Sancho IV of Castile

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Sancho IV of Castile (12 May 1258 – 25 April 1295) called the Brave (el Bravo), was the

Just before succumbing to a fatal illness (possibly tuberculosis)^[2] he appointed his wife, María de Molina, to act as regent for his nine-year-old son, Ferdinand IV. He died on 25 April 1295 in Toledo.^[2]

Family

Sancho married Maria de Molina in 1282,^[3] but at first their marriage did not have the necessary papal dispensation for two reasons: First, they had a distant blood relation, and second, Sancho had been betrothed as an infant to a rich Catalan heiress named Guillerma Moncada.

Sancho and Maria had the following children:

• Isabella (1283–1328),^[4] Married first James II of Aragon^[5] and secondly John III, Duke of Brittany^[6]
• Ferdinand IV (1285–1312). Married Constance of Portugal.
• Alfonso de Castilla (1286–1291)
• Henry (1288–1299)
• Peter (1290–1319) married Maria daughter of James II of Aragon
• Philip (1292–1327). Married his cousin Margarita de la Cerda, daughter of Alfonso de la Cerda.^[7]
• Beatrice (1293–1359). Married Afonso IV of Portugal.

He had three illegitimate children:

By María Alfonso Téllez de Menezes (d. Toro), wife of Juan García, Lord of Ucero:

• Violante Sánchez (died bef. 1327), who held the dowry of Ucero as its lady, married in 1293 Fernando Rodríguez de Castro, Lord of Lemos.^[8]
• Teresa Sánchez, who married
  Denis I of Portugal
  , and had female issue. After the death of her first husband, she married Ruy Gil de Villalobos, with whom she had one daughter.

By another woman whose name is unknown, he had:

• Alfonso Sánchez, who married, as his second wife, María Díaz de Salcedo, but died without issue.

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