Sancho Alfonsez III SANCHEZ, King Of Castille

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Family/Spouse: Princess Blanche Garcia RAMIREZ, Of Navarre. Blanche was born about 1139 in Navarre, Spain; died on 24 Jun 1158 in Castilla, Castilla, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Royal House: ; Castilian House of Ivrea
• Name: Alfonso VIII
• Name: The Noble
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• ACCEDED: 1158
• TitleOfNobility: Between 1158 and 1214; King of Castile and Toledo

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Alfonso VIII (1155-1214), king of Castile (1158-1214); he succeeded to the throne on the death of his father, Sancho III. Troubled by interference from Navarre in his youth, he later allied Castile with Arag?n, forming a connection that was eventually to become the basis for the unification of Spain. He also established Castilian dominance over Le?n. In 1170 he married Eleanor, daughter of King Henry II of England. From the 1170s, he resisted encroachments by the Almohads, Muslim invaders from northern Africa. Defeated by the Muslim caliph Yakub al-Mansur at Alarcos in 1195, Alfonso and his allies won a major victory over the Muslim commander al-Nasir at Navas de Tolosa in 1212.

Alfonso married Queen Alianor "Eleanor" PLANTAGENET on 22 Sep 1177 in Castile, Burgos, Spain. Alianor (daughter of King Henry II PLANTAGENET and Queen Eleanor De AQUITAINE) was born on 13 Oct 1162 in Domfront Castle, Normandy; was christened in in , Domfront, Normandie; died on 25 Oct 1214 in Las Huelgas, Burgos, Burgos, Spain; was buried in Abbey Of Las Huelgas, Burgos, Castile, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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She was the Queen of Castile. Title: La Granda

Berengaria married King Alfonso Fernandez CASTILE AND LEON, IX in 1197 in Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain. Alfonso (son of King Ferdinand Alfonsez II Of LEON and Princess Urraca Alfonsez Of PORTUGAL, Of Portugal) was born on 15 Aug 1171 in Zamora, Leon, Spain; died on 24 Sep 1230 in Villaneuva DE Soria, Castilla, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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From Encyclopedia Britannica Online, article titled "Blanche of Castile:"

"French BLANCHE DE CASTILLE, Spanish BLANCA DE CASTILLA, wife of Louis VIII of France, mother of Louis IX (St. Louis), and twice regent of France (1226-34, 1248-52), who by wars and marital alliances did much to secure and unify French territories. Blanche was the daughter of Alfonso VIII of Castile and Eleanor, who was the daughter of Henry II of England. Her grandmother Eleanor of Aquitaine, queen of
England, traveled to Spain to take the 11-year-old Blanche to France, where a marriage treaty was concluded with Louis, the young son of King Philip II Augustus. This politically motivated marriage had been arranged by Blanche's uncle, King John of England, and was celebrated in 1200 at Portsmouth, Hampshire. It represented only a brief truce in the struggle between England and France for control over certain French territories.

"Blanche, who became French through marriage, was gradually to become French in spirit as well. Although she did not cease to be concerned for her family, among them her uncle John and his allies, her brother-in-law Ferrand of Portugal, and her cousin Otto of Brunswick (later Holy Roman emperor Otto IV), she rejoiced at the French victory over Otto and the English at Bouvines in 1214, marking the first stage of French unification, a goal for which she was constantly to strive. In the same year, she gave
birth to Louis, the future king of France. Upon John of England's death, Blanche boldly tried to seize the English throne: in 1216 Louis of France invaded England on her behalf. The English stood firm against him, and John's nine-year-old son was finally crowned Henry III.

"A devout Roman Catholic, Blanche soon became involved in what she sincerely believed to be a holy war against the heretical Cathari, a sect founded on the belief that good and evil had two separate creators, which was flourishing throughout southern France. Her husband, who became Louis VIII in 1223, took part in a crusade against the Cathari but suffered a fatal attack of dysentery upon returning to the north of France in 1226. In accordance with her husband's will, Blanche became both guardian of the 12-year-old Louis and regent of France. She zealously pressed to have Louis crowned immediately, and the coronation took place at Reims three weeks after Louis VIII's death.

"Her most pressing problem was to deal with a rebellion of the great barons, organized by Philip Hurepel, the illegitimate son of King Philip II Augustus, and supported by King Henry III of England. In the face of such adversity, Blanche showed herself by turns a delicate diplomat, a clever negotiator, and a strong leader. Dressed in white, on a white palfrey draped in the same colour, she rode into battle at the head of her troops. After an attempted abduction of the young king, Blanche did not hesitate to
replace rebel noble associates with commoners if she thought it necessary. She also created local militias. Blanche was gradually able to subdue the revolt, establish a new truce with England, and, in 1229, pacify the south of France by signing the Treaty of Paris with Raymond VII, count of Toulouse. France then entered an era of domestic stability, which saw the construction of many cathedrals throughout the country.

