Family Card - Person Sheet
Family Card - Person Sheet
NameGarcia VI “ the Restorer” , King of Navarre 
Birthabt 1115
Death21 Nov 1150, Lorca, Spain
Misc. Notes
García VI Ramírez (died 21 November 1150, Lorca), called the Restorer (Spanish: el Restaurador), was lord of Monzón, and in 1134 became King of Navarre. He was born in the 1110s, the grandson of García V of Navarre. His parents were Ramiro Sánchez, lord of Monzón, the bastard son of García V, and Cristina Rodríguez Díaz de Vivar, daughter of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, better known as El Cid Campeador, the recent lord of Valencia.
Reign
When Aragón, which had from 1076 been united to Navarre, lost its warrior king Alfonso the Battler and fell into a succession crisis (1134), García managed to wrest Navarre from his likewise illegitimate Aragonese cousins. He was elected in Pamplona by the bishops and nobles of the realm against the will of Alfonso. However, by agreement between him and Ramiro II, the new king of Aragón, he was deemed the "son" and Ramiro the "father" in an attempt to maintain both the independence of each kingdom and the supremacy of the Aragonese one.
García was obliged to surrender Rioja to Castile in 1136, and to declare himself a vassal of Alfonso VII of Castile. His kingdom was separated from Aragón completely when Alfonso entered Zaragoza and rendered the Aragonese his vassals. In 1137, he allied with Alfonso I of Portugal and confronted Alfonso VII. They confirmed a peace between 1139 and 1140.
In 1144, he married Urraca, the daughter of the king of Castile. He was thereafter an ally of Castile in the Reconquista and present at the conquest of Almería in 1147. The marriage also made him a brother-in-law of Raymond Berengar IV, count of Barcelona, with whom he confirmed a peace treaty in 1149. The count was promised to García's daughter Blanca while already engaged to Petronilla of Aragón, but García died before the marriage could be carried out.
García was utterly incompetent and at various times was dependent upon the revenues of churches and convents. He died on 12 November 1150 in Lorca, near Estella, and was succeeded by his more competent son, Sancho VI the Wise.
Family
Sometime after 1130, he married Marguerite de l'Aigle. On 24 June 1144, in León, he married Urraca, illegitimate daughter of Alfonso VII of Castile and Guntroda. His children were:
• Sancho, called "the Wise", king of Navarre, married Sancha (Beatriz), daughter of Alfonso VII of Castile and Berenguela of Barcelona
• Blanca (born after 1133), married Sancho III of Castile
• Margaret, married William I of Sicily
• Sancha
A boy, Rodrigo, later count of Montescaglioso in Southern Italy, was born to queen Marguerite during the marriage, but he was known not to be a son of king Garcia.
He is sometimes numbered García IV because he was the fourth García of his dynasty (the Jiménez).
Reign
When Aragón, which had from 1076 been united to Navarre, lost its warrior king Alfonso the Battler and fell into a succession crisis (1134), García managed to wrest Navarre from his likewise illegitimate Aragonese cousins. He was elected in Pamplona by the bishops and nobles of the realm against the will of Alfonso. However, by agreement between him and Ramiro II, the new king of Aragón, he was deemed the "son" and Ramiro the "father" in an attempt to maintain both the independence of each kingdom and the supremacy of the Aragonese one.
García was obliged to surrender Rioja to Castile in 1136, and to declare himself a vassal of Alfonso VII of Castile. His kingdom was separated from Aragón completely when Alfonso entered Zaragoza and rendered the Aragonese his vassals. In 1137, he allied with Alfonso I of Portugal and confronted Alfonso VII. They confirmed a peace between 1139 and 1140.
In 1144, he married Urraca, the daughter of the king of Castile. He was thereafter an ally of Castile in the Reconquista and present at the conquest of Almería in 1147. The marriage also made him a brother-in-law of Raymond Berengar IV, count of Barcelona, with whom he confirmed a peace treaty in 1149. The count was promised to García's daughter Blanca while already engaged to Petronilla of Aragón, but García died before the marriage could be carried out.
García was utterly incompetent and at various times was dependent upon the revenues of churches and convents. He died on 12 November 1150 in Lorca, near Estella, and was succeeded by his more competent son, Sancho VI the Wise.
Family
Sometime after 1130, he married Marguerite de l'Aigle. On 24 June 1144, in León, he married Urraca, illegitimate daughter of Alfonso VII of Castile and Guntroda. His children were:
• Sancho, called "the Wise", king of Navarre, married Sancha (Beatriz), daughter of Alfonso VII of Castile and Berenguela of Barcelona
• Blanca (born after 1133), married Sancho III of Castile
• Margaret, married William I of Sicily
• Sancha
A boy, Rodrigo, later count of Montescaglioso in Southern Italy, was born to queen Marguerite during the marriage, but he was known not to be a son of king Garcia.
He is sometimes numbered García IV because he was the fourth García of his dynasty (the Jiménez).