García I ( – 914) was the

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from 910 until his death and eldest of three succeeding sons of

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by his wife

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. García took part in the government alongside his father until 909. In that year a conspiracy, in which García was implicated, was uncovered. Alfonso renounced the throne and divided the realm among his three sons. León went to García, Galicia to Ordoño, and

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to Fruela. Asturian primacy was nevertheless recognised. García's reign saw the fortification of the

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and the

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of Roa,

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, and

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. During this period, the

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, Gonzalo Fernández gained influence through these endeavours. At his death in Zamora in 914 he had no heirs and his kingdom passed to Ordoño. García's wife, Muniadona, was said by Pelagius of Oviedo to have been daughter of Nuño Fernández, but this is chronologically impossible. Sánchez Albornoz suggested instead that she was daughter of

Munio Núñez Munio Núñez, Count of Castile (899– and c. 904–c. 909), was a nobleman who was almost certainly the son of Nuño Muñoz, who would have been the son of Munio Núñez de Brañosera who in 824, with his wife Argilo, granted the '' Carta Pue ...

, the ''repoblador'' of Roa and

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.An alternative has recently been suggested by Manuel Carriedo Tejedo making her daughter of Nuño, brother of Alfonso III, and hence her husband's first-cousin, and perhaps identical to the Muniadona who was wife Gonzalo Fernández of Castile and mother of

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. She may have been the same Muniadona later married to count Ferdinand Ansúrez of Castile.

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