Sancha of aragon biography of barack
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Sancha of aragon biography of barack
Queen of Aragon from 1174 to 1196
Sancha of Castile (21 September 1154/5 – 9 November 1208) was the only surviving child of King Alfonso VII of León and Castile bygd his second wife, Richeza of Poland.
Sancha of aragon biography of barack
On January 18, 1174, she married King Alfonso II of Aragon at Zaragoza; they had at least eight children who survived into adulthood.
A patroness of troubadours such as Giraud de Calanson and Peire Raymond, the queen became involved in a legal dispute with her husband concerning properties which formed part of her dower estates.
In 1177, she entered the County of Ribagorza and took forcible possession of various castles and fortresses that belonged to the crown there.
After her husband died at Perpignan in 1196,
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House of Borgia
Italo-Spanish Renaissance noble family
"Borgia" redirects here. For other uses, see Borgia (disambiguation).
The House of Borgia (BOR-zhə, BOR-jə;[2][3][4]Italian:[ˈbɔrdʒa]; Spanish and Aragonese: Borja[ˈboɾxa]; Valencian: Borja[ˈbɔɾdʒa]) was a Spanish noble family, which rose to prominence during the Italian Renaissance.[5] They were from Xàtiva, Kingdom of Valencia, the surname being a toponymic from the town of Borja, then in the Crown of Aragon, in Spain.
The Borgias became prominent in ecclesiastical and political affairs in the 15th and 16th centuries, producing two popes: Alfons de Borja, who ruled as Pope Callixtus III during 1455–1458, and Rodrigo Lanzol Borgia, as Pope Alexander VI, during 1492–1503.
Especially during the reign of Alexander VI, they were suspected of many crimes, including adultery, incest, simony, theft, bribery, and murder (especially murder by arsenic poison
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The Sovereign Dynasty Paternò-Ayerbe-Aragon and its Dynastic Chivalric Orders
Published by the Grand Chancellery of the Royal Balearic Crown of Paternò
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Contents
1.The House of Paternò
2.The Ayerbe family
3.The Aragon family
4.The Balearic Kingdom, the Paternò pretension to it and their rights as a sovereign family
5.The House of Paternò Castello Guttadauro – Princes of Emmanuel
The House of Paternò
Of the great Italian families which claim royal origin, few have the historical importance of the family of Paternò.
Our purpose is not to write its history and its genealogy, but to demonstrate its royal origin; the few notes which follow are however more than sufficient to give an understanding of its greatness.
etc.; ascribed to the Nobility of Catania, Sorrento, Cotrone, Amalfi, Benevento, Palermo; decorated by the highest Orders of Knights; accepted into the Order of the Knights of Malta, for Justice, from 1597; illustrious thanks to hundreds of persons famous in