The Kingdom of Viguera (
Basque
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: ''Viguerako Erresuma'') was a small ephemeral subsidiary kingdom centered on the town of
Viguera
Viguera is a municipality in La Rioja, Spain. It includes the villages Castañares de las Cuevas, El Puente, and Panzares.
History
The earliest documentary evidence is in the Berber historian Ajbar Machmua, who told that Abd ar-Rahman I recover ...
from 970 into the early 11th century. The kingdom was created by King
García Sánchez I of Pamplona for the eldest son of his second marriage,
Ramiro Garcés, who became the first king of Viguera. He was succeeded by two sons who ruled jointly, but on the death of the survivor of the two, sometime between 1005 and 1030, Viguera was reabsorbed into the main Pamplona kingdom.
The kingdom was carved out of the south of the
Kingdom of Pamplona
The Kingdom of Navarre (; , , , ), originally the Kingdom of Pamplona (), was a Basque kingdom that occupied lands on both sides of the western Pyrenees, alongside the Atlantic Ocean between present-day Spain and France.
The medieval state took ...
. Its territory encompassed the valleys of the
Iregua and
Leza rivers in the heartland of the present-day
Rioja. It probably also included
Meltria. It was an artificial creation, lacking ethnic or geographical distinctness. The kings of Viguera were always subject to their superiors ruling in Pamplona. After 1005, the territory ceased to be a separate kingdom and became just another
tenancy
A leasehold estate is an ownership of a temporary right to hold land or property in which a lessee or a tenant holds rights of real property by some form of title from a lessor or landlord. Although a tenant does hold rights to real property, a l ...
of the crown.
In the year 918
Ordoño II of León
Ordoño II (c. 873 – June 924, León) was a king of Galicia from 910, and king of Galicia and León from 914 until his death. He was an energetic ruler who submitted the kingdom of Leon to his control and fought successfully against the Mus ...
and
Sancho I of Pamplona
Sancho Garcés I ( Basque: ''Antso Ia. Gartzez''; c. 860 – 10 December 925), also known as Sancho I, was king of Pamplona from 905 until 925. He was the son of García Jiménez and was the first king of Pamplona of the Jiménez dynasty. Sancho ...
invaded Viguera to clear out the
Banu Qasi dynasty from the land. By 923, the area had been subdued and fortified. From 924 and until the year 972 the land around Viguera was ruled by
Fortún Galíndez, who had the title of Duke of Viguera.
García Sánchez I of Pamplona, left as heir to the Kingdom of Pamplona his first son by his first marriage,
Sancho II. After the insistence of his second wife, Teresa of
León, García I willed Viguera to his first son with her,
Ramiro Garcés. After the death of García I, his son Sancho II, acting as King of Pamplona, recognised his half-brother's rights over Viguera. Ramiro was succeeded in the throne by his son,
Sancho Ramírez
Sancho Ramírez ( 1042 – 4 June 1094) was King of Aragon from 1063 until 1094 and King of Pamplona from 1076 under the name of Sancho V ( eu, Antso V.a Ramirez). He was the eldest son of Ramiro I and Ermesinda of Bigorre. His father was the f ...
in 991. Sancho's brother,
García Ramírez acted as co-king prior to his brother's death in 1002 or shortly thereafter. García left only daughters and simply disappears from the historical record between 1005 and 1030. Later on Viguera appears again as being part of the Kingdom of Pamplona.
List of monarchs
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Ramiro Garcés, from 970 until his death in 981.
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Sancho Ramírez
Sancho Ramírez ( 1042 – 4 June 1094) was King of Aragon from 1063 until 1094 and King of Pamplona from 1076 under the name of Sancho V ( eu, Antso V.a Ramirez). He was the eldest son of Ramiro I and Ermesinda of Bigorre. His father was the f ...
, from 981 until his death c. 1002.
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García Ramírez, around 1002.
Notes
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Basque history
10th century in Navarre
States and territories established in the 970s
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Viguera
Viguera is a municipality in La Rioja, Spain. It includes the villages Castañares de las Cuevas, El Puente, and Panzares.
History
The earliest documentary evidence is in the Berber historian Ajbar Machmua, who told that Abd ar-Rahman I recover ...
Viguera
Viguera is a municipality in La Rioja, Spain. It includes the villages Castañares de las Cuevas, El Puente, and Panzares.
History
The earliest documentary evidence is in the Berber historian Ajbar Machmua, who told that Abd ar-Rahman I recover ...
Viguera
Viguera is a municipality in La Rioja, Spain. It includes the villages Castañares de las Cuevas, El Puente, and Panzares.
History
The earliest documentary evidence is in the Berber historian Ajbar Machmua, who told that Abd ar-Rahman I recover ...
States and territories disestablished in the 1000s
1000s disestablishments in Europe
History of La Rioja (Spain)