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Family of Garcia + INIQUEZ

Partner: Garcia + INIQUEZ (c. 812-882)
Partner: (unknown)
Children: Sancho GARCES (c. 830- )
Onneca GARCES (c. 832- )
Velasquita GARCES (c. 834- )
Fortun + GARCES (c. 835-aft925)

Partner: Garcia + INIQUEZ

Name: Garcia + INIQUEZ
Sex: Male
Father: Inigo + ARISTA (c. 775- )
Mother: -
Birth 0812 (est)
Occupation King of Pamplona
Title frm 0851 to 0882 (age 38-70) King of Pamplona
Death 0882 (age 69-70)

Child 1: Sancho GARCES

Name: Sancho GARCES
Sex: Male
Birth 0830 (est)

Child 2: Onneca GARCES

Name: Onneca GARCES
Sex: Female
Birth 0832 (est)

Child 3: Velasquita GARCES

Name: Velasquita GARCES
Sex: Female
Birth 0834 (est)

Child 4: Fortun + GARCES

Name: Fortun + GARCES
Sex: Male
Nickname: The One-Eyed or The Monk
Spouse: Oria + ( - )
Birth 0835 (est)
Occupation King of Pamplona
Title frm 0882 to 0905 (age 46-70) King of Pamplona
Death aft 0925 (age 89-90)

Note on Husband: Garcia + INIQUEZ

García Íñiguez, sometimes García I, II, or III (died 882) was king of Pamplona from 851/2 until his death.

[edit] Biography

 

He was educated in Córdoba, as a guest at the court of the Emir of Córdoba. He was the son of Íñigo Arista, the first king of their dynasty. When his father was stricken by paralysis in 842, he became regent of the kingdom (or perhaps co-regent with his uncle Fortún Íñiguez). He and his kinsman Mu-sa- ibn Mu-sa- ibn Fortún of the Banu Qasi rebelled against the Cordoban emir in 843. This rebellion was put down by Emir Abd-ar-Rahman II, who attacked the Kingdom of Pamplona, defeating García badly and killing Fortún. At his father's death in 851/2, he succeeded to the crown.

 

Following the death of Íñigo Arista, the Banu Qasi leader Mu-sa- ibn Mu-sa- pursued a policy of closer allegiance with Muhammad I of Córdoba, leaving García to look to Christian Asturias for an ally. In 859, Mu-sa- ibn Mu-sa- allowed a contingent of Vikings to pass through his lands and attack Navarre, resulting in the capture García, who was forced to pay at least 70,000 gold dinars in ransom. Later the same year, Mu-sa- ibn Mu-sa- attacked the Pamplonese city of Albelda. García and his new friend Ordoño I of Asturias together dealt Mu-sa- a crushing blow, killing, it is said, 10,000 of his magnates in the Battle of Albelda. This, in turn, provoked a Muslim response and the next year, 860, saw García's son and heir Fortún captured and imprisoned by the Moors. He languished in Córdoba for the next 20 years. In 870, García formed an alliance with the Muslim rebel Amru-s ibn Umar ibn Amru-s, who had killed Garcia's nephew Mu-sa- ibn Galindo of Huesca, and the next year was apparently in a new alliance with the sons of Mu-sa- ibn Mu-sa-, now in rebellion against Córdoba.

 

García I favoured the pilgrims who travelled to Santiago de Compostela, and attempted to guarantee peace for that traffic.

 

García's death has been subject to scholarly dispute, a result of a paucity of records from the last years of his reign. The lack of subsequent mention of him after 870 led to the suggestion that he died in that year, and as his heir was in the hands of his enemies, it was argued that García Jiménez then governed the kingdom as regent. García's son, Fortún Garcés, is then made to succeed upon his released in 880. There is, however, no evidence for such a regency, and Sanchéz Albornoz has cited evidence that García was still living at the time of his son's return. Thus it is likely that Balparda was reporting accurate tradition when he suggested García and ally Umar ibn Hafsun, fought a battle at Aybar against the troops of Emir of Córdoba in 882, García dying there (although the age provided him, 84 years, is clearly exaggerated).

 

The identity of García's wife or wives is poorly documented, and has been subject to much speculation. An undated confirmation of an earlier lost charter refers to King García and Queen Urraca Mayor, and this is thought by some to refer to García Íñiguez and an otherwise unknown wife. Based on her name alone, it has been suggested that she was of the Banu Qasi, but other historians have given her different parentage, or even a different king as husband. Likewise, royal princess Leodegundia Ordoñez of Asturias, daughter of Ordoño I of Asturias, is known to have married a ruler of Pamplona, and García Íñiguez is one of those speculated to have been this prince.

 

García Íñiguez had following children:

 

Fortún Garcés, the future king.

Sancho Garcés, whose only known child, Aznar Sánchez, married a daughter of king Fortún Garcés and by her had queens Toda Aznárez, wife of king Sancho Garcés I, and Sancha Aznárez, wife of king Jimeno Garcés.

Onneca Garcés, wife of Aznar Galíndez II.

Velasquita Garcés, married to Mutarri-f ibn Mu-sa- ibn Qasi, Wali of Huesca, son of Mu-sa- ibn Mu-sa-.

(perhaps) Jimena, wife of Alfonso III of León (assignment of her parentage based on political, chronological and onomastic arguments).