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Birth:          ABT 1112 Navarre
Death:          21 Nov 1150 Larca de navarra

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garc%C3%ADa_Ram%C3%ADrez_of_Navarre
García Ramírez, sometimes García IV, V, VI or VII (c. 1112 – 21 November 1150), 
called the Restorer (Spanish: el Restaurador), was Lord of Monzón and Logroño, and, 
from 1134, King of Navarre. He restored the independence of the Navarrese crown 
after 58 years of union with the Kingdom of Aragon.
Early years[edit]

García was born in the early twelfth century. His father, Ramiro Sánchez of Monzón, 
was son of Sancho Garcés, illegitimate son of García Sánchez III of Navarre and 
half-brother of Sancho IV. His mother Cristina was a daughter of Rodrigo Díaz de 
Vivar, better known as El Cid.

Rise to power[edit]

In 1076, as a consequence of the murder of king Sancho IV by his siblings, Navarre 
had been united with Aragon. However, with the loss of the childless warrior king 
Alfonso the Battler in 1134 the succession fell into dispute. In his unusual will, Alfonso 
had left the combined kingdoms to three crusading orders, which effectively 
neutralized the Papacy from exercising a role in selecting among the potential 
candidates. The nobility immediately rejected the will, with that of Aragon favoring 
Alfonso's younger brother Ramiro, a monk. The nobility of Navarre, skeptical of Ramiro 
having the necessary temperament to resist the incursions by their western neighbor, 
another claimant, king Alfonso VII of León and Castile, and perhaps chafing under the 
continued Aragonese hegemony,[1] initially favored a different candidate, Pedro de 
Atarés, a grandson of Alfonso's illegitimate uncle, Sancho Ramírez, Count of 
Ribagorza. A convocation of the bishops and nobility was convened at Pamplona to 
decide between Pedro and Ramiro, but were so alienated by Pedro's arrogance that 
they abandoned him in favor of a scion of their own dynasty, García Ramírez, Lord of 
Monzón, like Pedro descended from an illegitimate brother of a former king. He was 
duly elected by the nobility and clergy of Navarre, while Ramiro was enthroned by that 
of Aragon and strongly opposed García's election in Navarre.

In light of this, the Bishop of Pamplona granted García his church's treasure to fund 
his government against Ramiro's pretensions.[2] Among García's other early 
supporters were Lop Ennechones, Martinus de Leit, and Count Latro, who carried out 
negotiations on the king's behalf with Ramiro.[3] Eventually, however, in January 1135 
with the Pact of Vadoluongo the two monarchs reached a mutual accord of 
"adoption": García was deemed the "son" and Ramiro the "father" in an attempt to 
maintain both the independence of each kingdom and the de facto supremacy of the 
Aragonese one. In May 1135, García declared himself a vassal of Alfonso VII. This 
simultaneously put him under the protection and lordship of Castile and bought 
recognition of his royal status from Alfonso, who was a claimant to the Battler's 
succession.[4] García's submission to Castile has been seen as an act of protection 
for Navarre that had the consequence of putting her in an offensive alliance against 
Aragon and, now that García had turned to Alfonso, forced Ramiro to marry and to 
produce an heir and to forge an alliance with Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of 
Barcelona.[5] On the other hand, García may have been responding to Ramiro's 
marriage, which proved beyond a doubt that the king of Aragon was seeking another 
heir than his distant relative and adopted son.[6]


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Before September 1135, Alfonso VII granted García Zaragoza as a fief.[7] Recently 
conquered from Aragon, this outpost of Castilian authority in the east was clearly 
beyond the military capacity of Alfonso to control and provided further reasons for 
recognition of García in Navarre in return for not only his homage, but his holding 
Zaragoza on behalf of Castile. In 1136, Alfonso was forced to do homage for Zaragoza 
to Ramiro and to recognise him as King of Zaragoza. In 1137, Zaragoza was 
surrendered to Raymond Berengar, though Alfonso retained suzerainty over it. By 
then, García's reign in Zaragoza had closed.

García's heirs[edit]

Sometime after 1130, but before his succession, García married Margaret of L'Aigle. 
She was to bear him a son and successor, Sancho VI, as well as two daughters who 
each married kings. The elder, Blanche, born after 1133, was originally to marry 
Raymond Berengar IV as confirmed by a peace treaty in 1149, in spite of the count's 
existing betrothal to Petronilla of Aragon, but García died before the marriage could 
be carried out. Instead she married Sancho III of Castile. The younger daughter, 
Margaret, married William I of Sicily. García's relationship with his first queen was, 
however, shaky. She supposedly took on many lovers and showed favouritism to her 
French relatives. She bore a second son named Rodrigo, whom her husband refused 
to recognise as his own.[8] On 24 June 1144, in León, García married Urraca, called 
La Asturiana (the Asturian), illegitimate daughter of Alfonso VII, to strengthen his 
relationship with his overlord.

In 1136, García was obliged to surrender Rioja to Castile but, in 1137, he allied with 
Alfonso I of Portugal and confronted Alfonso VII. They confirmed a peace between 
1139 and 1140. He was thereafter an ally of Castile in the Reconquista and was 
instrumental in the conquest of Almería in 1147. In 1146, he occupied Tauste, which 
belonged to Aragon, and Alfonso VII intervened to mediate a peace between the two 
kingdoms.

García died on 21 November 1150 in Lorca, near Estella, and was buried in the 
cathedral of Santa María la Real in Pamplona. He was succeeded by his eldest son. 
He left one daughter by Urraca: Sancha, who married successively Gaston V of Béarn 
and Pedro Manrique de Lara.

García left, as the primary monument of his reign, the monastery of Santa María de la 
Oliva in Carcastillo. It is a fine example of Romanesque architecture.

Parents
SANCHEZ Ramiro II (ABT 1070 - Feb 1116)
RODRIGUEZ DE BIVAR Christina (Elvira) (Ximene) (ABT 1075 - )

Siblings
RAMIREZ Garcia V (Garcias VI) (ABT 1112 - 21 Nov 1150)

Marriage To DE L'AIGLE ROTROU Marguerite (ABT 1100 - 25 May 1141)
    m. 1130 

Notes
his 1st

Parents
DE L'AIGLE Gilbert (ABT 1068 - 1118)
DU PERCHE Julienne (ABT 1070 - AFT 1109)

Children by DE L'AIGLE ROTROU Marguerite ABT 1100 - 25 May 1141
GARCIA Sancho V (VI) "el Sebio" ("the Wise") (Apr 1132 - 27 Jun 1194)
OF NAVARRE Blanche (Blanca) (ABT 1134 - 12 Aug 1156)

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