On January 18, 1174, she married King Alfonso II of Aragon at Zaragoza; they had at least eight children who survived into adulthood. Constance, married Emeric of Hungary and later Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor Eleanor, married Raymond VI of Toulouse Peter the Catholic, successor Douce (Dolça), nun Alfonso, Count of Provence Ferdinand, Abbot of Montearagon, d. after 1227 Ramon Berenguer, d. in the 1190s Sancha of Aragon, married Raymond VII of Toulouse, in March 1211. They had one daughter, Joan, and were divorced in 1241. After her husband died at Perpignan in 1196, Sancha was relegated to the background of political affairs by her son Peter II. She retired from court, withdrawing to the convent for noble ladies, the Monastery of Santa María de Sigena, at Sigena, which she had founded. There she assumed the cross of the Order of St John of Jerusalem which she wore until the end of her life.