Sancho I Ramírez Rey de León
- Born: Abt 933, León, Asturias, Iberia 182
- Marriage: Teresa Ansúrez
- Died: Dec 966, León, Asturias, Iberia about age 33 182,493
 Noted events in his life were:
• Dates & Events. 493
Sancho challenged the succession of his brother in 951, supported by Queen Toda regent of Navarre. He succeeded his brother, 955, as Sancho I "el Craso" King of León. Faced with King Sancho's unwillingness to renew his predecessor's peace agreement with the Caliph, the latter launched another campaign against León in 957. In 958 Galician nobles dissatisfied with his rule deposed King Sancho in favour of his cousin King Ordońo IV. He sought refuge in Navarre, where he was cured of his obesity by the Jewish doctor Yusuf Hasday ben Sahprut.
Allied with García III Sánchez King of Navarre and Caliph Abd al-Rahman III, he took Zamora in 959, forced King Ordońo IV to flee to Asturias and retook the throne in 960. After his rival ex-King Ordońo IV convinced Caliph Al-Hakam II to provide military support for his restoration in León, King Sancho sent ambassadors to the caliph and persuaded him to withdraw his support in return for accepting the caliph's suzerainty. After ex-King Ordońo died later in 962, King Sancho reneged on his pact with the caliph and made an alliance with the conde de Castilla, the King of Navarre and the conde de Barcelona. He was poisoned by conde Gonzalo Muńoz.
He married, in 960, Teresa Ansúrez, daughter of conde Anzar Fernández & his wife Gontroda Núńez. After her son's defeat, she took refuge in Oviedo where she arranged her grandson's marriage with the son of Queen Velasquita, also exiled in Oviedo.
Sancho married Teresa Ansúrez, daughter of Ansur Fernández and Gontroda Núńez. (Teresa Ansúrez was born in Iberian Peninsula and died after 997 in Oviedo, Asturias, Iberia 487.)
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