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, paternal grandson of king García Íñiguez of Pamplona, while her mother Oneca Fortúnez was a daughter of king Fortún Garcés. Thus, Toda's children were also descendants of the Arista dynasty of Navarrese monarchs. She was sister of Sancha Aznárez, wife of king Jimeno Garcés, her husband's brother and successor, while Toda and Sancha were also aunts of Caliph Abd-ar-Rahman III, through their mother's first marriage to ‘Abdullah ibn Muhammad.
When her son García Sánchez I succeeded his uncle Jimeno as king in 931, Toda became regent and guardian of her son. However, in 934 her nephew Abd-ar-Rahman III intervened on behalf of his cousin, removing Toda to allow García to rule alone. She had been 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
| Preceded by Auria |
Queen consort of Pamplona 905 – 925 |
Succeeded by Sancha Aznárez |
| Vacant | Regent of Navarre 931 – 934 |
Vacant |
