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Urraca Garcés (countess)
Urraca Garcés ( – ) was a Kingdom of Pamplona, Pamplonese ''infanta'' who was by marriage the countess of Castile (961/4–970) and duchess of Gascony (972/3–994/9). She had no children by her first marriage, but three sons and four daughters by her second. Countess of Castile Urraca was born around 944, the daughter of King García Sánchez I of Pamplona and Queen Teresa Ramírez.Per , she is first mentioned in a document dated to 953. Her father's sister, Sancha Sánchez of Pamplona, Sancha Sánchez, was the wife of Count Fernán González of Castile. After Sancha died sometime between 959 and 963, the count married Urraca. The marriage took place sometime after 961, for in that year Urraca was still at the Pamplonese court, and before 5 May 964, when she is recorded beside her husband. The marriage most likely took place in 963 or 964. It did not produce children. Later popular traditions combined stories of Fernán González's two wives without naming Urraca. According to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingdom Of Pamplona
The Kingdom of Navarre ( ), originally the Kingdom of Pamplona, occupied lands on both sides of the western Pyrenees, with its northernmost areas originally reaching the Atlantic Ocean (Bay of Biscay), between present-day Spain and France. The medieval state took form around the city of Pamplona during the first centuries of the Iberian Reconquista. The kingdom had its origins in the conflict in the buffer region between the Carolingian Empire and the Ummayad Emirate of Córdoba that controlled most of the Iberian Peninsula. The city of Pamplona (; ), had been the main city of the indigenous Vasconic population and was located in a predominantly Basque-speaking area. In an event traditionally dated to 824, Íñigo Arista was elected or declared ruler of the area around Pamplona in opposition to Frankish expansion into the region, originally as vassal to the Córdoba emirate. This polity evolved into the Kingdom of Pamplona. A series of partitions and dynastic changes led to a d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
