García VI “el Restaurador”, king of Navarre

Events

Date of Birth: about 1100.

Place of Birth: unknown.

The date is given by Pérez de Ciriza and by Salazar y Acha (p. 101).

Date of Death: 21 November 1150.

Place of Death: Lorca, Navarra.

The date and place are given by Pérez de Ciriza and by Salazar y Acha (p. 102).

Relationships

Father: Ramiro Sánchez de Navarra, lord of Monzón.

This relationship is given by Martínez Díez (p. 420), by Pérez de Ciriza, and by Vones.

Mother: Cristina Rodríguez.

This relationship is given by Martínez Díez (p. 420), by Pérez de Ciriza, and by Vones.

Spouse: Marguerite de l’Aigle. Married after 1130.

This relationship is given by Vones, by Pérez de Ciriza, by Salazar y Acha (p. 102), and by Martínez de Aguirre.

Spouse: Urraca Alfonso de Castilla “la Asturiana”. Married 24 June 1144 in León.

This relationship is given by Vones, by Pérez de Ciriza, by Salazar y Acha (p. 102), and by Martínez de Aguirre.

Children (by Marguerite):

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

Sancho VI “el Sabio” (1132 - 27 June 1194), king of Navarre, married Sancha de Castilla.

Blanca (about 1133 - 12 August 1156), married Sancho III “el Deseado”, king of Castile.

Margarita (about 1135 - 1182) married Guillaume I “le Mauvais”, king of Sicily.

Children (by Urraca):

Sancha (about 1146 - before 1176) married (1) Gaston (V), vicomte of Béarn; married (2) count Pedro Manrique de Lara.

Children (by illegitimate):

Rodrigo García married an illegitimate daughter of Roger II, king of Sicily.

References

Cokayne, G.E., and G.W. Watson. The Seize Quartiers of the Kings and Queens of England. (1896).

Martínez de Aguirre, Javier. “Margarita de l’Aigle & Urraca la Asturiana” in Reinas de Navarra (Julia Pavón, ed.), (Madrid, 2014), pp. 267-297.

Martínez Díez, Gonzalo. El Cid historico. (Barcelona:1999).

Pérez de Ciriza, Luis Javier Fortún. "García IV Ramírez," 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 (Ramírez) IV." in Lexikon des Mittelalters. Band 4 (Stuttgart: 1989).

Online Biographies

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