Sancho Garcés I, king of Pamplona

Events

Date of Birth: about 880.

Place of Birth: unknown.

The date is given by Settipani (p. 101) and by Salazar y Acha (p. 90). Ubieto Arteta (1960, p. 71) gives 859. Martín Duque gives about 887.

Date of Death: 11 December 925.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Martín Duque and by Salazar y Acha (p. 90). Ubieto Arteta (1963, p. 79) gives 10 December 925.

Relationships

Father: García Jiménez, king of Pamplona.

This relationship is given by Settipani (p. 101), by Martín Duque, by Leroy, and by Salazar y Acha (p. 90).

Mother: Dadildis de Pallars.

This relationship is given by Settipani (p. 101), by Martín Duque, by Leroy, and by Salazar y Acha (p. 90). Aurell gives her father as count Llop. Stasser also gives count Loup of Bigorre, and her mother as a daughter of Raymond I, count of Toulouse, and Berthelz. Martín Duque states that she was the sister of Raymond, first count of Ribagorza and Pallars.

Spouse: Toda Aznárez.

This relationship is given by Martínez Diez (p. 174, p. 394), by Martín Duque, by Leroy, by Settipani (p. 101), and by Salazar y Acha (p. 90).

Children (by Toda):

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

Sancha (born about 906 - died after 4 September 959) married (1) Ordoño II, king of Asturias and León; married (2) Álvaro Herrámeliz; married (3) Fernando González, conde de Castillo.

Oneca (born about 908 - died after 11 April 931) married Alfonso IV “el Monje”, king of León.

Urraca (born about 910 - died 23 June 956) married Ramiro II, king of León.

Velasquita (born about 912) married (1) Munio, count of Biscay; married (2) Galindo de Ribaborza; married (3) Fortún Galíndez.

Orbita (born about 915).

García Sánchez I (919 - 22 February 970), king of Navarre, married (1) Andregoto Galíndez, condesa de Aragón; married (2) Teresa.

Children (illegitimate):

Lupa (born about 900 - died about 945).

References

Aurell, Martin. “Du nouveau sur les comtesses catalanes (IXe-XIIe siècles)“ in Annales du Midi : revue archéologique, historique et philologique de la France méridionale Année 1997 Volume 109 Numéro 219 pp. 357-380.

Cawley, Charles. “SANCHO García” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

Leroy, B. Navarra genealogical table in volume 9 of Lexikon des Mittelalters. Munich: LexMA-Verlag, 1980-1998.

Martín Duque, Ángel. "Sancho I Garcés ," in Diccionario Biográfico electrónico (Real Academia de la Historia).

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

Salas Merino, Vicente. La Genealogía de Los Reyes de España. (2008)

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

“Sanç I de Pamplona” in Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana.

Settipani, Christian. La noblesse du midi carolingien (Prosopographica et Genealogica Volume 5:2004).

Stasser, Thierry. “Origine familiale de trois comtesses de Pallars” in Anuario de Estudios Medievales 26 (1996).

Ubieto Arteta, Antonio. “Los reyes pamploneses entre 905 y 970” in Principe de Viana (Año no. 24, no. 90-91, 1963, pp. 77-82).

Ubieto Arteta, Antonio. “La dinastia Jimena” in Saitabi: revista de la Facultat de Geografia i Història (No. 10, 1960, pp. 65-79).