García (Galicia)

García (* 1042 ; † March 22, 1090 ) was a king of Galicia from the house of Jiménez .

Life

Garcia was the youngest of five children of King Ferdinand I of León-Castile and the Sancha of León . His older siblings were Urraca , Sancho II , Elvira and Alfons VI.

The geopolitical map of Spain in the late 11th century.

Before his death in 1065, Ferdinand I had agreed to divide his sovereign territory among his sons. While Sancho II with Castile and Alfonso VI. were endowed with León , García received the Kingdom of Galicia with the tributary Muslim Taifa of Badajoz . The county of Portugal , which stretched from the Rio Miño to Coimbra , also belonged to his kingdom . Their count, Nuno Mendes , rose up immediately against García, who was able to kill the count in February 1071 at the Battle of Pedroso and thus bring Portugal back under his direct control.

García could not enjoy this victory for long. After his mother died in 1067, the three brothers began a power struggle over their father's entire inheritance. In June 1071, Sancho II moved from Burgos through León to Galicia and forced the defeated García to flee to the Moorish typhoon king of Seville . When Sancho II died in the autumn of 1072, García was able to return to his kingdom, but was then in 1073 by Alfonso VI. captured on the pretext of a peace talks. In this way, Alfonso VI. reunite the kingdom of the father under his rule. García died after 17 years of imprisonment and was buried in the Abbey of San Isidoro in León .

literature

Bernard F. Reilly: The Kingdom of León-Castilla under King Alfonso VI 1065-1109. Princeton University Press, 1988 ( online ).

Individual evidence

↑ Historia Silense, ed. by Simon Barton and Richard Fletcher in: The World of El Cid: Chronicles of the Spanish Reconquest. Manchester University Press, 2000, §8, p. 30 and §81, p. 45.
↑ Crónica del Obispo Don Pelayo, ed. by Benito Sánchez Alonso (1924), p. 76. Chronicon Compostelana, ed. by Enríque Flórez in: España Sagrada. Vol. 20 (1765), p. 609.
↑ Crónica del Obispo Don Pelayo, ed. by Benito Sánchez Alonso (1924), p. 31. Chronicon Lusitanum, ed. by Enríque Flórez in: España Sagrada. Vol. 14 (1786), p. 405.
↑ Chronicon Compostelana, ed. by Enríque Flórez in: España Sagrada. Vol. 20 (1765), pp. 609-610. Chronicon Regum Legionensium, ed. by Simon Barton and Richard Fletcher in: The World of El Cid: Chronicles of the Spanish Reconquest. Manchester University Press, 2000, p. 84.
↑ Annales Compostellani, ed. by Enríque Flórez in: España Sagrada. Vol. 23 (1765), p. 321. Chronicon Compostellani, ed. by Enríque Flórez in: España Sagrada. Vol. 23 (1765), p. 327. Historia Silense, ed. by Simon Barton and Richard Fletcher in: The World of El Cid: Chronicles of the Spanish Reconquest. Manchester University Press, 2000, §13, p. 34.

predecessor	Office	successor
Ferdinand I.	King of Galicia 1065-1071	Alfonso VI

personal data
SURNAME	García
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Garcia of Galicia; García de Galicia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	King of Galicia
DATE OF BIRTH	1042
DATE OF DEATH	March 22, 1090

[1] Historia Silense, ed. by Simon Barton and Richard Fletcher in: The World of El Cid: Chronicles of the Spanish Reconquest. Manchester University Press, 2000, §8, p. 30 and §81, p. 45.

[2] Crónica del Obispo Don Pelayo, ed. by Benito Sánchez Alonso (1924), p. 76. Chronicon Compostelana, ed. by Enríque Flórez in: España Sagrada. Vol. 20 (1765), p. 609.

[3] Crónica del Obispo Don Pelayo, ed. by Benito Sánchez Alonso (1924), p. 31. Chronicon Lusitanum, ed. by Enríque Flórez in: España Sagrada. Vol. 14 (1786), p. 405.

[4] Chronicon Compostelana, ed. by Enríque Flórez in: España Sagrada. Vol. 20 (1765), pp. 609-610. Chronicon Regum Legionensium, ed. by Simon Barton and Richard Fletcher in: The World of El Cid: Chronicles of the Spanish Reconquest. Manchester University Press, 2000, p. 84.

[5] Annales Compostellani, ed. by Enríque Flórez in: España Sagrada. Vol. 23 (1765), p. 321. Chronicon Compostellani, ed. by Enríque Flórez in: España Sagrada. Vol. 23 (1765), p. 327. Historia Silense, ed. by Simon Barton and Richard Fletcher in: The World of El Cid: Chronicles of the Spanish Reconquest. Manchester University Press, 2000, §13, p. 34.