Jimeno Garcés,, ''Garsianes'' or ''Garcianes'', or ''Semeno'' (''Xemeno'') ''Garsiez''. sometimes Jimeno II (died 932/3), was the

King of Pamplona The Kingdom of Navarre (; , , , ), originally the Kingdom of Pamplona (), was a Basque kingdom that occupied lands on both sides of the western Pyrenees, alongside the Atlantic Ocean between present-day Spain and France. The medieval state to ...

from 925 until his death. He was the brother of King Sancho I Garcés and son of

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by his second wife, Dadildis of Pallars. When his brother died, Sancho's only son, García Sánchez, was still a child and Jimeno succeeded his brother, becoming the second ruler of the Jiménez dynasty.

Reign

In 927, Jimeno took an army south to support Muhammad ibn Lubb ibn Muhammad of the

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against the Córdoba-allied

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, and Jimeno's presence there forced

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, Emir of Córdoba to retreat without offering battle. By 928 at the latest Jimeno's nephew García was "formally associated ... as joint ruler". A document in the archives of the

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confirming a boundary settlement reached under King Fortún Garcés was issued when " he aforementioned KingJimeno Garcés was ruling with his ward the Lord García in Pamplona and in Deyo.html" ;"title="San_Esteban_de_Deyo.html" ;"title="/nowiki>San Esteban de Deyo">Deyo">San_Esteban_de_Deyo.html" ;"title="/nowiki>San Esteban de Deyo">Deyo/nowiki>." Upon his death in 932 or 933 his nephew, now García Sánchez I of Pamplona, ruled alone under the tutelage of his mother Toda, who was doubly Jimeno's sister-in-law.

Marriage and children

Jimeno married Sancha Aznárez, daughter of Aznar Sánchez of Larraun and granddaughter of king Fortún Garcés, and thus a sister of Sancho's queen, Toda Aznárez. As such, she was a close kinswoman of Abd-ar-Rahman III. Sancha and Jimeno had three children: García, who went with his mother to Gascony; Sancho, who married Quissilo, daughter of García, count in Bailo; and Dadildis, wife of Muza Aznar, son of the wali of Huesca, al-Tawil, and grandson of

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. By a mistress Jimeno had another son, also named García, who died at Córdoba.

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* * * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Jimeno Garces of Pamplona 930s deaths 10th-century Navarrese monarchs Year of birth unknown