Garcia VI "el Restaurador" Ramírez Rey de Navarre

  Noted events in his life were:

• Web Reference: García Ramírez from Wikipedia.
García VI was born in the early twelfth century. His father, Ramiro Sánchez of Monzón, was son of Sancho Garcés, illegitimate son of García Sánchez III of Navarre and half-brother of Sancho IV. His mother Cristina was a daughter of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, better known as El Cid.

Sometime after 1130, but before his succession, García married Margaret of L'Aigle. She was to bear him a son and successor, Sancho VI, as well as two daughters who each married kings. The elder, Blanche, born after 1133, was originally to marry Raymond Berengar IV as confirmed by a peace treaty in 1149, in spite of the count's existing betrothal to Petronilla of Aragon, but García died before the marriage could be carried out. Instead she married Sancho III of Castile. The younger daughter, Margaret, married William I of Sicily. García's relationship with his first queen was, however, shaky. She supposedly took on many lovers and showed favouritism to her French relatives

• Background Information: ¹⁶⁰
Garcia, King of Navarre, "el Restaurador," son of Cristina Díaz and Ramiro II, married Marguerite, daughter of Gilbert, Seigneur de l'Aigle in Normandy, listed as a tenant in England in the Domesday Book of 1086, and is wife Juliana de Perche, daughter of Geoggrey II, Count de Perche and Mortagne, who fought at Hestings 14 Oct 1066 and his wife Beatrix de Montdidier. Juliana and her husbnd Garcia VIII were the parents of Blanche (or Sancha) of Navarre who married Sancho III, King of Castile.

~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 113:24-26

• Web Reference:
Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, Navarre Kings
García Ramírez de Navarra

'The Corónicas" Navarras name "al rey don García de Navarra, que dixieron Garçía Remíriz" as the son of "l'ifant don Romiro" and his wife [Corónicas" Navarras 2.24, p. 46]. The Crónica Latina names "el rey de Navarra [García] Ramírez, hijo del infante Ramiro, que fue hijo del infante Sancho de cierta dueña, hijo del rey García" and adds that it was said that he was the vassal of king of Castile alter he suceded to the throne [Crónica Latina de los reyes de Castilla, I, 5].

Garcia married Marguerite de l'Aigle, daughter of Gilbert II Seigneur de l'Aigle and Juliana de Perche.¹⁶⁰ (Marguerite de l'Aigle was born about 1104 in l'Aigle, Normandy and died on 25 May 1141 ¹⁶⁰.)