known as Sancho the Founder
born 1154, Coimbra, Port.
died March 26, 1211
Second king of Portugal (1185–1211).
The son of Afonso I , he resettled depopulated areas of Portugal, established new towns, and rebuilt frontier strongholds and castles. He encouraged foreign settlers and granted large tracts to military orders. When Portugal was invaded by the Almohad Moors, he sent a Crusader fleet against them (1189), but he lost control of Portuguese lands south of the Tagus River (1191).