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Birth:          ABT  964 Spain
Death:          BEF 8 Dec  999 
Burial:         Monastery of St. John de la Pena

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garc%C3%ADa_S%C3%A1nchez_II_of_Pamplona
García Sánchez II (Basque: Gartzea II.a Santxez; dead c. 1000), was King of 
Pamplona and Count of Aragon from 994 until his death c. 1000. He was the eldest 
son of Sancho II of Pamplona and Urraca Fernández and the second Pamplonese 
monarch to also hold the title of count of Aragon. Modern historians refer to him as the 
Tremulous, though this appellation likely originally applied to his grandfather, García 
Sánchez I of Pamplona.[1]
Biography[edit]

Throughout his reign, his foreign policy seems to have been closely linked to that of 
Castile. His mother was an aunt of count Sancho García of Castile, and also of the 
powerful count of Saldaña, García Gómez of Carrión, and she appears to have played 
a role in forming a bridge between the kingdom and county.

He joined his cousin Sancho in attempting to break from the submission his father had 
offered to Córdoba, as a result of which he had to face Almanzor. In 996 he was 
forced to seek peace in Córdoba. In 997 during an expedition into the land of 
Calatayud, García killed the governor's brother. Almanzor took revenge by beheading 
50 Christians. At the Battle of Cervera in July 1000, he joined, along with count 
García Gómez of Saldaña, in a coalition headed by count Sancho García of Castile 
that was defeated by Almanzor (that count Sancho led the group is thought to reflect 
García's decline). Tradition names him one of the Christian leaders at the 1002 Battle 
of Calatañazor, which resulted in the death of Almanzor and the consequent crisis in 
the Caliphate of Córdoba, but there is no contemporary record of him after 1000, while 
his cousin Sancho Ramírez of Viguera may have been ruling in Pamplona in 1002. 
García was certainly dead by 1004, when his son Sancho Garcés III first appears as 
king.

Domestically, he granted the rule in Aragon to his brother Gonzalo, under the tutelage 
of his mother Urraca.[2] A tradition reports that he freed all of the Muslim captives 
being held in the kingdom.

Marriage and children[edit]

García Sánchez II was married to Jimena Fernández, daughter of Fernando Bermúdez, 
Count of Cea and a distinguished member of the highest ranks of the nobility of the 
Kingdom of León. They had the following children:[3]
Sancho Garcés III, King of Navarre and Count of Aragon from 1004 until his death in 
1035.
Elvira Garcés, nun in the Monastery of Leyre.
García Garcés
Urraca Garcés, Queen consort of León by her marriage to Alfonso V of León from 1023 
until her death in 1031.

Parents
ABARCA Sancho II (ABT  936 - Dec  994)
FERNANDEZ Urraca ( 935 - AFT 1007)

Siblings
SANCHEZ Garcia IV (ABT  964 - BEF 8 Dec  999)

Marriage To FERNANDEZ Ximena (Jimena) (Chimene) (ABT  960 - )
    m. BEF  980 

Notes

Parents
BERMUDEZ Fernando (ABT  930 -  978)
DIAZ OF SALDANA Elvira (ABT  930 - AFT  975)

Children by FERNANDEZ Ximena (Jimena) (Chimene) ABT  960 - 
GARCIA Sancho III "the Great" (ABT  985 - 18 Oct 1035)
GARCES Urraca (ABT  990 - )

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