Sancha Alfonso de León y Castilla

• Preferred Name: Sancha Alfonso de León y Castilla^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]}
  
• Gender: F
  
• FSID: MMXL-SLF
  
• Birth: 16 MAR 1104 in Burgos, Castilla y León, España at LATI: N2.3468 LONG: E3.6997
  
• Death: 8 FEB 1135 in Toledo, Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, España at LATI: N9.8623 LONG: E4.0268 with note: - 1. GEDCOM data - 2. https://gw.geneanet.org/brunobravomalo?lang=en&pz= luis+gustavo&nz=palacios+cordero&p=sancha+teresa&n=d e+castilla+y+leon
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Princess of Castilla
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
  
  Infanta doña SANCHA de Castilla y León ([1100/16 Mar 1104]-after 10 May 1125). The Chronicon Regum Legionensium names "Sancha the wife of count Rodrigo and Elvira who married Duke Roger of Sicily" as the daughters of King Alfonso and his fourth "legitimate wife…Elisabeth"[563]. Both daughters are named in a charter dated 16 Mar 1104[564]. In view of the dates of their marriages, it is unlikely that they were born much before this date.
  
  This suggests that their mother may have been King Alfonso's fifth wife, formerly known by her Muslim name Zaïda, although if their estimated birth dates are correct there would have been an interval of several years between their births and the birth of their older brother Sancho, which seems surprising. "Comite domno Roderico Gonzalvus cum uxore mea Sandecia prolis filia regis Adephonsus" donated the monastery of San Mames to Santa María de Piasca by charter dated "mense Iulii, Era 1100" (misdated)[565].
  
  m (1120 or 1122) as his first wife, RODRIGO González de Lara Señor de Lara y Liébana, son of GONZALO Núñez & his wife Goto --- (-after 1143).
  
  === No son Rodrigo ===
  Though it is commonly found in older history books, Sancha had no son named Rodrigo. This arose due to a historian writing in the late-17th/early 18th-centuries, who concluded that two apparent sisters, with the patronymic Rodríguez, were Lara relatives. Based on their chronology, he concluded that they were likely granddaughters of Rodrigo González de Lara and Sancha Alfonso, and so he created a 'Rodrigo Rodríguez' to fill the gap. There was never any independent evidence that such a person existed - he was created solely as a genealogical placeholder to bridge the sisters to their supposed grandparents.
  
  It has since been discovered that the two sisters were not Lara at all. A monastic account of its benefactor families shows these sisters to have been daughters of Rodrigo Fernández de Toroño, with no Lara relationship. As such, the sole reason for assigning a son Rodrigo to Rodrigo González and Sancha Alfonso disappears completely.
  
  === Mother ===
  There is scholarly disagreement over whether Zaida, mistress of Alfonso VI and mother of his son Sancho, is the same woman as his queen Isabel, mother of Sancha and Elvira. Sancha was unquestionably daughter of Queen Isabella. She was daughter of Zaida if, and only if, Zaida was identical to Queen Isabella, but scholars are divided over whether this was the case.

