Gonzalo of Sobrarbe and Ribagorza

Gonzalo († June 26, 1045 at Monclús ) was from 1035 to 1045 King of a short-lived kingdom which included the regions Ribagorza and Sobrabe. He was one of four sons of King Sancho III. of Navarre and the third from his marriage to Munia Mayor of Castile; his brothers were García III. of Navarre († 1054 ) and Ferdinand I of León - Castile († 1065 ), and the half- brother, Ramiro I of Aragon († 1063 ).

Sancho III. had the reigning house Jiménez for hegemony among the Christian kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula built during his energetic rule the Basque Navarre and with him, especially as he was able to take over the west adjacent to Navarre Castile and secure the Leonese king crown for his dynasty followed. But to the east in the Pyrenees into space, he had his empire can expand Sobrabe by the annexation of the county Ribagorza and associated with their landscape. Both landscapes had originally belonged to the Great founded by Karl Spanish March of the Frankish Empire, however, were already closely bound by ties of their dynastic Graf house to the Navarrese royal family. The extinction of the ancient county house in 1017 had Sancho III. offered the opportunity to incorporate them into his kingdom.

Before his death in 1035 had Sancho III. his kingdom divided among his four sons. The oldest García III. the ancestral homeland of Navarre had received during the recent Ferdinand I inherited the Castilian and the vesting took over the Leonese crown. The illegitimate Ramiro I had the relatively small Aragón received, which had also once been a county of the Spanish Mark and annexed at an earlier time of Navarre, had just as Gonzalo obtained with Ribagorza and Sobrabe the smallest share of the paternal inheritance. However, he had it like all his brothers get awarded the royal dignity with which he is called on August 22, 1036 for the first time in a document issued in the San Juan de la Peña Monastery certificate ( rex Gundesalbus in Ripagorza ). Little is known about his reign in his small kingdom, only eight mitsignierte by him deeds are known, in which he merely as a witness for the acts of his brothers Ramiro I. and García III. occurs, which does not speak for self rule. Even in contemporary chronicles he is not mentioned. His assassination on June 26, 1045 by one of his henchmen, who had brought him down from a bridge at Monclús in the Ésera is described only in two late chronicles from the 13th and 14th centuries. He was buried in San Victorián monastery at El Pueyo de Araguás. The small kingdom Sobrabe - Ribagorza was united by Ramiro I of Aragon with.