Gonzalo of Sobrarbe and Ribagorza
Gonzalo († June 26, 1045 near Monclús) was king of a short-lived kingdom from 1035 to 1045 that included the regions of Ribagorza and Sobrarbe . He was one of four sons of King Sancho III. from Navarre and the third from his marriage to Munia Mayor of Castile ; his brothers were García III. of Navarre († 1054) and Ferdinand I of León-Castile († 1065), as well as the half-brother Ramiro I of Aragón († 1063).
Sancho III. During his energetic rule, he built the Basque Navarre, and with it the ruling House of Jiménez, into a hegemonic power among the Christian empires of the Iberian Peninsula , especially by taking over Castile, which borders on Navarre to the west, and then securing the Leonese royal crown for his dynasty. But he was also able to expand his empire to the east into the Pyrenees region through the annexation of the County of Ribagorza and the Sobrarbe landscape associated with it . Both regions originally belonged to the Spanish Mark of the Franconian Empire founded by Charlemagne , but were already closely tied to the Navarres royal house through dynastic ties of their count house. The extinction of the old count house in 1017 had Sancho III. offered the opportunity to incorporate them into his kingdom.
Before his death in 1035, Sancho III. divided his kingdom among his four sons. The eldest García III. had received the ancestral land of Navarre, while the youngest Ferdinand I took over the inherited Castile and the right to the Leonese crown. The illegitimate Ramiro I had received the relatively small Aragón, which was also once a county of the Spanish march and had already been annexed by Navarre at an earlier date, just as Gonzalo had received the smallest share of his father's inheritance with Ribagorza and Sobrarbe. However, like all his brothers, he was awarded the royal dignity for this, with which he is first mentioned in a document issued in the monastery of San Juan de la Peña from August 22, 1036 (rex Gundesalbus in Ripagorza) . Little is known about his rule in his small kingdom, only eight documents signed by him are known, in which he was merely a witness for the actions of his brothers Ramiro I and García III. occurs, which does not speak for an independent rule. He is not even mentioned in contemporary chronicles. His murder on June 26, 1045 by one of his followers who had thrown him from a bridge near Monclús into the Ésera is only described in two late chronicles from the 13th and 14th centuries. He was buried in the monastery of San Victorián near El Pueyo de Araguás . The small kingdom of Sobrarbe-Ribagorza was united with Aragón by Ramiro I.
literature
- Justo Pérez de Urbel: La división del reino por Sancho el Mayor. In: Hispania. Revista española de historia. 14: 3-26 (1954).
- Antonio Ubieto Arteta: Gonzalo, rey de Sobrarbe y Ribagorza. In: Pirineos. 8: 299-322 (1952).
- Antonio Ubieto Arteta: Sobrarbe y Ribagorza entre los anos 1035 and 1045. In: Príncipe de Viana. Vol. 21 (1960), pp. 163-173.
Remarks
- ↑ See Ubieto Arteta (1960), p. 164.
- ↑ See Ubieto Arteta (1960), pp. 164-165.
- ↑ Fragmentum historicum. Ex cartulario Alaonis, ed. by Enríque Flórez in: España Sagrada. Vol. 46 (1836), p. 327. Historia de la Corona de Aragón: Crónica de San Juan de la Peña: Part aragonesa , ed. by T. Ximénez de Embún y Val (1876), §16, pp. 44-45.
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predecessor | Office | successor |
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Sancho III. of Navarre | King of Sobrarbe and Ribagorza 1035-1045 |
Ramiro I of Aragon |
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SURNAME | Gonzalo |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | King of Sobrarbe and Ribagorza |
DATE OF BIRTH | 11th century |
DATE OF DEATH | June 26, 1045 |
Place of death | Monclús |