Mayor Garcia de Castilla

• Preferred Name: Mayor Garcia de Castilla
  
• Gender: F
  
• FSID: G96V-Z86
  
• Death: 1039 in San Miguel de Pedroso, Belorado, Burgos, Castilla y León, Spain at LATI: N2.3961 LONG: E3.2148
  
• Birth: ABT 980 in Castilla y León, Espagne at LATI: N1.3833 LONG: E4.45
  
• After+she+was+repudiated+by+Ramon+III,+she+became+the+Abbess+of+the+Monastery+of+San+Miguel+de+Pedro: ABT 1028 in San Miguel de Pedroso, Belorado, Burgos, Castilla y León, Spain at LATI: N2.3961 LONG: E3.2148
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
  
  [MAYOR (-after [early 1035]). A charter of Santa Maria de Gerri dated Apr 18 names "Raimundi Suniarii comtis et uxor mea comitissa…Maior"[311].
  
  Her parentage is stated in the end 13th century “Crònica d´Alaó Renovada” which records that, after the death of “Guillelmum Ysarni, quem genuerat Ysarnus prefatus ex concubina”, Ribagorza was inherited by “rex Sancius...jure propinquitatis”, explained because “Major comitissa soror comitis Sancii de Castella” married “comitis Paliarensis Raimundi Suniarii” and remained in Ribagorza after their marriage was ended “consanguinitatis causa”, and because “rex Sancius Pampilonensis” married “filiam predicti comitis Sancii de Castella...Majorem”[312].
  
  However, this appears doubtful. If she was Conde García's daughter, it is surprising that she did not witness the 8 Mar 974 agreement under which her supposed sister Urraca was consecrated to the monastery of Covarrubias. In addition, the considerable age difference between her and her supposed husband (if, as stated in Europäische Stammtafeln[313], his mother's first husband died before 994) seems unlikely.
  
  A more likely possibility is that Mayor was the daughter, not sister, of Sancho Conde de Castilla. After her repudiation, she returned to Castile where she is recorded in 1028 as abbess of the monastery of San Miguel de Pedroso and in early 1035 with Sancho III King of Navarre[314]. m (repudiated [1026/27]) as his first wife, RAIMUNDO [III] de Pallars, son of SUNYER [I] Conde de Paillars & his first wife Ermengarde [de Rouergue] ([995/1000]-after 1047). He succeeded his father in 1010 as Conde de Pallars.]
  
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  === Murdered. ===
  Murdered.

• m. ABT 1008 in Pallars Jussà, Lleida, Catalonia, Spain