Since Sancho was not a popular king, the order was not hard to enforce ; he was exiled to Castile and Afonso III became king in 1248 after his brother's death.

The step-son of the deceased king, Alfonso VII of León, as reigning monarch and legitimate descendant of Sancho III of Navarre, put himself forward but garnered no local support.

King Sancho III of Navarre conquered Leon in 1034 and began using it.

* 1212 – Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa: after Pope Innocent III calls European knights to a crusade, forces of Kings Alfonso VIII of Castile, Sancho VII of Navarre, Peter II of Aragon and Afonso II of Portugal defeat those of the Berber Muslim leader Almohad, thus marking a significant turning point in the Reconquista and in the medieval history of Spain.

Innocent IV was responsible for the eventual deposition of King Sancho II of Portugal at the request of his brother Afonso ( later King Afonso III of Portugal ).

Although relatively weak up until the early 11th century under the Sancho III ( 1004 – 1035 ), Navarre took up a more active Christian role after the accession to the throne of the Jimenez lineage ( 905 ).

Early in 1197, at the request of Sancho I, King of Portugal, Pope Celestine III declared a Crusade against Alfonso IX, and released his subjects from their responsibilities to the king, declaring " the men of his realm shall be absolved from their fidelity and his dominion by authority of the apostolic see.

* Sancho III, king of Navarre

* Sancho III of Navarre

* Sancho III of Navarre becomes King of Aragon and Navarre.

* Sancho III becomes king of Navarre, Aragon and Castille.

* King Sancho III of Navarre conquers Castile.

* August 21 – Sancho III and Ferdinand II, the sons of King Alfonso VII of Castile, divide his kingdom between them upon his death.

* August 30 – King Sancho III of Castile ( b. 1134 )

* October 18 – Sancho III of Navarre

* King Sancho III of Castile ( d. 1158 )

* Afonso III succeeds Sancho II as King of Portugal.

Sancho III of Castile and Ferdinand, from a Privilegium Imperatoris of Alfonso VII of León and Castile.

He spent most of his first year as king in a dispute with his powerful nobles and an invasion by his brother Sancho III.

That kingdom reached its zenith during the reign of Sancho III of Navarre and covered the area of the present-day Navarre, Basque country, and La Rioja, together with parts of modern Cantabria, Castile and León, and Aragon.

After Sancho III died, the Kingdom of Navarre was divided between his sons and never fully recovered its importance.

# Sancho III of Castile ( 1134 – 1158 )

Apparently born before 1007, he was the illegitimate son of Sancho III of Navarre by his mistress Sancha de Aybar.

Together the couple had five children: Sancho Ramírez, his successor ; García, Bishop of Jaca ; Sancha, married Armengol III of Urgel ; Urraca, nun in Santa Cruz de la Serós ; and Theresa, married William Bertrand of Provence.

Sancho contracted his first marriage in, to Isabella ( died ), daughter of Count Armengol III of Urgel.

For example, Al-Mansur Ibn Abi Aamir, whose rule is considered to have marked the peak of power for Moorish Al-Andalus Iberia, married Abda, daughter of Sancho Garcés II of Navarra, who bore him a son, named Abd al-Rahman, and commonly known in pejorative sense as Sanchuelo ( Little Sancho, in Arabic: Shanjoul ).

Teruel was founded in 1176 by Sancho Sánchez Muñoz and Blasco Garcés Marcilla.

With the support of king Jimeno Garcés of Pamplona, they drove Alfonso Fróilaz to the eastern marches of Asturias, and divided the kingdom among themselves with Alfonso Ordóñez receiving the crown of León and his elder brother Sancho being acclaimed king in Galicia.

Alfonso had married Oneca Sánchez of Pamplona, niece of his ally Jimeno Garcés and daughter of Sancho I of Pamplona by Toda of Navarre.

This gap has led to speculation as to whether there was an interregnum, while one document shows Sancho Ramírez of Viguera reigning in Pamplona in 1002, perhaps ruling as had Jimeno Garcés during the youth of García Sánchez I three generations earlier.

He married Abda, daughter of Sancho Garcés king of Navarra, who bore him a son by the name of Abd al-Rahman.

In 905, the dynasty founded by Íñigo Arista was overthrown through the machinations of neighboring princes, and Sancho I Garcés ( 905 – 25 ), nephew of the Count of Ribagorza, was placed in the throne.

Buried in the portal of Saint Stephen, he reigns with Christ in Heaven ( King Sancho Garcés died in the era 964 ( marginal note )).

The aforementioned Chronica naierensis contains an account generally, though not universally, regarded as a legend: that Sancho Garcés, an illegitimate son of García Sánchez III of Navarre, eloped with the daughter of García's wife, Stephanie ( probably by an earlier marriage ), who was the fiancée of the Castilian infante Sancho, and that he sought refuge at the court first of Zaragoza, then later of Aragon.

By his second wife, Sancha Garcés of Pamplona, daughter of García Jiménez and sister of Sancho I, he had Velasquita and Andregota Galíndez, who married García Sanchez, king of Pamplona ( 925 – 970 ).

In 905, a coalition of the King of Asturias, the counts of Aragon and Pallars, and, it is sometimes claimed, Lubb ibn Muhammad, engineered a coup in Navarre that brought Sancho Garcés to the throne in place of Fortún Garcés.

Sancho VI Garcés ( 21 April 1132 – 27 June 1194 ), called the Wise ( el Sabio ), was the king of Navarre from 1150 until his death in 1194.

Sancho II Garcés Abarca ( after 935 – December 994 ) was King of Pamplona from 970 until his death.

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* Duke Sancho IV Garcés of Gascony ( d. 950x955 )

* Blanca Garcés of Navarre ( died 1156 ), wife of King Sancho III of Castile

In 905, an alliance of the Banu Qasi under Lubb ibn Mohammed, King Alfonso III of Asturias, and count Raymond I of Pallars brought about a successful coup in favor of the latter's nephew, Sancho Garcés, son of García Jiménez of " another part of the kingdom ", forcing Fortún to retire as a monk to Leyre.

* Onneca Fortúnez, who married firstly Abdallah ibn Mohammed, Emir of Córdoba, and secondly her cousin Aznar Sánchez of Larraun, grandson of king García Íñiguez, becoming the mother of the future queens Toda Aznárez, wife of Sancho Garcés, and Sancha Aznárez, wife of king Jimeno Garcés, as well as grandmother of caliph Abd-ar-Rahman III.