Family of Sancho + GARCIA and Urraca + SALVADORES

Husband:	Sancho + GARCIA (975-1017)
Wife:	Urraca + SALVADORES (c. 980-1025)
Children:	Sancha + SANCHEZ (1006-1026)

Husband: Sancho + GARCIA

Name:	Sancho + GARCIA
Sex:	Male
Father:	Garcia + FERNANDEZ (938-995)
Mother:	-
Birth	0975	Castile, Spain
Occupation		Count of Castile and Alava
Title	frm 0995 to 1017 (age 19-42)	Count of Castile and Alava
Death	1017 (age 41-42)

Wife: Urraca + SALVADORES

Name:	Urraca + SALVADORES
Sex:	Female
Father:	-
Mother:	-
Birth	0980 (est)	Castile, Spain
Death	20 May 1025 (age 44-45)	Covarrubias, Burgos, Castile-Leon, Spain

Child 1: Sancha + SANCHEZ

Note on Husband: Sancho + GARCIA

Sancho García (died 1017), called of the Good Laws (in Spanish, el de los Buenos Fueros), was the count of Castile and Álava from 995 to his death.

[edit] Biography

 

Sancho was the son of count García Fernández and his wife Aba of Ribagorza. He rebelled against his father with the support of Al-Mansur of Córdoba. This resulted in the partition of the county between father and son, and the county was not reunited until his father's death five years later. He renewed the Reconquista by rebelling against Almanzor, alongside his brother-in-law/cousin García Gómez and their mutual cousin García Sánchez II of Pamplona. Sancho led the coalition that was defeated at the Battle of Cervera in July 1000, but in early September successfully turned back the Córdoban invasion of his county. Almanzor was again campaigning against Sancho in 1002 when another battle occurred, remembered by the Christians as the Battle of Calatañazor and Muslims as the Pedroso expedition. The two sides report different outcomes to the battle itself, but Almanzor died of injuries received in the conflict, removing Sancho's primary antagonist and leaving the Caliphate of Córdoba in crisis. Sancho ruled for another 15 years. In 1010, he intervened in Ribagorza, bringing about an end to muslim domination there and leading to the abdication of his aunt countess Toda, and the establishment of a partition between Castilian-educated William Isarn, illegitimate son of Toda's brother and predecessor count Isarn, and Raymond Sunyer of Pallars, husband of Sancho's sister Mayor. Following his death in 1017, he was succeeded by his own son García.

[edit] Family and issue

 

Sancho married his cousin Urraca Gómez, sister of count García Gómez and daughter Beni Gómez leader, count Gómez Díaz of Saldaña by Muniadona Fernández of Castile, Sancho's aunt. They had:

 

Muniadona Mayor, eldest daughter, married Sancho III of Navarre, through whom right to the county eventually passed.

Ferdinand, died before 2 March 999

Tigridia, abbess of San Salvador de Oña, which he founded for her to direct.

Sancha, married Berenguer Ramon I, Count of Barcelona

García, who succeeded his father

 

They may also have been parents of:

 

Urraca, wife of Sancho VI William of Gascony