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EARLY KINGS OF

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 570 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EARLY See also:KINGS OF See also:NAVARRE The early See also:history of Navarre has been overlaid with See also:fable, and with pure falsification, largely the See also:work of the See also:Benedictines of See also:San Juan de la Pena near See also:Huesca. Their See also:object was to prove the See also:foundation of their See also:house by a See also:king of Navarre, See also:Aragon and Sobrarbe, in the 9th See also:century. They were helped by the patriotism of the Aragonese, who wished to give their See also:kingdom an antiquity equal to that of See also:Leon. Hence much pure invention, bolstered up by See also:forgery of charters, falsification of genuine ones, and construction of imaginary pedigrees. Made himself See also:independent king at See also:Pamplona. He fought with the Carolingian See also:counts of the See also:marches, and in See also:alliance with the See also:Spanish See also:Mahommedan Beni Casi of See also:Saragossa. Very obscure. The most undoubted See also:personality of the See also:time is Tota (Theuda), widow of Sancho Abarca, who governed for her son and whose daughters were married to the kings of Leon and counts of See also:Castile. Son of " The Trembler." He married a daughter of Sancho See also:Garcia, See also:count of Castile. On the See also:murder of Garcia, the last count, he took Castile by right of his wife. He inherited, or acquired, superiority over the central Pyrenean regions of Aragon and Sobrarbe. He divided his various dominions—Navarre to Garcia, Castile to Fernando, Sobrarbe to Gonzalo, and Aragon to Ramiro See also:Sanchez, a natural son.

Killed in See also:

battle with his See also:brother Fernando of Castile and Leon at Atapuerca. Son. Murdered by his natural brother Ramon at Penalen. The Navarrese then. See also:chose Sancho Ramirez of Aragon as king. The kingdoms remained See also:united till 1134. Historic kingdom of Aragon Natural son of Sancho el See also:Mayor of Navarre, who on the See also:death of his legitimate brother Gonzalo, annexed Sobrarbe. The kingdom of Sobrarbe lasted only during the See also:life of Gonzalo. Son of Ramiro. Was killed while besieging Huesca. Son of Sancho. Second son of Sancho. He took Saragossa from the See also:Moors, and was married to Urraca, See also:queen of Castile and Leon.

Third son of Sancho. A See also:

monk, who was exclaustrated alter the death of See also:Alphonso, but re-turned to the See also:cloister on the See also:birth of his daughter Petronilla. Married to Ramon Berenguer, count of See also:Barcelona, who be-came king by right of his wife.

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