[1] She was the first child of the smallholders Juan Antonio Sancho Artal and María Bonafonte Yus, and was baptised in the local church.

Sancho and other women, who were prevented from taking up arms because of their gender, were involved in distributing provisions to the city's defenders.

[1] After recovering from her wound, she was awarded by Mariano Renovales [es] with a red ribbon for her conduct as an artillerywoman and riflewoman, which she wore for the rest of her life; she also received a military pension of 2 reales per day.

Sancho was also featured as a character in Benito Pérez Galdós' historical novel Zaragoza, in which he described her as a "slender, intrepid, grandiose girl, the image of tragic serenity".

[1] Her biography was also collected in the Aragonese illustrated history book Zaurines, in which the author Ana Alcolea praised Sancho for not conforming to traditional gender roles.