Fortun Garcés

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Fortún Garcés the one-eyed ( Basque Fortun Gartzia Begibakarra , Spanish Fortún Garcés el Tuerto ; † after 905) was King of Pamplona (Navarra) from the House of Íñiguez from 882 to 905 . He was the son of King García Íñiguez and the Urraca.

Fortun was captured by the Emir of Cordoba , Muhammad I , as early as 860 . The background to this is unclear, it is possible that he vouched for his father as a hostage. In Cordoba he was able to marry his daughter to Prince Abdallah , who later became an emir himself. After his father was killed in battle in 882, Fortún was able to return to Pamplona to apparently rule there as a vassal of the emir. Nothing further is known about his further term of office. In 905 he was deposed by Sancho I. Garcés and banished to the Abbey of San Salvador de Leire , where he died at an unknown date. With him ended the royal line founded by his grandfather Íñigo Arista , in whose place the House of Jiménez now sat. Like the Íñiguez house, it went back to Íñigo Arista's grandfather in the male line, but it was a younger line.

Fortún Garcés was married to a woman named Oria, with whom he had five children. They and their descendants were:

  1. Oneca Fortúnez; 1. ∞ with Abdallah of Córdoba († 912), 2. ∞ with Aznar Sánches of Larraún.
    1. (I) Prince Muhammad († 895); Father of the caliph Abd ar-Rahman III. († 961).
    2. (II) Sancho Aznarez.
    3. (II) Toda Aznárez († after 970); ∞ with Sancho I. Garcés († 925), King of Pamplona.
    4. (II) Sancha Aznarez; ∞ with Jimeno Garcés († 931), King of Pamplona.
  2. Íñigo Fortúnez; ∞ with Sancha Garcés, daughter of García Jiménez .
  3. Aznar Fortúnez.
    1. Fortun Aznarez.
      1. García Fortúnez de Cabanas (called 979).
  4. Velasco Fortúnez.
    1. Jimena Velásquez; ∞ with Íñigo Garcés, son of García Jiménez .
    2. Toda Velásquez.
    3. Sancha Velásquez
  5. Lope Fortúnez.

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b Textos navarros del Códice de Roda, ed. by José María Lacarra de Miguel in: Estudios de Edad Media de la Corona de Aragón. Vol. 1 (1945), §2, p. 230. ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / cema.unizar.es
  2. ↑ Textos navarros del Códice de Roda, ed. by José María Lacarra de Miguel in: Estudios de Edad Media de la Corona de Aragón. Vol. 1 (1945), p. 230, note 3. ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / cema.unizar.es
  3. ↑ Libro de Regla, ed. by José Yanguas y Miranda in: Adiciones al diccionario de antigüedades del reino de Navarra. Pamplona 1843, p. 259.

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predecessor Office successor
García Íñiguez King of Navarre
882–905 		Sancho I. Garcés
personal data
SURNAME Fortun Garcés
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fortun Gartzia Begibakarra (Basque); Fortún Garcés el Tuerto (Spanish)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION King of Pamplona (882–905)
DATE OF BIRTH 9th century
DATE OF DEATH after 905
Place of death San Salvador de Leire Abbey