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Monday, July 26, 2004

Garc�a I (or Ii) Sanchez

King of Pamplona (Navarre) from 925 to 970, son of Sancho I Garc�s and Queen Toda Aznar. He owed his throne to the support of his cousin 'Abd ar-Rahman III, the Umayyad caliph of Cordoba. The end of his reign was taken up with wars against the count of Castile, Fern�n Gonz�lez. Sancho I of Leon, deposed by the Castilian, took refuge in Navarre; Garc�a took to the field and in 960 managed to capture