GarcÃa Jiménez of Pamplona
García Jiménez was the progenitor of the House Jiménez, in the succession of the house Iñiguez in Pamplona ( Navarre ) prevailed, and probably even a reigning king in the 9th century.
Progenitor of Jiménez
About García Jiménez, little is known except that he must have lived probably in the middle of the 9th century. It is only from the 10th century written in the Codex de Roda is known in which the genealogical background of the early kings of Navarre is described. Among other things, a brother named Tenneco Scemenonis ascribed to it. If you these with the founder of the House Iñiguez and first king of Pamplona, Íñigo Arista, identified both houses cousin lines would thus represent one and the same family.
The family of Jiménez García described in the Codex de Roda:
King of Pamplona
Due to the insufficient recorded history of the Basques and their rulers in the 9th century and the resulting source location, the historical classification of García Jiménez is difficult. Speculations are made mainly through its identification with a same name King of Pamplona, which is known from three records from the years 828, 858 and 860. In the documents he is called as follows:
- 828: " ego Garsias Semenonis rex pampilonensium ... "
- 858: "sub regimine Garssia Scemenonis brisk de Pampilona ... "
- 860: " regnante brisk Garcia Scemenones in Pampilona ... "
As this king García ( II ) Jiménez was the same time as the ruling kings of the house Iñiguez in connection is unclear. If he was related to them, he had officiated probably as a kind of king or as guardian for the same time as reigning king García ( I) Iñiguez ( 852-882 ), son of Íñigo Arista. But otherwise it had occurred as rival to the Iñiguez and had been able to establish itself as anti-king for a short time in Pamplona against them.
Also in what the king García Jiménez was identical to the one here progenitor of the Jiménez dynasty, can not be determined beyond all doubt. This is suggested that the daughter of the dynasty 's founder was married to the Count Galindo II of Aragon, perhaps as a result of increased political proximity to this Count House. In all three charters of the king was the Count Galindo I of Aragon, grandfather Galindo II, were performed standing as the first witness for him. For a common identity speaks the text of the Codex de Roda, where the described therein García Jiménez, as well as his brother, is called without royal titulary. On the other hand, the author of the Codex had to have had no knowledge of this kingdom, as García not persist against the Iñiguez has to enforce. This was only Sancho I Garcés in the year 905 succeeded in deposing and banishment of the king Fortún Garcés, which may have marked the rule in Pamplona the end point of at least 50 years of power struggle between two families.
In the medieval historiography of the father of King Sancho I Garcés was recognized as the king of 858/860 and thus the ancestor of the Jiménez dynasty. For example, in the Chronica de San Juan de la Peña from the 14th century. In the genealogical treatises of the kings of Aragon, he was also the first of their line ( see picture).