Jimeno I of Pamplona
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Jimeno I (d. (it is said) 860) is known directly only from a single historical record. In 850, the French court received envoys from Íñigo Arista and Jimeno, "dukes of the Navarrese". This is thought to conform with the Códice de Roda, which lists apparent son García Jiménez as ruler of "another part of the kingdom" of Pamplona, and has been used to suggested that Jimeno too held a role of regional co-king or sub-king. The location of this principality has been suggested to have been around Álava, where a count Vela Jiménez, traditionally thought to have been his son, held sway.
He has sometimes been described as Jimeno the Strong, but this results from confusion with a much earlier man of that name. Likewise he sometimes appears as Jimeno Garcés due to hypotheses about his origins. The belief that he was kinsman of Íñigo I Arista has led to various reconstructed pedigrees, filling the gaps with otherwise unknown or chronologically misplaced individuals, the most common version making him son of a García Jiménez, and thereby making Garcés Jimeno's patronymic.
He was apparently succeeded in his principality by son García Jiménez. In the 10th century, Jimeno's house—the Jiménez—completely displaced the line of Arista and reigned in Navarre until 1234.
No record of his wife remains, although historian Justo Pérez de Urbel has suggested he was the unnamed prince of Pamplona to whom princess Leodegundia Ordoñez of León married. The following children have been suggested for Jimeno:
- García Jiménez, who apparently succeeded him as co-king and was regent during the captivity of Fortún Garcés
- Íñigo Jiménez, named as brother of García Jiménez in the Códice de Roda.
- Vela Jiménez, founder of the Vela clan, the connection is not directly attested, but based primarily in his patronymic, geography and chronology.
- Oneca, wife of Galician count Diego Fernandez, having children Jimeno and Leodegundia, this identification is linked to the hypothesis that Leodegundia Ordoñez was wife of Jimeno I.
| Preceded by unknown |
Co- or Sub-king in Pamplona | Succeeded by García Jiménez |
[edit] Bibliographic references
- Justo Pérez de Urbel. "Jimenos y Velas en Portugal". Revista Portuguesa de História. 5:475-492 (1951).
- Justo Pérez de Urbel, "Lo viejo y lo nuevo sobre el origin del Reino de Pamplona". Al-Andalus, XIX (1954).
- José Maria Lacarra, "Textos navarros del Códice de Roda". Estudios de Edad Media de la Corona de Aragon. 1:194-283 (1945).
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