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Sancho Garcés III (c. 992–996 – 18 October 1035), also known as Sancho the Great (Spanish: Sancho el Mayor, Basque: Antso Gartzez Nagusia), was the King of Pamplona from 1004 until his death in 1035. He also ruled the County of Aragon and by marriage the counties of Castile, Álava and Monzón.
Sancho III the Great 1004–1035: 985 son of García Sánchez II and Jimena Fernández of Cea: Muniadona of Castile 1010 4 children: 18 October 1035 García Sánchez III 1035–1054: 1016 son of Sancho III the Great and Muniadona of Castile: Estefanía of Barcelona 1038 9 children: 15 September 1054 Atapuerca: Sancho IV Garcés 1054–1076: 1039
In 1199 Alfonso VIII of Castile, son of Sancho III of Castile and Blanche of Navarre, was determined to take over coastal Navarre, a strategic region that would allow Castile much easier access to European wool markets and would isolate Navarre as well.
García Sánchez III married Stephanie of Foix in Barcelona in 1038. Stephanie was the youngest daughter of either Bernard-Roger, Count of Bigorre [4] or Berenguer Ramon I, Count of Barcelona. [5] They had nine children: Sancho Garcés, nicknamed Sancho the Noble, who became King of Pamplona and ruled as Sancho IV from
Margaret of Navarre c. 1135 –1183: Sancho VI the Wise 1132–1194 King of Navarre r. 1150–1194: Sancha of Castile 1139–1179: Blanche of Navarre aft. 1133–1156: Sancho III c. 1134 –1158 King of Castile r. 1157–1158: Richard I the Lionheart King of England 1157–1199: Berengaria of Navarre c. 1165 /1170–1230: Blanche Countess of ...
Sancho III (c. 1134 – 31 August 1158), called the Desired (el Deseado), [a] was King of Castile and Toledo for one year, from 1157 to 1158. He was the son of Alfonso VII of León and Castile and his wife Berengaria of Barcelona, and was succeeded by his son Alfonso VIII. His nickname was due to his position as the first child of his parents ...
The Kingdom of Navarre became a fully independent kingdom in 905 and, under the reign of Sancho III of Pamplona, became the most powerful Christian state on the Iberian Peninsula in the 11th century. In 1164 the name "Kingdom of Navarre" was definitively abandoned and renamed the Kingdom of Navarre, a name that had been used before.
In Labourd, the viscounty, seemingly created by Sancho III of Navarre, known as "the Great," between 1021 and 1023, holds direct administrative and judicial powers, while its subjects are consulted on certain matters. Briefly, the viscount possesses the highest ownership over the lands of the viscounty, as well as over inhabited places.