Sancho Garcés III, also known as Sancho the Great, was the King of Pamplona from 1004 until his death in 1035. He also ruled the County of Aragon and by marriage the counties of Castile, Álava and Monzón. He later added the counties of Sobrarbe (1015), Ribagorza (1018) and Cea (1030), and would intervene in the Kingdom of León, taking its eponymous capital city in 1034.
The burial stone of Sancho III, bearing his effigy
Sancho, as depicted by Juan Rizi in the 17th century
The Kingdom of Navarre, originally the Kingdom of Pamplona, was a Basque kingdom that occupied lands on both sides of the western Pyrenees, with its northernmost areas originally reaching the Atlantic Ocean, between present-day Spain and France.
Navarre (light green) in 1190
Sigil of King Sancho VII the Strong
Magdalena of Valois, regent of Navarre from 1479 to 1494, and mother of Queen Catherine I of Navarre
Jeanne III