Talk:List of Navarrese royal consorts

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I have removed some unfounded material from the table:

There is no historical document that names the wife of Iñigo Arista. That her name was Oneca was simply invented centuries later.

Urraca, wife of "King Garcia" appears in one document of questionable authenticity from over a century later. It is speculated that the king was Garcia Iñiguez, simply because no contemporary document names his wife, and no other known king Garcia had a wife Urraca. There is no evidence to suggest "Gimenez" was her patronymic.

Luidegundia is known from contemporary verse to have been Queen of Pamplona, but the work does not name her husband, and five different members of two different dinasties have been guessed, Garcia Iñiguez being just one of the possibilities.

Auria, wife of Fortun, is only known by her given name. A recent work suggested three different alternative parents, the one previously given here being no better supported than the alternatives

Toda was not of Aragon, but granddaughter of king Fortun and also of his brother.

Teresa is only known to history by her given name. She has been speculated to have been daughter of the king of Leon because a son was named Ramiro, a name more common there, but this is far from certain.

Jimena Fernandez and Felicie of Roucy have been given family affiliations.

Philippa of Toulouse never married Sancho Ramirez. Surviving documentation shows him still married to Felicie just months before his death, and contemporary chroniclers make no mention of a divorce.

Agricolae 20:13, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

1 Proof of invention?

2 Is the 'speculation' that she is the wife of said Garcia reliable?

3 Ditto

4 Accepted

5 Accepted

6 Is there reliable historical belief that she is of Leon?

7 Philippa of Toulouse needs more discussion.

Michaelsanders 20:25, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Well . . . .

1 With all due respect, it works the other way. Proof that she ever existed? There is no historical document of which I am aware that names anyone as wife of Inigo or as mother of Garcia, but because genealogy abhors a vacuum, various authors have filled in the blank, and I have probably seen a half-dozen different names given.

2 IIRC, the name is only known from a monastic foundation document from about 1000, that relates that the house was founded by King Garcia and Queen Urraca. First, one has to consider the reliability of this foundation (it was common to forge foundation material to demonstrate priority, notoriety or land title, but it was sometimes done with reliable historical information) and then there is the issue of exactly to whom the document refers: Garcia Jimenez (debatable as "king") married Oneca and Dadildis, Garcia Sanchez married Andregota and Teresa, Garcia the Trembler married Jimena, and the Garcia who was named as "king" in the genealogy of the Banu Qasi but is otherwise undocumented married Auria. That leaves, or so the argument goes, Garcia Iñiguez, but you can't exclude some other Garcia (note that the use of the royal title was somewhat fluid), or outright forgery. Basically, it is simple guesswork build on a foundation of sand.

3 Leodegundia is known only from the verse, preserved in the Codice de Roda. The argument runs: She was sister of Alfonso III, and she was Queen of Navarre. Who was king of Navarre when Alfonso was king of Asturias? Various authors have speculated for her husband, in no particular order: 1) Jimeno, father of Garcia Jimenez; 2) Garcia Jimenez; 3) Garcia Iniguez; 4) Fortun Garces, and 5) Sancho Garces (brother of Fortun), as well as suggesting the possibility that she married some other petty "king" that has escaped notice, such as the aforementioned Garcia, husband of Auria bint Musa ibn Qasi. Various political arguments have been made based on who Alfonso was likely to have married his sister to, but this would change depending on when the marriage took place, which is not known.

6 Her name was Teresa, her son was named Ramiro, and a king of Navarre would have married someone from someplace important. That is the full extent of the evidence in for her being from Leon.

7 See: See http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ifetch2?/u1/textindices/G/GEN-MEDIEVAL+2003+693417354651+F

Note that Felicie appears in a royal document with Sancho, as queen, in January of 1094, and Sancho died in June. I don't know where Weir and Meade got the marriage from, but a lot of myth has built up around William IX, his wives and mistresses over the years, and they appear to have accepted the marriage without much care as to whether it is well founded.

