Sancho García, count of Castile

Events

Date of Birth: between 965 and 967.

Place of Birth: unknown.

The date is given by Torres Sevilla-Quiñones.

Date of Death: 5 February 1017.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Torres Sevilla-Quiñones.

Relationships

Father: García Fernández, count of Castilla.

This relationship is given by Martínez Diez (p. 394), by Salazar y Acha (p. 130), and by Torres Sevilla-Quiñones.

Mother: Ava de Ribagorza.

This relationship is given by Torres Sevilla-Quiñones and by Salazar y Acha (p. 130).

Spouse: Urraca (Gómez de Saldaña-Carrión).

This relationship is given by Martínez Diez (p. 394) and by Torres Sevilla-Quiñones. Torres Sevilla-Quiñones states that she was Urraca Gómez de Saldaña-Carrión. Salazar y Acha suggests that she was the daughter of Gómez Díaz and Muniadomna Fernández.

Children:

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

Muniadonna (Mayor) (born about 990 or 995 - died after 13 July 1066), countess of Castile, married Sancho III “el Mayor”, king of Navarre.

Tigridia (about 993 - after 1029). Abbess of San Salvador de Oña.

Fernando (born about 995 - died before 2 March 999).

Sancha (about 1006 - 26 June 1026) married Berenguer Ramón (I), count of Barcelona.

García (born November 1006 - assassinated 13 May 1029), count of Castile.

References

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

Salazar y Acha, Jaime de. “Urraca. Un nombre egregio en la onomástica altomedieval” in En la España medieval (1) pp. 29-48. (2006).

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

Torres Sevilla-Quiñones, Margarita. "García, Sancho" in Diccionario Biográfico electrónico (Real Academia de la Historia).

Online Biographies

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