Aznar Sancho

  Noted events in his life were:

• Web Reference: Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, Sancho of Gascony.
"Azenario Sancius comes" instructed two priests to restore "la terre de Cazaux" to the abbey of Pessan by charter dated Oct (abt. 833), subscribed by "Dato Donati comite, Garsia vice comite, Galindo Azenarii" [ Brugeles, L. C. (1736) Chroniques ecclésiastiques du diocèse d´Auch, Preuves de la IIe partie, p. 34]. Einhard's Annales record that "Aeblus et Asinarius comites" were sent to Pamplona with riches from Gascony but were captured, "Aeblus" being sent to Córdoba while "Asinarius" was allowed to return home as he was "quasi… consanguineus eorum" [Einhardi Annales 824, MGH SS I, p. 213]. The Annales Bertiniani record that "Azenarius quoque citerioris Wasconiæ comes", who had revolted against King Pepin some years earlier, died "a horrible death" in 836 [Annales Bertiniani II 836, RHGF VI, p. 196]. The editor of the Vita Hludowici Imperatoris records that "Asenarius comes de Iacca" founded "Alsonense monasterium" in 835 and was buried there in 836 [Vita Hludowici Imperatoris 32, MGH SS II, p. 625 footnote 74].