Sanche IV of Castille

Sanche IV of Castille known as Sanche the Brave man , born the May 12th 1258 (or in 1257 according to other sources), dead the April 25th 1295 with Tolède, was king de Castille and of León of 1284 with 1295. He was the son of Alphonse X of Castille and puîné brother of Ferdinand of Cerda.

He pushed back an offensive carried out by the sultan of the Morocco and the emir of Grenade.

In 1275, with died of his/her older brother Ferdinand of Cerda, which left two male heirs in low age -   Alphonse, age 4 years, and Ferdinand, age of some mois  -, it benefits from the absence of his father Alphonse X, left for Germany to be made recognize king of the Romans, to join together the Cortes with Segovia and to be made recognize heir, instead of the elder one of its nephews, with the contempt of the law of primogeniture (with male preference with equal degree) which regulated usually the succession of the crown of Castille.

In 1275, it revolts openly against Alphonse X, and is made recognize regent of Castille and León by an assembly of kindness joined together with Valladolid. The competition between the legitimate king and the regent threatens a time the unit of the kingdom, but Alphonse X dies in 1284, opening the way with a recognition of his usurpation by the Cortes, then with his crowning with Tolède during the summer 1284.

He is combined with the France against the Aragon and devotes himself to the wars of Reconquest against the Moors of Morocco. In 1292, supported by Génois, it is victorious with the battle of Tariffed, in Andalusia. It succeeds in making reign peace in Castille and León, its two kingdoms after it had created itself the disorder.

Union and descent

Sanche IV marries, in July 1281 with Tolède, Maria Alfonso de Molina there Mesa (born after 1260, dead on July 1st 1321 with Valladolid), who will exert the regency of the kingdom twice:
  • of 1295 with 1301, during the reign of his/her oldest son, jointly with Henri de Castille (uncle de Sanche IV),
  • of 1312 with 1321, in the name of its grandson, jointly with his two sons juniors Pierre and Philippe (uncles of the young king).

One knows seven children of the union of Sanche IV and Maria de Molina:

Sources

  • C.E.D.R.E. (circle of studies of the European royal dynasties)
  • encyclopedic Larousse colors, France Leisures 1979.
  • the Kings who made France Philippe Beautiful the of Georges Bordonove Edit.Pygamlion (1985)

Internal bonds

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