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García Ordóñez de Nájera


Preferred Parents:
Father: Ordoño Ordoñez de León, b. in Leon, España   d. 8 de diciembre de 1074 in España
Mother: Enderquina , b. 1017 in Spain   d. in España

Family 1: Dama Concubina,       d. 1110 in Spain
  1. Elvira García, b. 1100 in España    
  2. Fernando García de Hita y Castro, b. 1065 in Castro, Cillorigo de Liébana, Provincia de Cantabria, Cantabria, España     d. aproximadamente 1135
Family 2: Eva Perez de Trava,    b. 1095 in Santarem, Ribatejo, Portugal   
  1. García Garces de Aza, b. 1106 in Burgos, Castilla y León, España     d. 1159
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  1. Title: ANTÔNIO SUÁREZ DE ALARCÓN - RELACIONES GENEALÓGICAS DE LA CASA DE LOS MARQUESES DE TROCIFAL - LIVRO II
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  2. Title: http://bdh-rd.bne.es/viewer.vm?id=0000229714&page=1
    Author: http://bdh-rd.bne.es/viewer.vm?id=0000229714&page=1 Biblioteca alfabética de los apellidos y familias de Españahttp://bdh.bne.es › bdh0000229714 Traduzir esta página Página que muestra los resultados de una búsqueda Título: Biblioteca alfabética de los apellidos y familias de España. Biblioteca alfabética de los apellidos y familias de Españahttps://www.worldcat.org › oclc Traduzir esta página Get this from a library! Biblioteca alfabética de los apellidos y familias de España. [Francisco Zazo y Rosillo; Ramón Zazo y Ortega] Author: Francisco Zazo y Rosillo; Ramón Zazo y ...
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    Note: http://bdh-rd.bne.es/viewer.vm?id=0000229714&page=1 Biblioteca alfabética de los apellidos y familias de Españahttp://bdh.bne.es › bdh0000229714 Traduzir esta página Página que muestra los resultados de una búsqueda Título: Biblioteca alfabética de los apellidos y familias de España. Biblioteca alfabética de los apellidos y familias de Españahttps://www.worldcat.org › oclc Traduzir esta página Get this from a library! Biblioteca alfabética de los apellidos y familias de España. [Francisco Zazo y Rosillo; Ramón Zazo y Ortega] Author: Francisco Zazo y Rosillo; Ramón Zazo y ...
  3. Title: Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
    Publication: Name: https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/CastilNob.htm#GarciaOrdonezdied1108B;
    Note: GARCÍA Ordóñez, son of ORDOÑO Ordóñez & his wife Anderquina --- (-killed in battle Uclés 30 May 1108). Alférez of Alfonso VI King of Castile: “...Sanctio Ordoniz...Garsia Ordoniz armiger regis...” confirmed the charter dated 20 Feb 1074 under which "Maria Gutterriz...cum iermanas meas domna Fronilli et Donellu et domna Tegridia" donated “villa...Petrafitta super ripam fluminis Ceia...in territorio Castro Froila et Siero...fuit...de patre nostro comite Guttier Afonso et matre nostra comitissa domna Goto” to “Uelasco Ueilaz et uxori tue Helisabet vel filii tui Ueila Uelasquiz”[294]. He supported Abd Allah Emir of Granada when he invaded the emirate of Seville, but was defeated by Rodrigo Díaz at Cabra[295]. Señor de Nájera y Grañón. Conde. "Ruderigo Didaz" accepted as his wife "Scemena filia Didago ducis de terra Asturiense" and granted property "in territorio Kastelle…in Cavia" to her, with "comes Petro Assuriz et comes Garsea Ordonniz" as guarantors, by charter dated 19 Jul 1074[296]. "Aldefonsus totus Ispanie rex" donated property to the monastery of San Millán de la Cogolla by charter dated 1077, witnessed by "Garsias comes de Nazara…"[297]. "...Garcia Ordoniz commes..." confirmed the charter dated 8 May 1080 under which King Alfonso VI decreed that no representative of the king could enter Sahagún[298]. “Comite Garcia Ordoniz, uxor eius comitissa domna Urraka, Ermesindis soror eius…” subscribed the charter dated 18 Apr 1081 under which “Ranimirus filius Garsie regis et Stefanie regina” donated property to Santa María de Nájera[299]. A charter dated 6 Dec 1081, under which "Blasko Milian et uxor mea Monoca" sold property, names "… et in Nagera comite Garcia Hordonioz…" in the dating clause directly following the name of the king[300]. The dating clause of a charter dated 1081, under which "Vita Gomiz…" donated property to the monastery of San