To ensure the alliance, his son Sancho was engaged to Dulce, sister of the Count of Barcelona and Infanta of Aragon.

In 1184, in spite of his great age, he still had sufficient energy to relieve his son Dom Sancho, who was besieged in Santarém by the Moors.

He was the second but eldest surviving son of Sancho I of Portugal by his wife, Dulce, Infanta of Aragon.

He was the second son of King Afonso II of Portugal and his wife, Urraca of Castile ; he succeeded his brother, King Sancho II of Portugal, who was removed from the throne on 4 January 1248.

As the second son of King Afonso II of Portugal, Afonso was not expected to inherit the throne, which was destined to go to his elder brother Sancho.

Since Sancho was not a popular king, the order was not hard to enforce ; he was exiled to Castile and Afonso III became king in 1248 after his brother's death.

He was the second son of King Sancho Ramírez and successor of his brother Peter I.

When Sancho learned that Alfonso was planning on overthrowing him in order to gain his territory, Sancho sent Cid to bring Alfonso back so that Sancho could speak to him.

Sancho was assassinated in 1072, as the result of a pact between his brother Alfonso and his sister Urraca.

Innocent IV was responsible for the eventual deposition of King Sancho II of Portugal at the request of his brother Afonso ( later King Afonso III of Portugal ).

One of the arguments he used against Sancho II in his Grandi non immerito text was his status as a minor upon inheriting the throne from his father Afonso II.

The reign of Sancho the Great not only expanded the Navarese territories when they absorbed Castile, Leon, and what was to be Aragon in addition to other small counties which would also unite and become the Principality of Catalonia, but it also helped form the Galician independence as well as getting overlordship on Gascony.

This character, an idealized portrayal of " Nature's Gentleman ", was an aspect of 18th-century sentimentalism, along with other stock characters such as, the Virtuous Milkmaid, the Servant-More-Clever-than-the-Master ( such as Sancho Panza and Figaro, among countless others ), and the general theme of virtue in the lowly born.

To ensure the alliance, his son Sancho was engaged to Dulce, sister of the Count of Barcelona, and princess of Aragon.

In 1184, in spite of his great age, King Afonso of Portugal still had sufficient energy to relieve his son Sancho, who was besieged in Santarém by the Moors.

For the next eight years Sancho was engaged in hostilities against Alfonso IX of León.

As Sancho was in weak health and had no means of resisting Papal pressure, he made full submission ( 1210 ); and after bestowing large estates on his sons and daughters, he retired into the monastery of Alcobaça, where he died in March 1211.

Estêvão Soares, archbishop of Braga, placed himself at the head of the nobles and churchmen who threatened to usurp the royal power during Sancho II's minority, and negotiated an alliance with Alfonso IX, by which it was arranged that the Portuguese should attack Elvas, the Castilians Badajoz.

* April 14 – Battle of Mookerheyde: Spanish forces under Sancho de Avila defeat the rebel forces of Louis of Nassau, who is killed.

A three-day battle was fought in which the pro-Córdoba faction routed their enemies and killed Velasco, along with García López, kinsman of Alfonso II of Asturias, Sancho " warrior / knight of Pamplona ", and pagan warrior " Ṣaltān ".

Spanish forces under Sancho d ' Avila defeated the rebel forces of Louis of Nassau, who was killed.

But Bernardo then joined up with the Moors, hoping to force Alfonso into action ; but Alfonso secretly had Sancho killed while in prison.

In 1018, William Isarn tried to solidify his control over the Arán valley, but was killed, and Sancho jumped on the opportunity to take his portion, presumably based on some loose claim derived from his wife.

Urraca became heiress presumptive again after Sancho ’ s death the following year, when he was killed after the Battle of Uclés.

The Emirate also attempted to reestablish its control in the region, and in 816 fought a battle there against the " enemy of Allah ", Balask al-Yalaski ( Velasco the Gascon ), who was killed along with Garcia Loup, kinsman of Alfonso II of Asturias, Sancho, premier knight in Pamplona, and Saltan, premier knight of the Mayus ( pagans ).

This coalition was defeated, al-Tawil killed, and Galindo forced to become vassal of Sancho.

They fought a three-day battle in which the pro-Córdoba faction routed their enemies and killed Velasco, along with García López, kinsman of Alfonso II of Asturias, Sancho " warrior / knight of Pamplona ", and pagan warrior " Ṣaltān ".

Seven less fortunate counts and over a thousand men were killed or captured and beheaded, with the infante Sancho, the heir to the throne, being killed while trying to escape.

Those killed include three bishops ( from Avila, Segovia and Siguenza ); Count Ordoño García de Roda and his brothers ; Counts Pedro Ruiz de Guzmán and Rodrigo Sánchez ; the Masters of the Order of Santiago, Sancho Fernández de Lemus, and of the Portuguese Order of Évora, Gonçalo Viegas.

Al-Tawil fled and was killed shortly afterward, and the power of the Banu Qasi was severely crippled, while Galindo was forced into vassalage to Sancho, leading to the incorporation of the County of Aragon into the Pamplona kingdom.

The Almoravids decisively beat the Castilians and many leaders are killed, including Sancho, Alfonso's only son ( by Zaïda, a Muslim princess ) and heir.

* Juana Alfonso of Molina ( 1245 / 1246-after 1307 ), married Lope Díaz III de Haro, Lord of Biscay, who was killed by Sancho IV of Castile in Alfaro in 1288.

At the age of fourteen Sancho was proclaimed king in the camp by the field where his father was killed at the Battle of Atapuerca.

Sancho II of Castile, assisted by El Cid, lay siege to Zamora.

With Rome under siege by Emperor Frederick II, the pope used the council to excommunicate and depose the emperor, as well as the Portuguese King Sancho II.

In 1292 it was conquered by Sancho IV of Castile, and two years later it resisted a siege by North African Islamic troops.

Sancho laid siege to the town, but the Castilian king was assassinated in 1072 by Bellido Dolfos, a Galician nobleman.

For example Pedro Sancho, who visited the complex before the siege, mentions the labyrinth-like quality of the complex and the fact that it held a great number of storage rooms filled with a wide variety of items.

Valdez halted the siege in April 1574 to face the invading rebel troops, but Sancho d ' Avila reached them first and defeated the army of Orange in the Battle of Mookerheyde.

The chronicler of San Juan de la Peña, a Navarrese source, wrote that Sancho of Castile was forced to raise the siege of Viana and flee on a horse bedecked only in its halter ; that he subsequently convinced Abd ar-Rahman of Huesca to go to war with Aragon ; and that Sancho Ramírez eventually made peace with him anyway.

Being one the northernmost points of the Islam in Spain, Graus was reconquered by the Christians in 1083 by Sancho Ramirez in the Battle of Graus, after the death of Ramiro I in 1064 in the siege of Graus.