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Birth:          ABT  805 
Death:           882 

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garc%C3%ADa_%C3%8D%C3%B1iguez_of_Pamplona
García Íñiguez I (Latin: Garsea Enneconis, Basque: Gartzea Eneko; c. 805 – 882), 
also known as García I was the second King of Pamplona from 851-2 until his death. 
He was the son of Íñigo Arista, the first king of Pamplona. Educated in Cordoba, he 
was a successful military leader who led the military campaigns of the kingdom during 
the last years of his father's life.[1][2]
Biography[edit]

Educated in Córdoba, as a guest at the court of the Emir of Córdoba, García was the 
son of Íñigo Arista, the first king of a Basque dynasty ruling in Pamplona up to the late 
9th century.[3] When his father was stricken by paralysis in 842, he became regent of 
the kingdom (or perhaps co-regent with his uncle Fortún Íñiguez). He and his kinsman 
Musa ibn Musa ibn Fortún of the Banu Qasi rebelled against the Cordoban emir in 843. 
This rebellion was put down by Emir Abd ar-Rahman II, who attacked the Kingdom of 
Pamplona, defeating García badly and killing Fortún. At his father's death in 851/2 
(237 A.H.), he succeeded to the crown of Pamplona.

Following the death of Íñigo Arista, the Banu Qasi leader Musa ibn Musa pursued a 
policy of closer allegiance with Muhammad I of Córdoba, leaving García to look to 
Christian Asturias for an ally.[1] In 859, the Vikings captured King Garcia Iñiguez, 
probably far removed from the his Basque kingdom of Navarre,[4] somewhere in the 
Andalusian heartland, and extorted a hefty ransom,[5] rising to around 70,000 gold 
dinars.[6] Later the same year, Musa ibn Musa attacked the Pamplonese city of 
Albelda. García and his new friend Ordoño I of Asturias together dealt Musa a 
crushing blow, killing, it is said, 10,000 of his magnates in the Battle of Albelda. This, 
in turn, provoked a raid by Mohammed I of Córdoba[7] in response and the next year, 
860, saw García's son and heir Fortún captured and imprisoned by Mohammed I of 
Córdoba.[7][6]

He languished in Córdoba for the next 20 years. In 870, García formed an alliance 
with the Muslim rebel Amrus ibn Umar ibn Amrus, who had killed Garcia's nephew 
Musa ibn Galindo of Huesca, and the next year was apparently in a new alliance with 
the sons of Musa ibn Musa, now in rebellion against Córdoba.

García's death has been subject to scholarly dispute, a result of a paucity of records 
from the last years of his reign. The lack of subsequent mention of him after 870 led to 
the suggestion that he died in that year, and as his heir was in the hands of his 
enemies, it was argued that García Jiménez then governed the kingdom as regent. 
García's son, Fortún Garcés, is then made to succeed upon his release in 880. There 
is, however, no evidence for such a regency, and Sanchéz Albornoz has cited 
evidence that García was still living at the time of his son's return.[6] Thus it is likely 
that Balparda was reporting an accurate tradition when he suggested García and ally 
Umar ibn Hafsun fought a battle at Aibar, nor far from present-day Lumbier, against the 
troops of the Emir of Córdoba in 882, García dying there (although the age provided 
him, 84 years, is clearly exaggerated).

Marriage and descendants[edit]

The identity of García's wife or wives is poorly documented, and has been subject to 
much speculation. An undated confirmation of an earlier lost charter refers to King 
García and Queen Urraca Mayor, and this is thought by some to refer to García 
Íñiguez and an otherwise unknown wife, Urraca. Based on her name alone and the 
fact that one of his son's name was Fortún, a common name among the Banu Qasi 
dynasty, it has been argued that Urraca could have been a granddaughter of Musa ibn 
Musa ibn Qasi, the leader of the Banu Qasi clan.[8] Other historians have suggested 
alternative parentage, or suggested the document does not refer to García Íñiguez at 
all but instead to García Sánchez II of Pamplona and his mother Queen Urraca 
Fernández. A second possible wife is infanta Leodegundia, daughter of Ordoño I of 
Asturias. She is known to have married a ruler of Pamplona not named in the primary 
source, and García Íñiguez is one of those speculated to have been this prince.[1]
Fortún Garcés, King of Pamplona from 870 until 905 and married to Auria.
Onneca Garcés, married to Aznar Galíndez II, Count of Aragon.[9]
Sancho Garcés, father of Aznar Sánchez de Larraun — the second husband of his 
cousin Onneca Fortúnez — and probably of Velazquita, who married to Mutarrif ibn 
Musa, of the Banu Qasi.[a]

He may also have been the father of Jimena, who married King Alfonso III of Asturias
[13] between 26 May and 20 December 873, both appearing together for first time in 
874 making a donation to the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela.[14] Her name and 
the status of her husband as the premier monarch in Christian Iberia suggests that she 
could have come from nothing short of the highest levels of Pamplona society, though 
some have instead derived her from the Jimenez dynasty.

Parents
INIGUEZ ARISTA Inigo (ABT  790 - ABT  851)
____ Oneca ()

Siblings
INIGUEZ Garcia I (ABT  805 -  882)

Marriage To ____ Urraca ()
    m.  

Notes


Children by ____ Urraca 
GARCES OF PAMPLONA Sancho (ABT  830 - )
GARCES Fortun (ABT  830 -  922)
GARCES Oneca Inigo (ABT  830 - )
GARCES Jimena (ABT  845 - )

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