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Sancho, 1st Count of Alburquerque
Sancho Enríquez de Castilla of Alburquerque (1342 - 1375) is known in Spanish as Don Sancho Enríquez de Castilla, Infante de Castilla, 1. Conde de Alburquerque. He was the ninth of the ten illegitimate children of King Alfonso XI of Castile and Lady Eleanor of Guzman.
He was born in Seville. He participated in a revolt of the Castilian nobles against the despotic rule of his brother Pedro of Castile. In 1373 he married Beatrice of Portugal, daughter of Peter I of Portugal and Inês de Castro. They had two children: Don Fernando Sánchez, 2nd Count of Alburquerque, and Doña Eleanor of Alburquerque, who married Ferdinand I of Aragon. He also had an illegitimate daughter, Doña Leonor Sánchez de Castilla.This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Sancho,_1st_Count_of_Alburquerque". The list of authors you can find on this page.