Toda of Navarre

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Toda Aznárez, also Teuda de Larraun or Tota (c.885-aft.970), was the queen-consort of Navarre through her marriage (his second) to Sancho I (905-925). She married him when he was an old man.

She was the daughter of Aznar Sánchez, lord of Larraun, and Oneca Fortúnez, who herself was a daughter of King Fortún Garcés. Thus, Toda's children also descendants of the Arista dynasty of Navarrese monarchs. She was also aunt, through her mother's first marriage to ‘Abdullah ibn Muhammad, of Caliph Abd-ar-Rahman III

Her eldest son was García, who succeeded his father with his uncle Jimeno as regent and co-king (until 931). Toda became co-regent and guardian of her son. She was sole regent from her brother-in-law Jimeno's death to 934. She was an energetic diplomat, arranging political marriages for her daughters among the competing royalty and nobility of Christian Iberia.

The Codex of Roda gives Sancho and Toda six children:

Oneca (d.931), married Alfonso IV the Monk of León in 926
Sancha, married firstly Ordoño II of León, secondly Count Alvaro Herraméliz of Álava, and thirdly Fernán González, Count of Castile
Urraca, married Ramiro II of León
Velasquita (or Belasquita), married firstly Munio, count of Vizcaya, secondly Galindo, son of Bernard count of Ribagorza.
Orbita
García, king of Pamplona, married firstly Andregota Galíndez and secondly Teresa