The Delahorne/Curtis Family History

of Navarre · ◉ direct ancestor

♀Blanca of Navarre

Dates not yet known.

Blanca of NavarreW was the mother of Alfonso of Castile (1155–1214). She was the twenty-sixth great-grandmother of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through her son Alfonso.

Blanca was a daughter of García VI RamírezW, King of Navarre, and is said to have married Sancho of Castile, King of Castile, known as el Deseado, “the Desired”. Their son Alfonso inherited the crown as a small child, when Sancho died in 1158, and the regency that followed set the great Castilian families against one another.

Notes

Sources and grade

Blanca’s parentage, her marriage to Sancho, his kingship and death in 1158, and their son Alfonso come from Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry (2nd ed.), vol. I, Castile 3, p. 491, a modern compiled genealogy. No dates are known for Blanca, and no parents are entered for Sancho. The numeral III and the epithet el Deseado are the usage of the compiler and of general history. The account of the regency is in the biography of their son Alfonso.

Family time line

◉ Blanca of Navarre
◉ Sancho of Castile, King of Castile
No marriage recorded
◉ Alfonso of Castile, King of Castile, Toledo and Extremadura 1155–1214

Recorded events

EventWhenWhereEvidence ?on record - the record itself, its image, or a transcript or printed copy of it has been read
from a compiled source - an index, a printed genealogy or a memorial page says so
not yet documented - in the family record, no source attached yet
Living at aft 1133 Laguardia, Álava, País Vasco, Spain on record

Sources

  • Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (en.wikipedia.org) - articles on medieval royal and noble ancestors, read s1409 — Living at, about this person
  • Richardson, Douglas. Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd ed. (Salt Lake City: the author, 2011) — about this person, family with Sancho of Castile

Borders as they stood about 1500, from the historical-basemaps project, the Newberry Library's Atlas of Historical County Boundaries (states and territories, 1783 on) and Natural Earth; the colonies and provinces are drawn along today's lines.

Line of descent

Descendants

  1. Alfonso of Castile 1155–1214
    1. Berenguela of Castile –1246
      1. Fernando of Castile 1201–1252
        1. Leonor Castilla 1241–1290
        2. Eleanor of Castile –1290