Gonzalo Sánchez (died 997?) was a younger son of King

Sancho II of Pamplona Sancho Garcés II ( Basque: ''Antso II.a Gartzez'', c. 938 – 994), also known as Sancho II, was King of Pamplona and Count of Aragon from 970 until his death in 994. He was the eldest son of García Sánchez I of Pamplona and Andregoto Galínd ...

and Queen

Urraca Fernández Urraca Fernández (died 1007) was queen of León and Navarre as the wife of two kings of León and one king of Navarre between 951 and 994. She acted as regent for her son Gonzalo in the County of Aragon in circa 996-997, and served as co-reg ...

. His elder brother was King García II and he had another brother, Ramiro, and a sister who would marry

Almanzor Abu ʿĀmir Muḥammad ibn ʿAbdullāh ibn Abi ʿĀmir al-Maʿafiri ( ar, أبو عامر محمد بن عبد الله بن أبي عامر المعافري), nicknamed al-Manṣūr ( ar, المنصور, "the Victorious"), which is often Latiniz ...

. In 996–97, he was ruling the

county of Aragon The County of Aragon ( an, Condato d'Aragón) or County of Jaca ( an, Condato de Chaca, link=no) was a small Frankish marcher county in the central Pyrenean valley of the Aragon river, comprising Ansó, Echo, and Canfranc and centered on the smal ...

alongside his mother. In 994, Gonzalo was sent by his father as an envoy to the court of his brother-in-law Almanzor. Only two documents from the years 996 and 997 make mention of Gonzalo's rule in Aragon. Both were issued by King García II and include a clause specifying that at that time "my mother Queen Urraca and my brother Gonzalo ereruling in Aragon." Gonzalo was also present and confirmed the above charters. Nothing else about the rule (or reign) of Gonzalo and Urraca is known, but the historian Gonzalo Martínez Díez supposed him to have been a ''regulus'' (sub-king) ruling Aragon under the ultimate authority of his brother in Pamplona and with the assistance of his experienced mother. This situation would match that which obtained between 947 and 958 when Sancho II ruled Aragon as king under his father, García I, with the help of his guardian, Count Fortún Jiménez. Gonzalo is not recorded after 997, and was certainly dead by the start of the reign of his nephew, Sancho III, in 1004.

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