• m. 1120

1. Elvira Rodríguez de Lara, b. ABT 1118 in l'Urgell, Lleida, Catalonia, Spain    

1. Title: PARENTS OF D. SANCHA - AFFONSO VI and ISABEL DE FRANÇA (daughter of LUIS VI, O GORDO)
   Author: BOOK: Provas da Historia Genealogica da Casa Real Portugueza, Tiradas dos Instrumentos dos Archivos da Torre do Tombo, da Serenissima Casa de Bragança, de Diversas Cathedraes, Mosteiros e Outros Particulares Deste Reyno BY: Antonio Caetano de Sousa January 1, 1739 Officina Sylviana da Academia real Pages 390 https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Antonio_Caetano_de_Sousa_Provas_da_Historia_geneal?id=B5mmCKJCKGwC
   Publication: Name: https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Antonio_Caetano_de_Sousa_Provas_da_Historia_geneal?id=B5mmCKJCKGwC;
   Note: Page 390-391 “Foy D. Pedro Nunes de Gusmão, filho de D. Alvaro Peres de Gusmão, Alcaide môr de Sevilha, e de sua mulher D. Maria Giron, filha de Gonçalo Rodrigues Giron, Mestre de Santiago, que faleceo no anno de 1280. e era o Mestre quarto neto do Conde D. Rodrigo Gonçalves Giron, Senhor da parte de Cisneros, em quem o Doutor Jeronymo Gudiel principia esta Familia, o qual vivia no anno 1152. e casou com a Infanta D. Sancha, filha del Rey D. Affonso VI. e de sua quarta mulher D. Isabel de França, filha del Rey Luiz VI. o Gordo, como escreve o mesmo Gudiel. Salazar adianta muito mais o conhecimento desta Familia, porque tem a D. Rondrigo Gonçalves por neto de D. Pelayo Pelaes, Senhor de Cisneros, que no anno de 1111. fe acha confirmando huma Escritura, como refere Brandão; e era filho do Infante D. Pelayo Fruela, o Diacono, filho do Infante D. Aznar Fruelas, neto del Rey D. Fruela II. de Leão, que affenta por tronco das Familias de Sylva, Cunha, e Giron.” INFORMATION ON THE AUTHOR António Caetano de Sousa from Wikipedia: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%C3%B3nio_Caetano_de_Sousa
   Page: This record documents the parents of D. Sancha. I understand that it is controversial and / or unclear who her parents are. This is one source that if I am reading the words correctly, documents her parents as Rey D. Affonso VI and Isabel de França, daughter of Rey Luiz VI, o Gordo. Regarding the Muslim Princess Zaida: this would mean that if Zaida did change her name when baptized to Isabel, that she is a different Isabel, and not the mother of D. Sancha. I don't know the credibility of the author. If anyone knows about this, please advise me. I would like to have more sources on this.
   
2. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Sancha Alfonsez Castile -
   Author: Ancestral File (TM), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2737222797
   
3. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Sancha Alonso - Published information: birth-name: Sancha Alonso
   Note: Published information: birth-name: Sancha Alonso Published information: female Published information: death: Fallecida; Spain
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:3248080904
   
4. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Sancha Alfonsez Castile - birth: 1100; Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
   Author: One World Tree (sm), Ancestry.com, Name: Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., n.d.;, www.ancestry.com
   Note: birth: 1100; Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain Source Medium: Ancestry.com death: 10 May 1125; Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain Source Medium: Ancestry.com Source Medium: Ancestry.com
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:3244922896
   
5. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Sancha Alfonsez Castile -
   Author: Ancestral File (TM), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84150 USA
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2004200678
   
6. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Sancha Alfonsez Castile - birth: about 1100; Toledo, Spain
   Author: v11t4329.FTW, Not Given
   Note: birth: about 1100; Toledo, Spain Source Media Type: Other death: before 10 May 1125; Toledo, Spain Source Media Type: Other Source Media Type: Other
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2737222792
   
7. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Sancha Alfonsez Castile -
   Author: Ancestral File (TM), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, July 1996 (c), data as of 2 January 1996
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2737222795
   
8. Title: Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
   Publication: Name: https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/CASTILE.htm#Sanchadied1125MRodrigoGonzalezLara;
   Note: Infanta doña SANCHA de Castilla y León ([1100/16 Mar 1104]-after 10 May 1125). The Chronicon Regum Legionensium names "Sancha the wife of count Rodrigo and Elvira who married Duke Roger of Sicily" as the daughters of King Alfonso and his fourth "legitimate wife…Elisabeth"[563]. Both daughters are named in a charter dated 16 Mar 1104[564]. In view of the dates of their marriages, it is unlikely that they were born much before this date. This suggests that their mother may have been King Alfonso's fifth wife, formerly known by her Muslim name Zaïda, although if their estimated birth dates are correct there would have been an interval of several years between their births and the birth of their older brother Sancho, which seems surprising. "Comite domno Roderico Gonzalvus cum uxore mea Sandecia prolis filia regis Adephonsus" donated the monastery of San Mames to Santa María de Piasca by charter dated "mense Iulii, Era 1100" (misdated)[565]. m (1120 or 1122) as his first wife, RODRIGO González de Lara Señor de Lara y Liébana, son of GONZALO Núñez & his wife Goto --- (-after 1143).