García Fernández, count of Castile

Events

Date of Birth: about 941.

Place of Birth: unknown.

The date is given by Salazar y Acha (p. 128).

Date of Death: 29 July 995.

Place of Death: Medinaceli.

The date and place are given by Martínez Díez (DBe).

Place of Burial: Tres Santos, Córdoba, later moved to San Pedro de Cardeñas.

The place is given by Vones.

Relationships

Father: Fernán González, count of Castile.

This relationship is given by Martínez Diez (p. 394), by Salazar y Acha (p. 128), and by Vones.

Mother: Sancha Sánchez de Navarra.

This relationship is given by Martínez Diez (p. 394) and by Salazar y Acha (p. 128).

Spouse: Ava de Ribagorza.

This relationship is given by Martínez Diez (p. 460), by Salazar y Acha (p. 128), and by Vones.

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Urraca (born about 963 - still living 1 November 1032), abbess of Covarrubias.

Sancho García (about 965 - 5 February 1017), count of Castile, married Urraca.

Gonzalo (born about 966).

Toda (born about 968 - still living 24 February 1036) married Sancho Gómez de Saldaña.

Elvira (born about 975 - died December 1017) married Vermudo II “el Gotoso”, king of León.

Mayor (born about 980) married Raimundo III Suniario, count of Pallars.

References

Martínez Diez, Gonzalo. El Condado de Castilla (711-1038): la historia frente a la leyenda. (Macial Pons: 2005).

Martínez Díez, Gonzalo. “García Fernández" in Diccionario Biográfico electrónico (Real Academia de la Historia).

Salazar y Acha, Jaime de. Las dinastías reales de España en la Edad Media. (Real Academia de la Historia, 2021).

Vones, L. "Garcia (Garcí) Fernández" in Lexikon des Mittelalters. Band 4 (Stuttgart: 1989).

Online Biographies

García Fernández (Diccionario Biográfico electrónico; Real Academia de la Historia)