García Ramírez from Viguera

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García Ramírez († before 1013) was probably the third and last king of Viguera from the House of Jiménez . He was the second son of King Ramiro Garcés of Viguera († 981) and brother of Sancho, who was probably the first to succeed his father.

García was married to a woman named Toda, with whom he had at least two daughters:

  • Toda Garcés († after 1050); ∞ with Fortún Sánches (X 1054), Lord of Nájera .
  • Fronilda Garcés († after 1054).

Whether García, like his older brother Sancho, ruled as kings in Viguera like their father cannot be deduced from contemporary documents and chronicles. Both appear as witnesses only in two documents of their uncle, King Sancho II. Abarca of Navarre , from the years 991 and 992, without being named with a royal title, which suggests that the uncle was not willing to them to leave her father's sub-kingdom. However, García is retrospectively referred to as king in a certificate for his daughters from 1050 and 1054. A certain Fortún Ozoiz as lord of Viguera is documented for the year 1013. Antonio Ubieto Arteta has concluded from this that the daughters of Garcías after his death their inheritance rights to Viguera to their cousin, King Sancho III. of Navarre , had ceded for other perks, so that he could use one of his followers to rule the city. Toda's husband, Fortún Sánchez, is princeps at the Navarre court in 1030 and as lord of Nájera from 1035 , which apparently compensated for his wife's renunciation of power in Viguera.

The exact year of death of García Ramírez is not known, but he is identified with the so called "great count" (qūmis kabīr) by Muslim historians , who in 1009 the son of Almansor , Abd ar-Rahman Sanchuelo , in the struggle for rule through the Caliphate of Cordoba and was executed with this in Cordoba by Muhammad II al-Mahdi .

literature

  • Antonio Ubieto Arteta: Monarcas navarros olvidados: los reyes de Viguera. In: Hispania. Revista española de historia. Vol. 10 (1950), pp. 3-24.
  • Peter C. Scales: The Fall of the Caliphate of Córdoba: Berbers and Andalusis in Conflict. BRILL, 1993.
  • Hugh N. Kennedy : Muslim Spain and Portugal. A Political History of al – Andalus , Longman, London 1996.

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b c Colección diplomática de Irache (958-1222), ed. by José María Lacarra de Miguel (1965), No. 13, p. 18.
  2. ↑ a b Cartulario de San Millán de la Cogolla (759-1076), ed. by Antonio Ubieto Arteta (1976), No. 270, p. 264.
  3. ↑ José Goñi Gaztambide: Catálogo del Becerro antiguo y del Becerro de Leyre. In: Príncípe de Viana. Vol. 24 (1963), No. 93, p. 152. Cartulario de San Millán de la Cogolla (759-1076), ed. by Antonio Ubieto Arteta (1976), No. 108, p. 117.
  4. ↑ "sennor Furtun Ozoiz dominans Vicarie ...", cf. Cartulario de San Millán de la Cogolla (759-1076), ed. by Antonio Ubieto Arteta (1976), No. 146, p. 149.
  5. ↑ See Ubieto Arteta (1950), p. 22.
  6. ↑ Colección documental de Santa María la Real de Najera I, ed. by Margarita Cantera Montenegro (1991), No. 5, p. 8.
  7. ↑ See Scales (1993), pp. 55-56 and Kennedy (1996), p. 128.

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personal data
SURNAME García Ramírez from Viguera
ALTERNATIVE NAMES García Ramírez
BRIEF DESCRIPTION King of Viguera
DATE OF BIRTH 10th century
DATE OF DEATH before 1013