Estefanía de Foix

  Noted events in her life were:

• Web Reference: Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, Stephanie Foix.
According to Marca, "les mémoires du convent de Nagara" state that she was "fille du comte de Foix" [Marca (Béarn), p. 709]. Salazar y Acha suggests that Stephanie was a widow when she married King García, and the mother of a daughter Constanza who married her (second) husband´s illegitimate son Sancho [Salazar y Acha, J. ´Reflexiones sobre la posible historicidad de un episodio de la Crónica Najerense´, Principe de Viana, Anejo no. 14, 1992, p. 154]. Firstly, he says that this would explain Stephanie´s presence in Barcelona when she married, which is confirmed by the charter dated 1038 from San Juan de la Peña which names her for the first time with King García and records that he fetched her in Barcelona [Ubieto Arteta, A. (ed.) Cartulario de San Juan de la Peña (Valencia), II, 72, pp. 21-29, cited in Salazar y Acha ´Reflexiones sobre…´, p. 154]. Secondly, it would explain the charter dated 29 Nov 1074 under which her son Sancho IV King of Navarre granted "unas casas en la ciudad de Calahorra" to "germano meo domno Sancio et uxori vestra vel germana mea domna Constanza" [Rodríguez, R. (ed.) Catálogo de Documentos del Monasterio de Santa María de Otero de las Dueñas, 191, p. 60, quoted in Salazar y Acha ´Reflexiones sobre…´, pp. 152 and 153].

Estefanía married García "el de Nájera" Sánchez rey de Navarra, son of Sancho "el Mayor" García Rey de Pamplona y conde de Aragón and Muñia Sánchez Princessa de Castilla. (García "el de Nájera" Sánchez rey de Navarra was born in 1014, died on 1 Sep 1054 in Atapuerca, Iberia and was buried in Santa María de Nâjera.)