Died | 31 August 1158 (aged 23–24) Toledo |
| Burial | |
| Consort | Blanche of Navarre |
| Issue | Alfonso VIII of Castile Infante Garcia |
| House | Castilian House of Ivrea |
| Father | Alfonso VII of León and Castile |
| Mother | Berengaria of Barcelona |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Sancho III (c. 1134 – 31 August 1158), called the Desired (el Deseado),[a] was King of Castile and Toledo for one year, from 1157 to 1158. He was the son of Alfonso VII of León and Castile and his wife Berengaria of Barcelona, and was succeeded by his son Alfonso VIII. His nickname was due to his position as the first child of his parents, born after eight years of childless marriage.
During his reign, the castle of Calatrava-la-Vieja was conceded to Abbot Raymond Serrat of Fitero, who proposed using the lay brothers of his monastery as knights to defend this castle. These knights would give rise to the Order of Calatrava, which was confirmed in 1164 by Pope Alexander III.[1][2] It was also in his reign that the Leonese and Castilian spheres of conquest against al-Andalus were decided in the Treaty of Sahagún (May 1158), besides an exclusion of the conquering rights and a possible division of the Portuguese kingdom among the two sons of Alfonso VII, which would come to nothing possibly due to the premature death of Sancho.[3][4]
Life
Sancho was the eldest son of King Alfonso VII of León and Castile and Berengaria of Barcelona.[5] He was endowed with the "Kingdom of Nájera" in 1152, and according to Carolina Carl never appears in documents as "king of Nájera".[6] His father's will partitioned the kingdom between his two sons: Sancho inherited the kingdoms of Castile and Toledo, and Ferdinand inherited León.[7] The two brothers had just signed a treaty when Sancho suddenly died in the summer of 1158, being buried at Toledo.[8]
He had married, in 1151, Blanche of Navarre, daughter of García Ramírez of Navarre,[9] and had two sons:
- Alfonso VIII of Castile, his successor[10]
- infante García, who died at birth in 1156, apparently also resulting in the death of Queen Blanche.[11]
Notes
- ^ The early 13th-century historian Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada called him desiderabilis Sancius.
References
- ^ Linehan 2008, p. 10.
- ^ Lay 2009, p. 184.
- ^ Linehan 2008, p. 8-10.
- ^ Mattoso 2007, p. 286-287.
- ^ Van-Houts 2013, p. 160.
- ^ Carl 2011, p. 155.
- ^ Linehan 2011, p. 8.
- ^ O'Callaghan 1975, p. 235.
- ^ Hourihane 2012, p. 548.
- ^ Shadis & Berman 2002, p. 204.
- ^ del Alamo & Pendergast 2000, p. 45.
Sources
- Carl, Carolina (2011). A Bishopric Between Three Kingdoms: Calahorra, 1045-1190. Brill.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Conant, Kenneth John (1959). Carolingian and Romanesque Architecture, 800 to 1200. Yale University Press.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - del Alamo, Elizabeth Valdez; Pendergast, Carol Stamatis (2000). Memory and the Medieval Tomb. Ashgate.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Hourihane, Colum, ed. (2012). "Carrion de la Condes". The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture. Vol. Vol. 1. Oxford University Press.
{{cite encyclopedia}}:|volume=has extra text (help); Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Lay, Stephen (2009). The Reconquest Kings of Portugal. Political and Cultural Reorientation on the Medieval Frontier. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-349-35786-4.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Linehan, Peter (2011). Spain:A Partible Inheritance 1157-1300. Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Mattoso, José (2007). D. Afonso Henriques (2nd ed.). Temas e Debates. ISBN 9789727599110.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - O'Callaghan, Joseph F. (1975). A History of Medieval Spain. Cornell University Press.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Shadis, Miriam; Berman, Constance Hoffman (2002). "A Taste of the Feast: Reconsidering Eleanor of Aquitaine's Female Descendents". In Wheeler, B.; Parsons, John C. (eds.). Eleanor of Aquitaine: Lord and Lady. Palgrave Macmillan.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Van-Houts, Elisabeth (2013). Medieval Memories: Men, Women and the Past, 700-1300. Pearson Education Limited.
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Further reading
- Szabolcs de Vajay, "From Alfonso VIII to Alfonso X" in Studies in Genealogy and Family History in Tribute to Charles Evans on the Occasion of his Eightieth Birthday, 1989, pp. 366–417.
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