Sancha Raimúndez
| Sancha Raimúndez | |
|---|---|
| Infanta of León and Castile | |
| Born | c. 1095/1102 |
| Died | 28 February 1159 León |
| Burial | Basilica of San Isidoro |
| House | House of Burgundy |
| Father | Raymond of Burgundy |
| Mother | Urraca of León |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Sancha Raimúndez of León (c. 1095/1102 – 28 February 1159) was a Leonese infanta, the daughter of Raymond of Burgundy and Queen Urraca of León and the older sister of Alfonso VII of León. Her body is claimed to remain incorrupt.
She must have been born between the years 1095 - year of the marriage of their parents - and 1102. Daughter of Queen Urraca of León and Count Raymond of Burgundy, she was the sister of Alfonso VII of León, who inherited after their mother's death the throne of Castile and León.
She grew up with her mother, along with her aunts, the infantas Sancha and Elvira, daughters of Alfonso VI of León and Castile, who at the time enjoyed the possession of the Infantado, i.e. a set of monasteries and churches throughout the kingdom, which upon the death of the owners, who could only be unmarried infantas, reverted to the Crown, as in the case of Infanta Sancha, who also owned Infantados in the kingdoms of Leon, Castile and Galicia.
Queen Urraca, her mother, died in 1126 and was succeeded by her son Alfonso VII who named his sister Sancha queen, a precedent set by his grandfather Alfonso VI when he conferred the title of queen to Urraca of Zamora, his sister. Infanta-Queen Sancha then became one of the closest advisor and collaborator of her brother the king and her name appear in nearly all of her brother's public documents.
In 1127, a year after the death of her mother, her brother the king granted her the Infantado, which made her the lady of several of the most important monasteries of the kingdom, including San Isidoro de León. She first took possession of the Infantado of León, and later, those of Galicia and Asturias. She inherited all the Infantados in the kingdoms of Leon and Castile, Asturias which included the Infantado of Covarrubias, Valle del Torío, León, Tierra de Campos, and El Bierzo. In 1138, she promoted the restoration of the Monasterio de Santa María de Carracedo, ceding it to the monks of the Monastery of Santa María de Valverde in Corullón.
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