Ramiro Sánchez

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information: ¹⁶⁰
Cristina (or Elvira), daughter of Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, also know as "El Cid" and his wife Ximena, married Ramiro II, grandson of García III, King of Navarre, and they were the parents of García VII, King of Navaree, "el Restaurador." Ramiro was the King of Navarre, disinherited Infante of Navarre, Lord of Urroz and Moncon, and on the first Crusade with count Raymond of Toulouse.

~Weis's Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 113A:23-25

• Web Reference: Ramiro Sânchez, Lord of Monzón from Wikipedia.
Ramiro Sánchez of Monzón was a noble kinsman of the kings of Navarre, and lord of the town of Monzón, Spain. His father was Sancho Garcés, an illegitimate son of king García Sánchez III of Navarre. His mother was Constance, of unknow parentage.

• Web Reference:
Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, Navarre Kings
Ramiro Sánchez

"The Crónica Latina names "infante Ramiro, que fue hijo del infante Sancho de cierta dueña, hijo del rey García" as father of King García [Crónica Latina de los reyes de Castilla, I, 5]. Ramiro is one of the few examples of an individual, not the son of a king, who was described with the title "infante". Señor de Monzón. The testament of "Ramiro Sánchez rey de Navarra, yerno de Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar el Cid" is dated 1110 [RAH, Colección Salazar y Castro, M-18, Falta (no. 48883)].

Ramiro married Cristina Rodríguez de Vivar, daughter of Rodrígo "El Cid" Díaz de Vivar "El Cid," conde de Valencia and Jimena Díaz de Oviedo.¹⁶⁰ (Cristina Rodríguez de Vivar was born about 1075 in Castilla, Iberia.)