Ximena Fernández

   Another name for Ximena was Jimena Fernández.

  Noted events in her life were:

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Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, Jimena Fernández was the daughter of Fernando Vermúndez and his wife Elvira Díaz. "Her parentage is suggested by the charter dated 15 Oct 1071 under which her great grandson Alfonso VI King of Castile donated "uilla…Cento Fontes qui fuit de abio meo comes Fredenando Ueremudiz…in ripa de Estola…et monasterio de Cisterna" to "soror mea domina Urracca prolis Fredenandiz" [Vignau Ballester. V. (ed.) (1885) Cartulario del monasterio de Eslonza (Madrid) ("Eslonza"), Part I, V, p. 8]." Jimena married García Sánchez de Navarra, son of Sancho II Gracés Abarca rey de Navarre, conde de Aragón and his wife Urraca de Castilla. García succeeded his father in 994 as García IV Sánchez rey de Navarre y conde de Aragón.

Ximena married García II "el Temblón" Sánchez Rey de Navarra, son of Sancho II "Abarca" García Rey de Pamplona y conde de Aragón and Urraca Fernández de Castilla. (García II "el Temblón" Sánchez Rey de Navarra was born about 964 and died before 8 Dec 999 in the monastery of St. Juan de la Pena, España.)