Sancho I Garcés (c. 860 – December 11, 925) was
king of Pamplona from 905 to 925. He was a son of
García Jiménez, who was king of "another part of the kingdom" of
Pamplona and
Dadildis de Pallars, his second wife. In 905, a coalition of enemies of the king,
Fortún Garcés:
Lubb ibn Muhammed of the
Banu Qasi, King
Alfonso III of Asturias,
Galindo Aznar II of
Aragon and Sancho's uncle,
Raymond I of Pallars and Ribagorza, deposed the king, and put Sancho on the throne in his place. Throughout his reign, he involved himself in the squabbles among the Muslim lords to the south with repeated success. In 907, he turned on his former ally Lubb ibn Muhammad, killing him in battle. Four years later, another former ally, Galindo Aznar, joined with his brother-in-law
Muhammad al-Tawil and
Abd Allah ibn Lubb ibn Qasi to attack Sancho, but they were defeated and neutralized as a threat. Al-Tawil fled and was killed shortly afterward, and the power of the Banu Qasi was severely crippled, while Galindo was forced into vassalage to Sancho, leading to the incorporation of the
County of Aragon into the Pamplona kingdom. In 920, he teamed with
Bernard I of Ribagorza and
Amrus ibn Muhammed, son of Muhammad al-Tawil, to attack Banu Qasi-held
Monzón. His successes allowed him to join Ultra-Puertos, or Basse-Navarre (Baja Navarra), to his own dominions, and extend his territory as far as
Nájera. As a thanksgiving offering for his victories, he founded, in 924, the...
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