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Urraca Fernández

10th-century queen of León and Navarre

Field	Value
name	Urraca Fernández
image	UrracaFernández.jpg
image_size	200px
caption	Urraca Fernández, from the Codex Vigilanus
succession	Queen consort of Leon
consort	yes
reign	951956
reign1	958950
succession2	Queen Consort of Navarre
reign-type2	Tenure
reign2	22 February 970 - December 994
house	Beni Mamaduna
father	Fernán González
mother	Sancha Sánchez of Pamplona
spouse	Ordoño III of León
Ordoño IV of León
Sancho II of Pamplona
issue	{{plainlist
death_date	1007

| reign-type2 = Tenure Ordoño IV of León Sancho II of Pamplona

Bermudo II of León
García Sánchez II of Pamplona
Ramiro
Gonzalo
Urraca Sanchez}}

Urraca Fernández (died 1007) was queen of León and Navarre as the wife of two kings of León and one king of Navarre between 951 and 994. She acted as regent for her son Gonzalo in the County of Aragon in 996–997, and served as co-regent of the Kingdom of Navarre, along with her daughter-in-law Jimena Fernández and the bishops of Navarre, during the minor regency of her grandson Sancho III 1004–1010.

Life

She was infanta of Castile and daughter of Count Fernán González and queen Sancha Sánchez of Pamplona.

She was first married by her father to Ordoño III of León in 951. By him she had one child:

Bermudo II of León, whose maternity is subject to scholarly debateAlfonso Ceballos-Escalera (p. 159 de su obra Reyes de León: Ordoño III (951–956), Sancho I (956–966), Ordoño IV (958–959), Ramiro III (966–985), Vermudo II (982–999), editorial La Olmeda, Burgos, 2000 )

In 958, after Ordoño's death, she was remarried to Ordoño IV. He died in 960.

Her third and most important marriage was contracted in 962 to Sancho II of Pamplona. Both Sancho and Urraca were grandchildren of Sancho I of Pamplona. With Sancho, she had several children:

García Sánchez II of Pamplona
Ramiro (died 992)
Gonzalo, who ruled the County of Aragon with Urraca as regent
Urraca Sanchez, nicknamed "the Basque", adopted the Arabic name Abda after being given to Almanzor Ruler of Al-Andalus by her father Sancho II of Pamplona. Urraca and Almanzor had a single son, named Abd al-Rahman Sanchuelo that became chief minister of Hisham II, Caliph of Córdoba.

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