page_title: Sancho III of Pamplona
hierarchical_section_title: Sancho III of Pamplona
caption_attribution_description: English: Burial laude of Sancho III "El Mayor" of Navarre. Museum of León. Español: Lauda sepulcral de Sancho III “El Mayor” de Navarra. Museo de León.
context_page_description: 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, Ribagorza and Cea, and would intervene in the Kingdom of León, taking its eponymous capital city in 1034.
  He was the eldest son of García Sánchez II and his wife Jimena Fernández.
context_section_description: Sancho Garcés III (c. 992-996 – 18 October 1035), also known as Sancho the Great (Spanish: Sancho el Mayor, Basque: Antso Gartzez Nagusia), 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.
  He was the eldest son of García Sánchez II and his wife Jimena Fernández.
caption: The burial stone of Sancho III, bearing his effigy
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