Agricolae 21:52, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Fine about 6. But the others seem to be verging on Original Research. There is are two published authors saying that Philippa married Sancho Ramirez. And, whilst I wouldn't state it as certain, I would assume that there is published work naming Oneca, Urraca and Luidegunda in the roles you have questioned. If you can source your assertions (with something better than an email) with reliable publications, then fine, that's perfectly satisfactory, and you can remove the information. Until then, I'm putting the list back to the previous version; and if the arguments can't be sourced, then it'll stay that way. Hopefully, however, you will be able to adequately source your changes - I'm all in favour of accuracy in articles, and if the information is wrong, then it should be removed. I simply want the burden of proof to be placed upon published historians, rather than we editors. Michaelsanders 22:31, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Philippa: I provided the above post, not _as_ the citation, but because it contained the relevant citations. S de VAJAY, Ramire II le Moine, roi d'Aragon et Agnes de Poitou dans l'histoire et la légende, in Mélanges offerts à René Crozet, 2 vol, Poitiers, 1966, vol 2, p 727-750; and R E Harvey, The wives of the first troubadour Duke William IX of Aquitaine, in Journal of Medieval History, vol 19, 1993, p 315. Harvey states that, contrary to prior assumptions, William was certainly Philippa's only husband. Vajay states that the marriage to an unnamed king of Aragon reported by a non-contemporary chronicler is imaginary, even though it has appeared broadly in modern histories, and likewise he cites J de Salarrullana de Dios, Documentos correspondientes al reinado de Sancho Ramirez, Saragossa, 1907, vol I, nr 51, p 204-207 to document that Felicie was clearly still married to Sancho months before his death, making the marriage to Philippa several years earlier, as reported in the popular biographies you are relying on, completely unsupportable.

Oneca: Thierry Stasser. Consanguinity et Alliances Dynastiques en Espagne au Haut Moyen Age: La Politique Matrimoniale de la Reinne Tota de Navarre. Hidalguia. No. 277: 811-39 (1999) speculates that the wife of Iñigo was probably a member of the family that gave rise to the later counts of Aragon, and was perhaps named Tota. Christian Settipani, La Noblesse du midi carolingien, Occasional Publiucations of the Unit for Prosopographical Research, Vol. 5. shows that the first mention of any wife for Iñigo was in the 13th century, (400 years after the fact), and that the two sources give different names, Tota in one, Oneca in the other. He uses Tota in subsequent charts. José Maria Lacarra. Textos navarros del Códice de Roda. Estudios de Edad Media de la Corona de Aragon. 1:194-283 (1945) discusses the genealogy of these families as well as all relevant documentation, but gives no named wife to Iñigo, which given the thoroughness of the study is of value if only through omission.

Uracca: Lacarra. Textos navarros del Códice de Roda discusses briefly the documentation for Uracca, but draws no conclusion. Antonio Ubieto Arteta. El Matrimonio de la Reina Leodegundia. Medievalia. 10:451-4 (1992), concludes that Uracca married a Garcia from some other part of the kingdom, not Garcia Iñiguez. Ricardo del Arco y Garay, in his chapter on Aragon in the Menendez Pidal Historia de España vol. VI concludes that the document in question was actually refering to king Garcia the Trembler and his mother Uracca of Castile.

Leodegundia: Justo Pérez de Urbel. Jimenos y Velas en Portugal. Revista Portuguesa de História. 5:475-492 (1951), and several of his other works (including his chapter on Navarre in the same Menendez Pidal Historia volume) writes that Leodegundia married Jimeno, father of Garcia Jimenez. Armando Cotarelo Valledor. Historia Critica y Documentada de la Vida y Acciones de Alfonso III el Magno, Ultimo Rey de Asturias. (1933) concludes that she married Sancho Garces, brother of King Fortun. Ubieto Arteta. El Matrimonio de la Reina Leodegundia, concludes it was Garcia Iniguez she married, but cites Valls y Tabernor as concluding it was Fortun Garces, an opinion apparently shared by Barrau-Dihigo, L. (1989) Historia politica del reino Asturiano (718-910) (Gijón) (which I have not seen, but I have seen it stated that he rejected the Garcia Iniguez solution).

These are just a few I had handy for the last three, but they should be sufficient to show that presenting only one out of the range of opinions with regard to these three women does not represent NPOV. As to Philippa, the evidence is clear, and published by historians actually addressing the specific question, rather than telling a story about her granddaughter. I have restored the changes. Agricolae 02:08, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Right then, that's fine. Good work on sourcing that, and I hope you'll address the issues thoroughly in the relevant articles. Michaelsanders 15:14, 28 January 2007 (UTC)