Galindo Garcés ( Arag. Galindo Garcés ) (died 844 ) - Count of Aragon (833-844), representative of the Velaskotenes dynasty.
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Predecessor | Garcia I Galindez | ||||||
Successor | Galindo I Aznares | ||||||
Birth | |||||||
Death | 844 | ||||||
Rod | Velascotenes | ||||||
Father | Garcia I Galindez | ||||||
Mother | Nunil (?) | ||||||
Spouse | Guldregud | ||||||
Religion | Christianity |
Galindo Garcés was the son of Count Aragon García I the Evil from his second marriage with the daughter of King Pamplona Iñigo Arista . Despite the fact that Garcia I Galindez had a son from his first marriage, Velasco, it was Galindo’s father who transferred the county, probably because his eldest son on the maternal line came from a hostile Garcia family of Galindes . The exact date of Garcia I’s refusal of power is unknown, but in 833 Galindo Garcés is already called the count of Aragon. Some historians believe that, despite the rejection of the title, Garcia Galindez continued to influence county government further.
In the spring of 833, Count Galindo made a trip to the Echo Valley, which was under the rule of the Frankish state , and joined the town of Valle de Echo, which was located here. On November 25, Galindo Garcés founded the convent of San Pedro de Sirez in the lands he had conquered, signing a charter on the transfer of one of the count's villas to the new monastery. The first abbot was Zechariah of Sireza, who introduced the Benedictine rule in the editorial office of St. Hrodegang of Metz in the monastery. Thanks to the patronage of the monastery of San Pedro de Sires by the count's family, he soon became the main church center of the Aragon county [1] .
Almost nothing is known about the further reign of Galindo Garcés. The Spanish-Muslim historical chronicles report that in 843, the Count of Aragon assisted his ally, the king of Pamplona Iñigo Ariste, in the war with the Cordoba emirate . However, in the battle of Pamplona, the combined Navarro-Aragonese army suffered a crushing defeat against Muhammad , the son of Emir Abd ar-Rahman II . Many Christians were killed in the battle, Inigo Arista and his son Garcia were injured and fled from the battlefield, after which the elder brother of the Count of Aragon, Velasco Garces, together with several notable Pamplons, moved into the service of the emir of Cordoba. Whether the Galindo Garcés participated in this battle is not mentioned by the chronicles [2] .
The reign of Count Galindo Garcés ended in 844. Different historical sources tell about this event in different ways. Some of them report that Count Galindo died from natural causes, and since he did not have children from his marriage to Guldregud, the Count of Pallars and Ribagorsa Galindo I Asnares , the son of the former Count of Aragon Hasnar, became the new earl without any resistance from the Aragonese I Galindez . According to other sources, Galindo I Asnares seized the county with the help of troops provided by the Franks, and executed the father of Count Galindo Garces, Garcia the Evil, as revenge for the murder of his brother Sentulé. The historical chronicles do not give a definite answer about whether Count Galindo was still alive at that time.
Notes
- Proce El proceso de centralizacoón de los monasterios aragoneses entre los siglos IX y XI
- ↑ Morales de Setién y García J. Historia de La Rioja. Edad Media // La Dominación musulmana en La Rioja (711-1031). - Logroño: Edita Caja Rioja, 1983. - T. II.
Literature
- Sénac P., Toubert P. La frontier et les hommes, VIIIe — XIIe siécle . - Maisonneuve & Larose, 2003. - p. 274-278. - 598 p. - ISBN 978-2706814211 .