Galindo Garcés (died 844) was a Count of
Aragón
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from 833 until his death in 844, the son and successor of
García Galíndez García Galíndez (died 833), called the Bad (''el Malo''), was the Count of Aragon and Conflent from 820.
The son of Galindo Belascotenes, García had married Matrona, daughter of Aznar Galíndez I, Count of Aragon. However, according to traditio ...
(count of Aragón 820–833).
He left no known descendants, and the county returned to the hands of the dynasty his father had displaced, in the person of
Galindo Aznárez I Galindo Aznárez I (died 867) was Count of Aragón from 844 to 867. Biography
Galindo was the son of Aznar Galíndez I (and his wife, a woman of unknown name), who had been Count of Aragón from 809 to 820, when a practical joke played by Galindo ...
, who was previously Count of
Urgell
Urgell (), also known as ''Baix Urgell'' (''baix'' meaning "lower", by contrast with Alt Urgell "Upper Urgell"), is a ''comarca'' (county) in Ponent, Catalonia (Spain), forming only a borderland portion of the region historically known as Urgel ...
(830–833),
Cerdanya
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Cerdanya has a ...
(c. 830 – 833),
Pallars
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The Noguera Pallaresa river is named after this region.
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(833–834), and
Ribagorza (833–834). It has been speculated that nobleman Velasco Garcés, who defected from
Pamplona
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Lying at near above sea level, the city (and the wider Cuenca de Pamplona) is located on the flood pl ...
in 842 to join
Abd ar-Rahman II
Abd ar-Rahman II (; 792–852) was the fourth ''Umayyad'' Emir of Córdoba in al-Andalus from 822 until his death in 852. A vigorous and effective frontier warrior, he was also well known as a patron of the arts.
Abd ar-Rahman was born in Toled ...
, might have been Galindo's brother, and that this may have contributed to the dynasty's replacement following Galindo's death.
, -
844 deaths
Counts of Aragon
Year of birth unknown
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