García II Sánchez (
Basque: ''Gartzia Antso'',
French: ''Garsie-Sanche le Tors'' or ''le Courbé'',
Gascon: ''Gassia Sans'',
Latin
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: ''Garsia Sancius Corvum''; died 930), called the Bent, was
Duke of Gascony from sometime before 887 to his death.
He was probably a son of
Sancho Sánchez or of
Sancho Mitarra, though older sources give a genealogy with a Spanish origin.
[Higounet, p 44, calls it "phantasmagorical".]
His ancestry is, in the end, unknown. He may have been a cousin of
Arnold, who some sources claim acted as
regent
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during his minority following his father’s death in 864 (if his father was Sánchez). Other sources place Arnold as Sancho’s successor and date his death to that same year. Whatever the case, García was in power by 887.
In that year, he appeared in a charter issued by the grandees of
Aquitaine assembled at
Bourges to decide on a course of action in the twilight of the reign of
Charles the Fat. In 904, he was using the title ''comes et marchio in limitibus oceani'': "count and margrave to the limits of the ocean." García was the first of a line of dukes which ruled Gascony until 1032 and incorporated the
County of Bordeaux into its demesne. García’s daughter Andregoto married one Raymond, who fathered
William the Good, Count of Bordeaux. García divided his domain between his three sons by Amuna:
*
Sancho IV inherited a rump duchy of Gascony with the ducal title
*
William
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inherited the county of
Fézensac (including
Armagnac)
*
Arnold inherited the county of
Astarac
* Andregoto, mother of
William the Good,
Count of Bordeaux
* Garsinda, married
Raymond III Pons,
Count of Toulouse
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the hereditary counts ruled the city of Toulouse and its surrounding county from the late 9th century until 12 ...
* Acibella, married
Galindo II Aznárez,
Count of Aragon
Notes
Sources
*Higounet, Charles. ''Bordeaux pendant le haut moyen age''. Bordeaux, 1963.
930s deaths
Dukes of Gascony
Year of birth unknown
Year of death uncertain
9th-century people from East Francia
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