Sancho, Count of Provence

Sancho
Partially preserved seal of Sancho of Provence
Count of Provence
Reign1181–1185
PredecessorRamon Berenguer III
SuccessorAlfonso II
Count of Cerdanya
Reign1175–1188
PredecessorPeter
SuccessorNuño Sánchez
Count of Roussillon
Reign1208–1212
SuccessorNuño Sánchez
Died1223
SpouseErmessenda
Sancha Nuñez de Lara
IssueNuño, Count of Cerdanya
HouseBarcelona
FatherRamon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona
MotherPetronilla of Aragon

Sancho (died 1223), also spelled Sanç or Sanche,[a] was a Catalano-Aragonese nobleman and statesman, the youngest son of Queen Petronilla of Aragon and Count Raymond Berengar IV of Barcelona. He was at different times the count of Cerdanya (c.1175–1188), Provence (1181–1185), Gévaudan, Rodez and Carlat (1183–1185), and Roussillon (1208–1212).[b] He served as the regent of Provence from 1209 until 1218 during the minority of Count Raymond Berengar IV, and as regent of Aragon from 1214 until 1218, during the minority of King James I.
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