"On only one occasion did Blanche fail to exhibit diplomatic conduct. In 1229 a dispute between an innkeeper and some students took place in the Latin Quarter in Paris. The police were summoned, and the students were beaten and thrown into the Seine; such intervention in the Latin Quarter, however, was contrary to the prerogatives granted to the university, and the faculty and students threatened to strike if the university's privileges were not respected. Badly advised, Blanche held firm, but the university closed its doors, and the faculty and students left Paris for the provinces and abroad. It was to take four years and the intervention of the pope before the university would return to Paris with new prerogatives, this time granted by Blanche herself.

"Although Louis IX came of age on April 25, 1236, Blanche remained at his side as his most loyal and steadfast supporter. She lacked tact, however, with regard to her son's private life. Although Blanche herself had selected Margaret of Provence to be Louis's wife, she treated Margaret with considerable severity. In 1244, after Louis recovered from a serious illness, he and his wife, much against Blanche's wishes, made a vow to go on a crusade against the Muslims. They embarked in 1248, and once again the kingdom was entrusted to Blanche. Informed of Louis's defeat at Al-Mansurah, Egypt, and his subsequent imprisonment, Blanche herself went to seek his ransom and that of the French army. She petitioned her parents, her allies, and the pope for funds and supplies, but interest in the crusade had dwindled.

"Although weakened by a heart ailment, Blanche did not neglect her obligations as a regent. Continuing to preside over council meetings, she signed laws and watched over the poor of Paris. When some of the poor were mistreated by the cathedral chapter, she herself rode, as formerly, to open the gates to their prison. On her way to the Abbey of the Lys, one of her favourite retreats, Blanche suffered an attack of the heart ailment that was to take her life. She was returned to the palace of the Louvre, dressed in a nun's habit, and laid on a bed of hay. There, after begging forgiveness of all and having received the last sacraments, she died. She was buried at Maubuisson Abbey and her heart taken to the Abbey of the Lys. Louis IX was in Jaffa when he learned of his mother's death. The news distressed him greatly, for he was aware that he had lost not only an incomparable parent but also the strongest supporter of his
kingship."

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Blanche married Louis VIII CAPET, Roi de France on 23 May 1200 in Pont-Audemer, Eure, Normandy, France. Louis (son of King Phillippe CAPET, Of France and Isabelle DE HAINAUT, Reine de France) was born on 5 Sep 1187 in Ch?teau de Poiss, Poissy, Yvelmes, Ile-de-France, Paris, France; died on 8 Nov 1226 in Ch?teau de Montpensier, Puy-de-D?me, Auvergne, France; was buried in 1226 in Saint Denis Basilica, Seine, Ile-De-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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She was the Princess of Castile and Leon.

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She was the Princess of Leon.

Infanta de Castile.

Berengaria married in 1212 in Jerusalem. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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She was the Princess of Castile and Leon.

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• Name: Fernando III "EL SANTO", REY DE CASTILLA Y DE LE?N
• Name: The Saint
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• King of Castile and Toledo: 1217
• King of Leon and Galicia: 1230

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From Encyclopedia Britannica Online, article titled "Ferdinand III:"

"canonized Feb. 4, 1671; feast day May 30"

"also called SAINT FERDINAND, Spanish SAN FERNANDO, king of Castile from 1217 to 1252 and of Leon from 1230 to 1252 and conqueror of the Muslim cities of C?ordoba (1236), Ja?en (1246), and Seville (1248). During his campaigns, Murcia submitted to his son Alfonso (later Alfonso X), and the Muslim kingdom of Granada became his vassal.

"Ferdinand was the son of Alfonso IX of Leon and Berenguela, daughter of Alfonso VIII of Castile. When born, he was the heir to Leon, but his uncle, Henry I of Castile, died young, and his mother inherited the crown of Castile, which she conferred on him. His father, like many Leonese, opposed the union, and Ferdinand found himself at war with him. By his will Alfonso IX tried to disinherit his son, but the will was set aside, and Castile and Leon were permanently united in 1230.

"Ferdinand married Beatrice of Swabia, daughter of the Holy Roman emperor, a title that Ferdinand's son Alfonso X was to claim. His conquest of Lower Andalusia was the result of the disintegration of the Almohad state. The Castilians and other conquerors occupied the cities, driving out the Muslims and taking over vast estates."

In 1217 Ferdinand became King of Castile, which crown his mother renounced in his favour, and in 1230 he succeeded to the crown of Leon, though not without civil strife, since many were opposed to the union of the two kingdoms. He took as his counsellors the wisest men in the State, saw to the strict administration of justice, and took the greatest care not to overburden his subjects with taxation, fearing, as he said, the curse of one poor woman more than a whole army of Saracens. Following his mother's advice, Ferdinand, in 1219, married Beatrice, the daughter of Philip of Swabia, King of Germany, one of the most virtuous princesses of her time. God blessed this union with seven children: six princes and one princess. The highest aims of Ferdinand's life were the propagation of the Faith and the liberation of Spain from the Saracen yoke. Hence his continual wars against the Saracens. He took from them vast territories, Granada and Alicante alone remaining in their power at the time of his death. In the most important towns he founded bishoprics, reestablished Catholic worship everywhere, built churches, founded monasteries, and endowed hospitals. The greatest joys of his life were the conquests of Cordova (1236) and Seville (1248). He turned the great mosques of these places into cathedrals, dedicating them to the Blessed Virgin. He watched over the conduct of his soldiers, confiding more in their virtue than in their valour, fasted strictly himself, wore a rough hairshirt, and often spent his nights in prayer, especially before battles. Amid the tumult of the camp he lived like a religious in the cloister. The glory of the Church and the happiness of his people were the two guiding motives of his life. He founded the University of Salamanca, the Athens of Spain. Ferdinand was buried in the great cathedral of Seville before the image of the Blessed Virgin, clothed, at his own request, in the habit of the Third Order of St. Francis. His body, it is said, remains incorrupt. Many miracles took place at his tomb, and Clement X canonized him in 1671. His feast is kept by the Minorites on the 30th of May.

