Sancho Ramírez, Count of Ribagorza

Sancho Ramírez
Count of Ribagorza

Castle in Sos, governed by Sancho Ramírez
Spouse(s) Beatriz

Issue

Noble family Jiménez dynasty
Father King Ramiro I of Aragon
Mother Amuña
Born c. 1043
Died 1105-1110
Buried Jaca Cathedral

Sancho Ramírez (before 1043 – between 1105 and 1110) was an illegitimate son of King Ramiro I of Aragon and Amuña, the firsborn and brother of his namesake who would inherit the throne and reign as Sancho Ramírez.[1][lower-alpha 1]

Biographical sketch

Even though he could not inherit the throne because his father had legitimate issue, he was named count at an early age and was a prominent member of the Curia regis first appearing in medieval charters in 1049 when he confirmed a donation made by his father. Sancho was entrusted with the governance of several important and strategic tenencias, including: Aibar (1061–1062); Sos (1062); Benabarre (1063–1093); Fantova (1063 until probably until 1110); Ribagorza (1083–1093); Monzón (February 1090); Arrieso (January 1091), and Javier (September 1091 to December 1097); and, Aibar, again from September 1091 until March 1100.[3]

Sancho Ramírez probably participated in the Reconquista as can be deduced from his father's first will granted on 29 July 1059 when the king included him as one of his heirs if he returned from the "land of the Moors". In his second will dated 15 March 1061, his father left him Aibar and Javierrelatre "with all its villas".[1][4] In 1092, when he was already in his fifties, he went on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem which at that time was occupied by the Seljuq dynasty.[5] He was a generous patron of several religious establishments such as a church in Lasieso, San Salvador de Javierrelatre, and Jaca Cathedral where he ordered the construction of a chapel for his burial.[6]

In his will dated 1105, he left most of his properties to his son García, although he did not ignore his two daughters, Talesa and Beatriz, who inherited land and other properties with the condition that, upon their deaths, these would be given to his son García or to his legitimate children.[6] Sancho Ramírez died between that year, 1105, and 1110 when his son appears governing the estates inherited from his father.[6]

Marriage and issue

He married Beatriz, whose patronymic is not recorded in any medieval document, with whom he appears in a charter from the town of Uncastillo confirming the sale made by their deceased son Pedro to a certain "don Juan".[7] In November 1110, Beatriz, already widowed, made a donation to the Monastery of San Vicente in Roda de Isábena of some salt mines that she received from her brother-in-law, King Sancho Ramírez.[lower-alpha 2] Four children were born of this marriage:

Notes

  1. ↑ He confirmed a donation in 1067 to the Monastery of San Andrés de Fanlo as Ego Sancio Ranimiri, Ranimirus regis filio et domna Amunna (I, Sancho Ramírez, son of King Ramiro and doña Amuña).[2]
  2. ↑ Ego Beatrix Deo gratia comittissa, pro anima patris mei et matris mea et senioris mei domni Sancii comitis (I Beatriz, countess by the grace of God, for the soul of my father, my mother, and my lord Sancho, count), a donation that was confirmed by her son García.[8]

References

  1. 1 2 Lapeña Paul 2004, p. 46.
  2. ↑ Canellas López 1963, p. 267, doc. 47.
  3. ↑ Lapeña Paul 2004, pp. 46-47.
  4. ↑ Viruete Erdozáin 2013, pp. 503–508, doc. 134 and pp.528–532, doc. 146.
  5. ↑ Lapeña Paul 2004, p. 47.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Lapeña Paul 2004, p. 48.
  7. ↑ Martín Duque 1962, p. 665, doc. 2.
  8. ↑ Grau Quiroga 2010, pp. 404-405, doc. 153.

Bibliography

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