Sancho Ramírez, King of Aragón and Navarre

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Sancho Ramírez (c. 1042 – 4 June 1094, Huesca) was king of Aragon (1063-1094, as Sancho I) and king of Navarre (1076-1094, as Sancho V). He was the son of Ramiro I of Aragon and Ermesinde of Bigorre, and he succeeded his father in 1063.

Between 1067 and 1068, the War of the Three Sanchos involved him in a conflict with his first cousins, both also named Sancho: Sancho IV the king of Navarre and Sancho II the king of Castile, respectively. The Castilian Sancho was trying to retake Bureba and Alta Rioja, which his father had given away to king of Navarre and failed to retake. The Navarrese Sancho begged the aid of the Aragonese Sancho to defend his kingdom. Sancho of Castile defeated the two cousins and retook both Bureba and Alta Rioja, as well as Álava.

Sancho Ramírez was elected king of Navarre in 1076 after Sancho IV of Navarre was murdered by his own siblings, thus prompting a succession crisis. Sancho's young son, García, was recognized as titular king in León and Castile, where he lived in exile.

Sancho conquered Barbastro in 1065, Graus in 1083, and Monzón in 1089.

He married first in c.1065 (divorced 1071), Isabel of Urgel (d. c.1071), daughter of Count Armengol III of Urgel; second in 1076, Felicie of Roucy (d May 3, 1123), daughter of Count Hilduin III of Roucy; and third in 1086, Philippa of Toulouse, the daughter of Count William IV of Toulouse.

He perished in 1094 at the Siege of Huesca.

His three sons, Peter, Alfonso and Ramiro, succeeded in turn to the throne of Aragon.

Preceded by: Ramiro I	King of Aragon 1063–1094	Succeeded by: Peter I
Preceded by: Sancho IV	King of Navarre 1076–1094