Garcia Ramirez was Lord of Monzon, and in 1134 became King of Navarre. Events Baalbeck taken by Genghis Khan House of Brandenburg begins when Albrecht the Bear is made head of the Nordmark St. ... This is a list of the kings of Navarre. ...

He was born in 1110's as a grandson of a bastard son of Garcia V of Navarre. His parents were Ramiro sanchez de Monzon (of bastard Navarrese royal ancestry) and Cristina Rodriguez Diaz de Vivar, daughter Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, El Cid Campeador, the recent lord of Valencia. History of Spain Series -Timeline -Prehistoric Spain -Roman Spain -Visigothic Spain -Medieval Spain -Moorish Spain -Age of Reconquest -Age of Expansion -Age of Enlightenment -Reaction and Revolution -First Spanish Republic -The Restoration -Second Spanish Republic -Spanish Civil War -The Dictatorship -Modern Spain Topics -Economic History -Military History -Social History Rodrigo...

When Aragon, which had from 1076 took over in Navarre, lost its warrior king Alfonso I of Aragon and had succession crisis, Garcia managed to wrest Navarre from his equally bastard-line Aragonese cousins in 1134. Events February 14 - Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor. ... Alfonso I of Aragon the Battler (circa 1073-1134, king of Aragon and Navarre 1104-1134). ...

He was obliged to surrender Rioja to Castile in 1136, and Taragona to Aragon in 1157, and to declare himself a vassal of King Alfonso VII of Castile. Alfonso VII of Castile (March 1, 1104/5 - August 21, 1157), nicknamed the Emperor, was the king of Castile and Leon since 1126, son of Urraca of Castile and Count Raymond of Burgundy. ...

Garcia, called as "the Restorer" was utterly incompetent, and at various times was dependent upon the revenues of churches and convents. He was succeeded in 1150 by his more competent son, Sancho VI (the Wise). Sancho VI Garces, (c. ...