Lorenzo de Masoa, names "regnante rege Aldefonso in Legione et in Castella, comite Garsia in Naiara…"[301]. “Garsea Ordoniz comite, Roderico frater eius...” subscribed the charter dated 1 May 1082 under which “Didacus...presbiter” donated the monastery “in rigo de Pisorga in villa...Olmos quem abeo de meos abos” to San Pedro de Cardeña[302]. The dating clause of a charter dated 27 Apr 1084, under which “Obeco Flayniz” sold “erreditatem...que abemus de abibus et parentibus nostris in Kampo Tauro villas...Ualle et Quintanella...meas rationes” to “Guter Nebozaniz et uxoris uestra Scemena Obequiz et filiis vestris”, records “...in Nazara Gartia Ordoniz, armiger regis Rodrigo Ordoniz...”[303]. "Senior Didaco Orioliz" donated property to the monastery of San Millán de la Cogolla by charter dated 11 Nov 1084, confirmed by "…comite Garcia Ordonio in Naiera…"[304]. "Domna Iuliana" donated property to the monastery of San Millán de la Cogolla by charter dated 1085, confirmed by "…comite Garsia Ordonio in Naiera…"[305]. “Garseanus comes, Urraka soror illius…” confirmed the charter dated 27 May [1085] by which “Renemirus infans, prolis Garseani principis” donated property to Santa María de Nájera[306]. The dating clause of a charter dated 20 Nov 1085, which records the consecration of the church of San Pedro de Llodio, names "…comite Garcia obtinente Nagera et Calahorra…"[307]. "Comite domno Garsea in Naiara" is named in charters concerning donations to the monastery of Valbanera dated between 1085 and 1101[308]. The dating clause of a charter dated 1089, under which "Eximina Didaz" donated property to the monastery of San Millán de la Cogolla, names "…comite domno Garsea dominator Naiera et Grannione…"[309]. The dating clause of a charter dated 1092, under which "Monnio Sempron et Dominico Ferrero" bought property at Madriz, names "…dompno Garsia dominante in Naiera et Matrice…"[310]. “...Garsea Ordoniz comes...” witnessed the charter dated 1 May 1092 under which Alfonso VI King of Castile confirmed the prohibition of the entry of women into Valvanera[311]. He was a powerful supporter of Alfonso VI King of Castile and participated in numerous campaigns against the Muslims. "Adefonsus…Ispanie imperator" permitted the abbey of Silos to establish outposts near the abbey, with the consent of "uxoris mee Berte regine", by charter dated 20 Jan [1096/98], confirmed by "Garcia Ordoniz…"[312]. A charter dated 1106 records "eodem anno in die sancti Michaelis" that "comes Garsia" baptised "suum filium in Sancti Emiliani ecclesiam", the dating clause naming "…Garsia comite dominante Calagurra et Naiera…"[313]. "…Garcia Ordonici comes…" subscribed the charter dated 14 May 1107 under which "Adefonsus…Toletani imperii rex…cum…uxore mea Helisabet regina" approved the mint of Santiago de Compostela[314]. The Anales Toledanos record that “Infant D. Sancho è al Conde D. Garcia” were killed “cerca de Uclés III Kal Jun” in 1108[315]. m firstly ([1076]) URRACA de Navarra, daughter of GARCÍA V Sánchez King of Navarre & his wife Stephanie de Foix (-after 1 Feb 1095). “Comite Garcia Ordoniz, uxor eius comitissa domna Urraka, Ermesindis soror eius…” subscribed the charter dated 18 Apr 1081 under which “Ranimirus filius Garsie regis et Stefanie regina” donated property to Santa María de Nájera[316]. "Gassea…comes…cum…coniuge Urracha comitissa" donated property to the monastery of San Adrián de las Palmas by charter dated 13 Aug 1084, subscribed by "Senior Eneco Acenariz"[317]. “Garseanus comes, Urraka soror illius…” confirmed the charter dated 27 May [1085] by which “Renemirus infans, prolis Garseani principis” donated property to Santa María de Nájera[318]. The charter dated 1089, in which "domno comite Garsia et nobilissima et nobilior orta nata dompna Urraca comitissa, dominantibus Naiera" are named, hints at an illustrious ancestry[319]. Her parentage is specified clearly in the charter dated 1 Mar 1145 under which her daughter “Domna Maior filia comitis Garsie et comitisse domne Urrache, filie regis Garsie, filii regis Sanctii maioris” donated “una viña en Calahorra” to Santa María Real de Nájera, for the souls of “filiorum meorum”[320]. m secondly (before 1105) as her first husband, EVA, daughter