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)