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Sancha
Daughter of Garcias, King of Navare, and wife of Fernan
Gonsalez of Castile. She twice saved the life of the count her husband,
once on his road to Navarre, being waylaid by personal enemies and cast
into a dungeon, she liberated him by bribing the gaoler. The next time
was when Fernan was waylaid and held prisoner at Leon. On this occasion
she effected his escape by changing clothes with him.
The tale resembles that of the Countess of Nithsdale, who effected
the escape of her husband from the Tower on February 23rd, 1715; and
that of the Countess de Lavalette, who, in 1815, liberated the count
her husband from prison by changing clothes with him.
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