of ---. The primary source which confirms her marriage has not yet been identified. Salazar y Castro states[321] that she was Eva Pérez de Traba, daughter of Pedro Froílaz de Traba & his first wife Urraca Fróilaz. This tradition goes back further, as Argote Molina stated in 1588 that "doña Eva Perez de Trava…hija de el Conde don Pedro de Trava Señor de Trastamara" was the wife of "el Conde don Garcia que murio en la batalla de Ucles"[322]. Barton says that there is no documentary proof to substantiate this claim[323]. Menéndez Pidal de Navascués[324] suggests that she was a countess of French origin, Szabolcs de Vajay and Salazar[325] hypothesising more specifically that she was the daughter of Aimery [II] Vicomte de Rochechouart whose mother was named Eva, and whose name in the form "Almanricus" may have been the origin of the name "Manrique" given to Eva's son by her second marriage. It is all the more improbable that Eva was the daughter of Pedro Froílaz as her son by her first husband married one of Pedro's younger daughters, who would have been his aunt if the relationship was correct. Doña Eva married secondly ([late 1108/1109]) Pedro González de Lara, who later became the lover of Urraca Queen of Castile. Conde García & his first wife had [four] children: 1. [ÁLVARO García (-after 1089). 2. ELVIRA García . 3. FERNANDO García . 4. MAYOR García Conde García & his second wife had one child: 5. GARCÍA García de Aza (1106, before 29 Sep-16 Dec 1160).
  4. Title: Wikipedia - Garcia Ordóñez de Najera
    Author: References Barton, Simon F. The Aristocracy in Twelfth-Century León and Castile. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Bishko, Charles J. "Fernando I and the Origins of the Leonese-Castilian Alliance With Cluny." Studies in Medieval Spanish Frontier History. London: Variorum Reprints, 1980. Originally published in Cuadernos de Historia de España, 47:31–135 (1968), and 48:30–116 (1969). Online Canal Sánchez-Pagín, J. M. "El conde García Ordóñez, rival del Cid Campeador: su familia, sus servicios a Alfonso VI." Anuario de Estudios Medievales, 27:749–73 (1997). Chaytor, Henry J. A History of Aragon and Catalonia. London: Methuan, 1933. Online Reilly, Bernard F. The Kingdom of León-Castilla under Queen Urraca, 1109–1126. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982. Online Reilly, Bernard F. The Kingdom of León-Castilla under King Alfonso VI, 1065–1109. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988. Online Salazar Acha, Jaime de. "El linaje castellano de Castro en el siglo XII: c
    Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garc%C3%ADa_Ordóñez;
    Note: García Ordóñez (died 29 May 1108), called de Nájera or de Cabra and in the epic literature Crispus or el Crespo de Grañón, was a Castilian magnate who ruled the Rioja, with his seat at Nájera, from 1080 until his death. He is famous in literature as the rival of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, El Cid, whose high position at court he took over after El Cid's exile in 1080. He was one of the most important military leaders and territorial governors under Alfonso VI, and was entrusted with military tutorship of the king's heir, Sancho Alfónsez, with whom he died on the field of battle at Uclés. Family and marriages García was the son of a count Ordoño Ordóñez whose identity is disputed. Traditionally he was identified with a supposed son of infante Ordoño Ramírez and his wife infanta Cristina Bermúdez and hence grandson of two kings, Ramiro III and Bermudo II of León. However, that family's geographical base was in León, whereas García's was in Castile. Further, there is debate as to whether the infantes had such a son, his name being absent from the earliest documentation of their family. It has been suggested that instead the Castilian count Ordoño Ordóñez, García's father, was son of count Ordoño Fafílaz of the Banu Gómez clan.[1] García's father can be shown from surviving documents to have served as alférez to Ferdinand I of León and Castile between 19 April 1042 and 1 July 1047. García's mother was named Enderquina, but her origins are unknown.