Sancho V Sánchez (
Basque
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: ''Antso Sancion'',
Gascon: ''Sans Sancion''
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: ''Sanche Sancion''; died circa 961) was briefly
Duke of Gascony
The Duchy of Gascony or Duchy of Vasconia ( eu, Baskoniako dukerria; oc, ducat de Gasconha; french: duché de Gascogne, duché de Vasconie) was a duchy located in present-day southwestern France and northeastern Spain, an area encompassing the m ...
from the death of his father,
Sancho IV, between 950 and 955 to his own death. He was an illegitimate son whose rule did not last long before he died heirless to be succeeded by his brother
William Sancho.
There is some disagreement as to the name of this successor of Sancho IV. Some sources give two sons, an eldest named García and a younger named Sancho, placing the death of the latter before the succession of William and making García their father's heir.
El Ducado de Vasconia.
It is probably just a mixup in names: the son who succeeded Sancho IV was named either García or Sancho.
Notes
Sources
Monlezun, Jean Justin. ''Histoire de la Gascogne''. 1846.
*Collins, Roger. ''The Basques''. Blackwell Publishing: London, 1990.
Dukes of Gascony
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