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    grandparents were Sancho Garcés III, king of Pamplona and his wife Muniadona of Castile, and his maternal grandparents were Alfonso V of León (after whom he...
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    tradition had always assigned the title of emperor to the sovereign who held León. Sancho the Great considered the city the imperiale culmen and minted coins with...
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    Fernando Sancho Les (7 January 1916 – 31 July 1990) was a Spanish actor. He was born in Zaragoza, in Aragon, Spain on 7 January 1916 and died at Hospital...
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    León as an imperium: "the kingdom [and] empire [of] King Sancho in León". In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, scribes began to refer to Sancho as...
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    January. Ordoño III of León becomes king. 956 (Date unknown). Sancho I of León becomes king. 958 (Date unknown). Ordoño IV of León becomes king, interrupting...
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    received the homage of the nobles of the kingdom. King Sancho IV entrusted to Fernán Pérez Ponce de León the raising of his newborn son, since he had been...
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    El Cid (category 11th-century people from the Kingdom of León)
    Ferdinand's son, Sancho II of León and Castile. He rose to become the commander and royal standard-bearer (armiger regis) of Castile upon Sancho's ascension...
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    second son of King Sancho Ramírez and successor of his brother Peter I. With his marriage to Urraca, queen regnant of Castile, León and Galicia, in 1109...
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    Inês de Castro (category Peter I of Portugal)
    daughter of Sancho IV of Castile. Her great-great grandfather was Rodrigo Alfonso de León, Lord of Aliger, the illegitimate son of Alfonso IX of León. She also...
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    Abd-al-Rahman III. Toda was married to King Sancho I of Pamplona, with whom she had the following children: Urraca, queen of León from 931 until 951 as the wife of...
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    and of Teresa Sánchez, an illegitimate daughter of Sancho IV the Brave, king of Castile and León. They were the parents of João Afonso de Albuquerque...
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    writer, and his 2022 debut novel The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho won the 2023 Christopher Bland Prize awarded by the Royal Society of Literature...
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    of Germany in Aachen Cathedral by Pilgrim, archbishop of Cologne. King Sancho Garcés III (the Great) conquers Castile (modern Spain) (approximate date)...
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    VII of León and his second wife Queen Richeza of Poland. Mafalda died in her childhood at an unrecorded date. Sancho, the future King Sancho I of Portugal...
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    July,: 69–91  they swore allegiance to Philip I and Joanna together as King and Queen of Castile and León and to their son Charles as their heir-apparent...
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    Porto took place in October 1580 by the Spanish forces commanded by Don Sancho d'Avila during the War of the Portuguese Succession. The city was captured...
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  • with Richard Harrison, Fernando Sancho, Robert Hundar, Miguel Palenzuela, Gloria Milland) Fuera de la Ley (1964 by León Klimovsky with George Martin, Jack...
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  • of France (French: Louis le Gros) Ptolemy VIII of Ptolemaic Egypt Sancho I of León "~ the Fearless": John the Fearless (French: Jean sans Peur) "~ the...
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    of Leon and Sancho VII of Navarre entered an alliance with the Almohads and invaded Castile in 1196.[citation needed] By the end of the year Sancho VII...
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    Rossinante) and his comic squire Sancho Panza (on a donkey). Delighted by their attention, Don Quichotte tells a reluctant Sancho to throw them money. After...
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  • Infante (redirect from Infanta of León)
    Spain (including the predecessor kingdoms of Aragon, Castile, Navarre, and León) and Portugal to the sons and daughters (infantas) of the king, regardless...
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  • Flanders Theresa of Portugal, Queen of León (1181–1250), daughter of Sancho I of Portugal and wife of Alfonso IX of León Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska (1676-1830)...
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    of Castile (as Philip I) for a brief time in 1506. The son of Maximilian of Austria (later Holy Roman Emperor as Maximilian I) and Mary of Burgundy,...
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    Alfonso VI of León and Castile attacked the Muslim Taifa of Valencia. They also unsuccessfully besieged Tortosa with support from troops of Sancho Ramírez,...
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    Diego López V de Haro, both Lords of Biscay. In the chronicles of the king, Sancho IV of Castile, one anecdote is dedicated to this Juan Nunez where the monarch...
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    son Sancho III (1157–58). He served Alfonso as a courtier after 1134 and as majordomo (1135–38). He was the guardian and tutor the young Sancho III from...
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    to bear García: Sancho VI Blanca, born after 1133, married Sancho III of Castile Margaret, named after her mother, married William I of Sicily Garcia's...
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    in (of) Germany, King of Italy, King of all Spains, of Castile, Aragon, León, of Hungary, of Dalmatia, of Croatia, Navarra, Grenada, Toledo, Valencia...
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  • Rodríguez as Victor DeFrois Ana Maria Salazar as Nela, the Saloon Girl José Sancho Manuel Torremocha as Jacob, Gold Panner Fridlund, Bert (24 December 2014)...
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    Dona Maria I (17 December 1734 – 20 March 1816) was Queen of Portugal from 24 February 1777 until her death in 1816. Known as Maria the Pious in Portugal...
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