[2] He was also related, somehow, to Álvaro Díaz de Oca. Before 1081 García married the infanta Urraca Garcés, a daughter of García Sánchez III of Navarre and sister of Sancho Garcés IV. The earliest reference to the marriage dates from 18 April that year, when the couple witnessed a donation of her brother Ramiro Garcés. Urraca gave García three children, two daughters (Elvira and Mayor) and a son Fernando, speculated to be identical to Fernando García de Hita, progenitor of the House of Castro.[3] A charter issued by Mayor in 1145 traces her royal ancestry.[2] Sometime after the death of his first wife (after 1095), García married again, this time to a certain Eva, long identified as a daughter of Pedro Fróilaz de Traba, although there is no documentary evidence that he had such a daughter. More probably she was from north of the Pyrenees, perhaps the daughter of Aimery IV, viscount of Rochechouart, one of the French barons who had answered Alfonso VI's international call for aid against the Almoravids following the Battle of Sagrajas (1086),[4] or of Hugh II, Count of Empúries and his wife Sancha de Urgell.[5] Eva had one son by García: García Garcés de Aza, ancestor of the House of Aza, whose christening took place in 1106 according to the cartulary of the monastery of San Millán de la Cogolla. After García's death, Eva remarried to count Pedro González de Lara. García also had an illegitimate son named Fernando Pellica.[2] Early career (1062–74) García's public career began late in the reign of Ferdinand I, when he subscribed a charter of 10 May 1062, now in the cartulary of the monastery of Arlanza. During the reign of Ferdinand's successor in Castile, Sancho II, García was a figure on the rise. He subscribed three of the ten surviving royal charters of Sancho's reign, while his father confirmed five.[6] During this time he was associated with Pancorvo in the northeast of the Bureba, along the Way of Saint James leading from Miranda del Ebro. In 1072 Sancho II was assassinated, and his brother Alfonso VI succeeded him. On 8 December Alfonso granted a charter to the monastery of San Pedro de Cardeña in Castile. Among the confirmants is García Ordóñez, who was thus among the first to reconcile himself to the new king.[7] In 1074 García was appointed the king's alférez by 20 February, a post he continued in down to 24 June at least. Thereafter he disappears from court records until 1080.[8] Outside of royal service (1074–80) There is a false document dated 1075 by which Alfonso VI purportedly made a grant of privileges to Burgos, which lists García as a confirmant.[9] In 1079, García was dispatched to Granada to collect the parias (tribute) owed by that taifa to León–Castile.[10] While there he led an army on behalf of Granada against the taifa of Seville. Among the other leaders on this campaign were two Navarrese magnates, Fortún Sánchez and Lope Sánchez, who had formerly been leading men in Navarre and in Castile under Sancho II.[11] With this expedition Alfonso VI may have been intending to produce discord between the taifa kingdoms, furthering his hegemony in the south of the peninsula.[12] Whatever the case, at the time of the attack, El Cid was leading a Castilian embassy to the court of al-Mutamid, ruler of Seville, and he repulsed the Christian and Grenadine attackers at the Battle of Cabra, in the (probably mistaken) belief that he was defending the king's tributary. García and the other Castilian leaders were taken captive and held for three days before being released.[13] Bernard Reilly has read the circumstances as implying that García was then an exile who had taken refuge in the south of the peninsula. By 1080 the positions of García and his rival El Cid in the eyes of Alfonso had been reversed. By May (or at least by 6 December 1081[2]) Alfonso had placed the territory of La Rioja in his hands, with his chief seat at Nájera.[9] To that same month is dated the last charter recording the presence of El Cid at Alfonso's court. Count of Nájera (1080–1108) Sometime shortly after his return to court, García was raised to the rank of count (Latin: comes), the highest recognised rank in the kingdom before the 13th century and which meant a seat on the royal council, beside the granting of fiefs and other lands. The precise date of his promotion is unclear. The earliest dated reference to his carrying this title is the carta de arras of El Cid, but it is mis-dated to 10/19 July 1074, whereas it must date from between July 1078 and July 1081.