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Birth:          ABT  965 
Death:          5 Feb 1017 
Burial:         Monastery of St. Salvador de Ona

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sancho_Garc%C3%ADa_of_Castile
Sancho García (died 1017), called of the Good Laws (in Spanish, el de los Buenos 
Fueros), was the count of Castile and Álava from 995 to his death.
Biography[edit]

Sancho was the son of count García Fernández and his wife Ava of Ribagorza, the 
daughter of Raymond I, Count of Pallars and Ribagorza. Sancho rebelled against his 
father with the support of Al-Mansur of Córdoba. This resulted in the partition of the 
county between father and son, and the county was not reunited until his father's 
death five years later. He renewed the Reconquista by rebelling against Almanzor, 
alongside his brother-in-law/cousin García Gómez and their mutual cousin García 
Sánchez II of Pamplona. Sancho led the coalition that was defeated at the Battle of 
Cervera in July 1000, but in early September successfully turned back the Córdoban 
invasion of his county. Almanzor died in 1002, leaving the Caliphate of Córdoba in 
crisis. Sancho ruled for another 15 years. In 1010, he intervened in Ribagorza, 
bringing about an end to Muslim domination there and leading to the abdication of his 
aunt countess Toda, and the establishment of a partition between Castilian-educated 
William Isarn, illegitimate son of Toda's brother and predecessor count Isarn, and 
Raymond Sunyer of Pallars, husband of Sancho's sister Mayor. Following his death in 
1017, he was succeeded by his own son García.

Count Sancho García was called El de los Fueros (literally, "He of the Rights" or "of 
the Charters"), because of the rights or charters which he granted to the various 
cities.[1]

Family and issue[edit]

Sancho married his cousin Urraca Gómez, sister of count García Gómez and daughter 
of the Beni Gómez clan leader, count Gómez Díaz of Saldaña by Muniadona 
Fernández of Castile, Sancho's aunt. They had:
Muniadona, eldest daughter, married Sancho III of Pamplona, through whom the right 
to the county eventually passed.
Ferdinand, died before 2 March 999
Tigridia, abbess of the Monastery of San Salvador de Oña, which he founded for her 
to direct.
Sancha, married Berenguer Ramon I, Count of Barcelona
García, who succeeded his father

They may also have been parents of:
Urraca, wife of Sancho VI William of Gascony

Parents
FERNANDEZ DE LARA Garcia I (ABT  940 -  995)
DE RIBAGORZA Aba (Ava) (ABT  943 - AFT  995)

Siblings
GARCIA Sancho (ABT  965 - 5 Feb 1017)
GARCIA OF CASTILE Elvira (ABT  978 - 1017)

Marriage To SALVADORES Urraca (ABT  978 - 20 May 1025)
    m.  994 

Notes

Parents
PEREZ Salvador (ABT  961 - )
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Children by SALVADORES Urraca ABT  978 - 20 May 1025
MAYOR Munia ( 995 - AFT 13 Jul 1066)
SANCHEZ DE CASTILE Sancha (ABT 1006 - 26 Jun 1026)

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