谁嫁给了Blanca of Navarre, Queen of Castile？

Blanca (Basque: Blanka Garzeitz, Spanish: Blanca Garcés; aft. 1133, Laguardia, Álava – August 12, 1156) was Queen consort of Castile, daughter of King García Ramírez of Navarre and his first wife, Margaret of L'Aigle. Blanca married Sancho III of Castile. One year after her death he became King of Castile in 1157 regent of Castile (subject to his father Alfonso VII) on February 4, 1151 in Carrión de los Condes, Palencia, after travelling from Calahorra, Logroño, in January. The marriage was arranged to insure closer ties between León-Castile and Navarre. As was traditional, Blanca confirmed documents with her husband, so her activity may be traced until 1155.

On November 11, 1155 she gave birth to the future king Alfonso VIII. There appears to be no record of her activities after December 1155, and she died on August 12, 1156. The cause of her death seems to have been complications of a new pregnancy, a child named García. In addition, she had other children buried in the church of San Pedro in Soria, although they are not identified.

That her death was caused by a pregnancy is recorded in an epitaph engraved on her tomb; however, the engraving did not survive a sixteenth-century reconstruction of the royal tombs in Nájera. Her sarcophagus lid was preserved, and it represents the queen's deathbed with members of the court, including her husband, mourning her death. Blanca was buried in the pantheon of the Navarrese kings in the monastery called Santa María la Real of Nájera, to which Sancho made donations on her behalf.

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桑喬三世（Sancho III，1134年—1158年8月31日）卡斯提爾國王（1157年－1158年在位）。

桑喬三世為阿方索七世之長子，1157年父王去世時將王國一分為二，身為長子的桑喬三世繼承卡斯提爾國王王位、三子斐迪南二世繼承雷昂王位。在桑喬三世死前不久，兩兄弟剛簽訂盟約。桑喬三世死後，由他唯一的子嗣阿方索八世繼位。

桑喬三世於1151年迎娶納瓦拉國王加西亞·拉米雷斯之女布蘭卡，二人至少誕下兩子：

1. 阿方索八世
2. 加西亞王子，於1156年早夭，布蘭卡因此難產而死。

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