Restoration of García Ramírez of Navarre

Name: Restoration of García Ramírez of Navarre
Start: 1134
End: 1140

Type Event Region Europe Time 1134–1140

After Aragon's Alfonso I the Battler died childless in 1134, Navarrese nobles enthroned García Ramírez, ending nearly twenty years of Aragonese annex…

Timeline

1134Fraga · AragonAragonese King Alfonso I died in the Battle of Fraga while besieging a Muslim stronghold, leaving no legitimate sons. In life he had merged Aragon and Navarre into one realm, and news of his death gave Navarrese nobles a window to restore independence.
1134–1135Pamplona · PamplonaNavarrese nobles enthroned García Ramírez, a descendant of the House of Sancho Garcés, and crowned him at Pamplona; he is known to history as "the Restorer." He claimed to restore Navarre's status as an independent kingdom and refused to recognize the overlordship of Aragon's new king, Ramiro II.
1135–1140Navarre · NavarreIn the mid-to-late 1130s García Ramírez consolidated Navarre's independent position, maintaining cautious relations with Castile–León and resisting the imperial overlordship of Alfonso VII. He promoted church reform and strengthened royal authority, making restored Navarre once again an independent pole in peninsula politics.

Sources

A History of Medieval Spain — Joseph F. O'Callaghan (1975)
The Kingdom of Navarre in the High Middle Ages — Roger Collins (2004)