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Sancho Ramírez (before 10431105/November 1110) was an illegitimate son of King
Ramiro I of Aragon Ramiro I (bef. 10078 May 1063) was the first King of Aragon from 1035 until his death. His kingdomship was petit, and unfederated, which was sometimes referred to as a petty kingdom. Although his legacy was a minor kingdom, he would expand th ...
and Amuña, the firstborn and brother of his namesake who would inherit the throne and reign as
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 (). He was the eldest son of Ramiro I and Ermesinda of Bigorre. His father was the first king of Aragon ...
.


Biographical sketch

Even though he could not inherit the throne because his father had legitimate issue, he was named count at an early age and was a prominent member of the '' curia regis'' first appearing in a charter dated 1049, suspected of being false, as a witness to a donation made by his father to the Monastery of San Victorián. In this charter, he confirms as ''Sancius Ranimiri regis filius primogenitus'' (Sancho, the firstborn son of King Ramiro) followed by his brother and namesake, Sancho, who confirms as ''Sancius Ranimiri regis filius prolis Ermmisendis regine'' (Sancho son of King Ramiro and Queen
Ermesinda Ermesinda (c. 720 or c. 730 – ?; alternatively Ormisenda, Ermisenda, Ermesinde, Ermessenda) was queen consort of the Kingdom of Asturias, wife of King Alfonso I of Asturias ("Alfonso the Catholic"), who claimed right to the throne through his m ...
). Sancho was entrusted with the governance of several important and strategic '' tenencias'', including:
Aibar Aibar (or Aybar, ) is a town located in the province of Navarre, in the autonomous community of Navarre, northern Spain. History García Jiménez of Pamplona was killed at Aybar in 882 in a battle against the Emir of Córdoba ( Muhammad ibn Lubb, ...
(10611062);
Sos SOS is a Morse code distress signal (), used internationally, originally established for maritime use. In formal notation SOS is written with an overscore line (), to indicate that the Morse code equivalents for the individual letters of "SOS" a ...
(1062);
Benabarre Benabarre (), in Ribagorçan dialect, Ribagorçan and Aragonese dialect, Aragonese: Benavarri () is a town and municipality in the Aragonese Comarcas of Aragon, comarca of Ribagorza (comarca), Ribagorza, in the province of Huesca, Spain. Benabarr ...
(10631093); Fantova (1063 probably until 1110); Ribagorza (10831093);
Monzón Monzón () is a small city and municipality in the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain. Its population was 17,176 as of 2014. It is located at the confluence of the Cinca and Sosa rivers, in the Cinca Media comarca of the province of Huesca. ...
(February 1090); Arrieso (January 1091), and Javier (September 1091 to December 1097); and, Aibar, again from September 1091 until March 1100. Sancho Ramírez probably participated in the
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as can be inferred from his father's first will executed on 29 July 1059 when the king included him as one of his heirs if he returned from the "land of the
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". In his second will dated 15 March 1061, his father left him Aibar and Javierrelatre "with all its villas". In 1092, when he was already in his fifties, he went on a
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to
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which at that time was occupied by the
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. He was a generous patron of several religious establishments such as a church in Lasieso, San Salvador de Javierrelatre, and
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where he commissioned the construction of a chapel for his burial. In his will dated 1105, he left most of his properties to his son García, although he did not ignore his two daughters, Talesa and Beatriz, who inherited land and other properties with the condition that, upon their deaths, these would be given to his son García or to his legitimate children. Sancho Ramírez died between the date of the last will that he executed, 1105, and 24 November 1110 when his wife makes a donation to the Monastery of San Vicente de Roda for the soul of her parents and her husband Count Sancho, with her son García confirming the charter. As of 1111, García appears governing the estates inherited from his father.


Marriage and issue

He married Beatriz, whose patronymic is not recorded in any medieval document, and appears with her in an 1100 charter from the town of
Uncastillo Uncastillo ( Aragonese: Uncastiello) is a municipality in the province of Zaragoza, Aragon, eastern Spain. At the 2010 census,Instituto Nacional de Estadística (Spain) it had a population of 781. Along with Sos d'o Rei Catolico, Exeya d'os Ca ...
confirming the sale made by their deceased son Pedro to a certain "don Juan". In November 1110, the now-widowed Beatriz made a donation to the Monastery of San Vicente in
Roda de Isábena Roda de Isábena is a village in the Municipalities of Spain, municipality of Isábena, in the region of Ribagorza (comarca), Ribagorza, in the province of Huesca, Spain. It was the capital of the county of Ribagorza and site of a diocese, the ...
of some salt mines that she received from her brother-in-law, King Sancho Ramírez. Four children were born of this marriage: * García Sánchez, Lord of
Aibar Aibar (or Aybar, ) is a town located in the province of Navarre, in the autonomous community of Navarre, northern Spain. History García Jiménez of Pamplona was killed at Aybar in 882 in a battle against the Emir of Córdoba ( Muhammad ibn Lubb, ...
, Atarés and Javierrelatre, married to Teresa Cajal, sister of
Fortún Garcés Cajal Fortún Garcés Cajal (died 1146) was a Kingdom of Navarre, Navarro-Kingdom of Aragon, Aragonese nobleman and statesman, perhaps "the greatest noble of Alfonso the Battler's reign". He was very wealthy in both land and money, and could raise two t ...
. They were the parents of
Pedro de Atarés Pedro de Atarés ( in Borja – 21 February 1151) was a Spanish noble and member of the House of Aragón. He founded the Veruela Abbey, the oldest Cistercian monastery in Aragon. Biography Family Pedro de Atarés was the son of García Sán ...
who was a claimant to the throne of Aragon after the death of
Alfonso the Battler Alfonso I (7 September 1134), called the Battler or the Warrior (), was King of Aragon and Kingdom of Navarre, Navarre from 1104 until his death in 1134. He was the second son of King Sancho Ramírez and successor of his brother Peter I of Arago ...
; * Pedro Sánchez (died before 1100); * Talesa Sánchez, the wife of Gaston IV, Viscount of Bearn; * Beatriz Sánchez.


See also

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Count of Ribagorza The County of Ribagorza or Ribagorça (; ; ) was a medieval county on the southern side of the Pyrenees, including the northeast of modern Aragón and part of the northwest of modern Catalonia, both in Spain. It was originally the independent c ...


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sancho Ramirez, Count of Ribagorza 1040s births 11th-century deaths House of Aragon 11th-century people from the Kingdom of Aragon Illegitimate children of Spanish monarchs Sons of kings