[14] The charter, redacted weeks after the last known reference to García as alférez, records Rodrigo González as alférez, although he is only known to have held that post between January 1078 and June 1081. There is a royal charter dated 1077 that refers to "García, count of Nájera" (Garsias comes de Nazara), but he is not known to have received the lordship of Nájera until 1081.[2] The count being referred to is possibly García Jiménez de Oca.[9] Another royal charter dated 8 May 1080 lists nineteen counts, among them García Ordóñez, but the list appears to be anachronistic, as Fernando Díaz, who was not made count until 1091, appears as Fernandus Didaz commes. Finally, there is a dubious royal charter from 3 December 1080 which was confirmed by one "Count García". The earliest secure reference to García as count is from 18 April 1081, also the first reference to his first wife, Urraca.[2] Historian Ramón Menéndez Pidal argued that García was appointed count of Nájera in 1076, a contention not generally accepted today.[2][9] At the same time as his return to court, García thus received a vast fief comprising the erstwhile southern provinces of Navarre, promotion to the highest aristocratic title in the realm, and the hand in marriage of a Navarrese princess, presumably through Alfonso's actions, since the Navarrese royal family had fallen under his protection after the assassination of Sancho IV of Navarre in 1076. Also at this time, García's chief rival, El Cid, was forced into exile, and, by July 1081, García's brother, Rodrigo, had been appointed alférez to the king. It may be that the Lope Íñiguez who by 1081 had been granted all three of the Basque señoríos of Álava, Biscay, and Guipúzcoa was the same person as the Lop Jiménez who co-led the 1079 expedition against Seville. If so, then he is another ally of García Ordóñez who benefited from the latter's rise after his return to Castile.[9] In August 1084 García made a donation to the Benedictine monastery of San Adrián de Palma. By 20 November 1085, according to a document in the cartulary of San Millán, García's lordship was extended south to include Calahorra, an episcopal seat. By 1089 it was also included Grañón and by 1092 Madriz.[2] At this time, corresponding to the alférez-ship of Pedro González de Lara from 1088 to 1091, García was the most prominent magnate in the kingdom and he frequently attended the royal court, confirming eleven charters out of a total of eighteen from these years, the most of any count.[15] At about this time, however, Raymond of Burgundy, a newcomer to the kingdom, was married to the king's eldest daughter, Urraca, and he quickly surpassed García in power, although the latter still confirmed fifteen of twenty-seven royal diplomas of the period 1092–99, more than any other magnate.[16] In 1096, Peter I of Aragon and Navarre besieged Huesca, a city of the taifa of Zaragoza. In the late fall of 1096, the ruler of Zaragoza, al-Musta'in II, received assistance from his nominal overlord, Alfonso VI, in the persons of García Ordóñez de Nájera and Gonzalo Núñez de Lara. Alongside the Zaragozans, the Castilian counts led their personal retinues against the besiegers, but were defeated on 18 November in the Battle of Alcoraz.[17] García also took part in the Battle of Consuegra on 15 August 1097. This campaign had begun as planned harassment of Aragon, perhaps a concerted action with Zaragoza to re-take Huesca, but it was diverted by the arrival of an Almoravid army in the south centre of the peninsula. The result was a Castilian–Leonese defeat.[18] García's participation in court politics appears to have continued to decline after this. Of twenty-three royal charters issued between 1100 and 1107, a year before his death, he confirmed eleven, still a sizable portion, but now less than half.[19] On 1 February 1095 García and Urraca granted a fuero to the town of Fresnillo de las Dueñas.[2] In 1106 García made a donation to San Millán.
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