Fernando married Elisabeth VON HOHENSTAUFEN on 30 Nov 1219 in Burgos, Burgos, Castilla y Le?n, Spain. Elisabeth was born on 3 May 1205 in N?rnberg, Bavaria, Holy Roman Empire; was christened in in N?rnberg, Bayern, Heiliges R?misches Reich; died on 5 Nov 1235 in Toro, Toro, Zamora, Castilla y Le?n, Spain; was buried in 1235 in Sevilla, Sevilla, Andalusia, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Fernando married Jeanne (Joan) DAMMARTIN in Oct 1237 in Castile, Burgos, Spain. Jeanne (daughter of Count Simon DAMMARTIN, II and Countess Marie (Or Jeanne) De PONTHIEU) was born about 1216 in Of, Dammartin, Seine-Et-Marne, France; died on 15 Mar 1279 in Abbeville, Somme, France; was buried in 1279. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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He was the Seigneur de Molina y Mesa.

Alfonso married after Sep 1244. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alfonso married Mayor DE MENESES in 1245. Mayor was born about 1222; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alfonso married after 1246. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Royal House: ; Capet
• Name: Saint
• King of France: Between 1226 and 1270
• Ordered the burning of The Talmud in Paris: 1243, Paris, ?le-de-France, France
• MilitaryService: 1258, Egypt; Led the Seventh Crusade
• 8th crusade: 24 Mar 1267
• MilitaryService: 1270, Tunis, Tunisia; Leader of the Eighth Crusade

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Louis IX, Roi de France was born on 25 April 1215 at Poissy, ?le-de-France, FranceG.3 He was the son of Louis VIII, Roi de France and Blanca de Castilla. He married Marguerite de Provence, daughter of Raimond Berengar V, Comte de Provence and Beatrice di Savoia, in 1234.4 He died on 25 August 1270 at age 55 at Tunis, Tunisia. He was buried at Saint-Denis, ?le-de-France.

He was a member of the House of Capet. Louis IX, Roi de France also went by the nick-name of Louis 'the Saint'.2 He succeeded as the Roi Louis IX de France in 1226.
Children of Louis IX, Roi de France and Marguerite de Provence

Blanche de France b. 1240, d. 1243
Isabelle de France b. 1242, d. 1271
Louis de France b. 1243, d. c 1260
Philippe III, Roi de France
b. 1 May 1245, d. 5 Oct 1285
Jean de France b. c 1247, d. 1248
Jean Tristan de France, Comte de Valois
b. 1250, d. 1270
Pierre de France, Comte d'Alen?on
b. 1251, d. 1283
Blanche de France b. 1253, d. 1300
Marguerite de France b. c 1255, d. 1271
Robert de France, Comte de Clermont
b. 1256, d. 1317
Agnes de France b. 1260, d. 1327

Louis married Queen Margaret BERENGER, Of Provence in May 1234. Margaret (daughter of Count Raymond BERENGER, V and Countess Beatrice DE SAVOIE) was born in 1221 in Forcalquire, Aples-DE-Haute-Provence; died on 21 Dec 1295 in Paris, Seine, Ile-DE-France, France; was buried in , Saint Denis, Seine-St-Denis, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Louis married Marguerite DE PROVENCE, Reine de France on 27 May 1234 in Saint Etienne, Sens, Yonne, France. Marguerite was born in 1221 in Forcalqu ier, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France; died on 21 Dec 1295 in Abbaye de Saint Marcel, Paris, Ile-de-France, France; was buried in Dec 1295 in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, ?le-de-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Count married Mahaut DE LOUVAIN, Of Artois on 14 Jun 1237 in Champagne, France. Mahaut (daughter of Duke Henry DE LOUVAIN, Of Brabant and Maria HOHENSTAUFENS, Of Germany) was born in 1218 in Brabant, France; died on 29 Sep 1288. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• ACCEDED: 1265
• RULED: 1266, King Of Sicily; Count Of Provence; Duke Of Anjou 1246; King Of Naples & Sicily.

King married Countress Beatrice BERENGER, Of Provence in 1246. Countress (daughter of Count Raymond BERENGER, V and Countess Beatrice DE SAVOIE) died in 1267. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]