Garcia Sanchez II, King of Navarre

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• Alternate death: Bef 1001

Notes:

According to Todd A. Farmerie (citation detail below), he was not called "el Tremblón" or "el Tremuloso," the Trembler; this was a latter-day confusion with his paternal grandfather. He succeeded his father in 994 and ruled less than ten years; he was last recorded as being present at a defeat in 1000.

Garcia married Jimena Fernandez before 981. Jimena (daughter of Fernándo Vermodéz and Elvira Diaz) died after 1035. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Between 990 and 992

Notes:

Count of Aragón and Castile. "Sancho Garces III, first appears as king in 1004, he would reign for 3 decades and came to be called Sancho el Mayor (the Great). He was successful in overthrowing the submission his family had been forced into over the previous three generations." [Todd A. Farmerie, citation details below.]

Family/Spouse: Sancha de Aybar. Sancha died after 27 Oct 1070. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sancho married Munia Mayor of Castile in 1010. Munia (daughter of Sancho Garcia and Urraca Gomez) died 1032 or after 1066. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"Apparently born before 1007, he was the illegitimate son of Sancho III of Navarre by his mistress Sancha de Aybar. Ramiro was reputed to have been adopted by his father's wife Mayor after he was the only of his father's children to come to her aid when needed, although there is no surviving record of these events and the story is probably apocryphal." [Wikipedia]

"Ramiro's exact status is vague. He was called king by his vassals, neighbors, the church and even his sons, yet he always referred to himself simply as Ranimiro Sancioni regis filio (Ramiro, son of King Sancho). Likewise, in his two wills, he refers to his lands as having been given him in stewardship: in the first by García, and in the second by God. He is called regulus (rather than rex used for García) and quasi pro rege (acting as if king) in charters from Navarre. Due to his growing independence and the small size of his Pyrenean holdings, he is sometimes called a 'petty king', Aragon a 'pocket kingdom'." [Wikipedia]

Family/Spouse: Gilberga de Couserans. Gilberga (daughter of Bernardo Roger and Garsenda) died in 1054. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Killed in the Battle of Atapuerca.

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Sancha of Leon. Sancha (daughter of Alfonso V, King of Leon and Elvira Menéndez) was born in 1013; died on 27 Nov 1067. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1045

Notes:

Ancestral Roots and other sources to the contrary, he was probably never married to Philippa of Toulouse (1073-1117), wife of William IX of Aquitaine. Wikipedia's article on Philippa of Toulouse cites two sources to this effect:

"Szabolcs de Vajay, 'Ramire II le Moine, roi d'Aragon et Agnes de Poitou dans l'histoire et la légende', in Me?langes offerts a? Rene? Crozet, 2 vol, Poitiers, 1966, vol 2, p 727-750; and Ruth E Harvey, 'The wives of the first troubadour Duke William IX of Aquitaine', in Journal of Medieval History, vol 19, 1993, p 315. Harvey states that, contrary to prior assumptions, William IX was certainly Philippa of Toulouse's only husband. Vajay states that the marriage to an unnamed king of Aragon reported by a non-contemporary chronicler is imaginary even though it has appeared broadly in modern histories, and likewise he cites J de Salarrullana de Dios, Documentos correspondientes al reinado de Sancho Ramirez, Saragossa, 1907, vol I, nr 51, p 204-207 to document that Sancho's wife Felicie was clearly still married to him just months before his death, making the marriage to Philippa several years earlier, as reported in several modern popular biographies of her granddaughter, completely unsupportable."

Sancho married Felicia of Roucy in 1076. Felicia (daughter of Hildouin IV de Montdidier and Adele de Roucy) was born about 1050. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Illegitimate son of Garcia III of Navarre; not to be confused with Garcia's son Sancho who ruled as Sancho IV and was murdered by his siblings. The later kings are descended from the bastard son shown here.

Died in the "treachery of Rueda."

Sancho married Constance before 25 Nov 1057. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 30 Jun 1109, Toledo, Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

Family/Spouse: Ximena Moniz. Ximena died in 1128. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Isabel. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alfonso married Constance of Burgundy in 1079. Constance (daughter of Robert I and Helie of Semur) was born in 1046; died in 1092; was buried in Royal Monastery of San Benito, Sahagun, León, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]