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[SUSANNA KEENE.FTW]

Murdered.

The Aragon of 1035 was created at the death of Sancho III
Garces, King of Navarre, Emperor of Spain. Navarre, the
patrimony, was passed to his eldest son Garcia, Castile
(acquired as a county through Sancho's wife) went to Fernando
(the favorite, who through his marriage to the heiress of
Leon/Asturias became king of the biggest chunk), teen age
Gonzalo got the counties of Sorbrabe and Ribagorza (the claim
to which also came to Sancho through Castile), while his
bastard Ramiro was given Aragon, which had it's origins in a
County of Aragon dating to the 9th century which came to
Navarre through the marriage of Sancho's great-grandfather.
Ramiro was to be vassal of Garcia, but in a series of squabbles
in the following
years, he first threw off his brother's overlordship, and the
absorbed Gonzalo's territories (Gonzalo having died under
mysterious circumstances). In the following generation, Sancho
Ramirez was able to take control of the Kingdom of Navarre
following the murder of its king, Sancho IV Garces, (the
western portion of that kingdom falling to the King of Castile,
cousin Sancho Fernandez, hence Menendez Pidal's 'War of the
Three Sanchos'). This was held by two sons of Sancho Ramirez,
but was lost when both died without surviving issue, and a
third brother, Ramiro
II was reluctantly recalled from a monastery. He married, had
a daughter Petronilla, and engaged the infant to the adult
Count of Barcelona, immediately returning to the monastic life.
Petronilla's son Alfonso II inherited both territories. Thus
the Aragon of 1035 was little more than the mountain county of
the 9th century, and it was an
agressive policy of the first several generations which brought
about the kingdom of status.

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