García Ordóñez
García Ordóñez (died 29 May 1108), called de Nájera or de Cabra and in the epic literature Crispus or el Crespo de Grañón, was a Castilian magnate who ruled the Rioja, with his seat at Nájera, from 1080 until his death.
He is famous in literature as the rival of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, the Cid, whose high position at court he took over after the Cid's exile in 1080.
He was one of the most important military leaders and territorial governors under Alfonso VI, and was entrusted with military tutorship of the king's heir, Sancho Alfónsez, with whom he died on the field of battle at Uclés.
Gonzalo de Marañón
Gonzalo de Marañón(" floruit" 1141– 1178) was a Castilian magnate during the reigns of Alfonso VII( 1126 – 57), Sancho III( 1157 – 58), and Alfonso VIII( 1158 – 1214).
By January 1174 he had attained the rank of count( Latin" comes"), the highest in the kingdom.
He was one of the earliest members of the Spanish nobility to adopt a toponymic surname( in this case" de Marañón") as a family name.
His interests lay in the far east of the kingdom, in areas once( and again today) a part Navarre, and his toponymic indicates Navarrese origins.
Although, according to Luis de Salazar y Castro, his father was Rodrigo Pérez de Marañón, this filiation has not been documented.
He married Mayor García de Aza, daughter of García Garcés de Aza and his wife, Sancha Pérez.
Their marriage is first recorded in 1169, when Alfonso VIII made a donation of the village of Villasequilla to the couple.
Gonzalo was a frequent recipient of royal largesse.
On 19 September 1144 Alfonso VII granted him the village of Sartaguda, and in 1176 Alfonso VIII confirmed all the grants previously made—though we can not be sure what all they were—save that of Mamblas.
In 1148 Manrique Pérez de Lara and his relatives gave some houses in Toledo to Gonzalo, allowing him to expand his interests into the largest and most prosperous city in the kingdom.
As a young man, between February 1155 and July 1157, Gonzalo held the post of" alférez" at the court of Alfonso VII, the last of Alfonso's" alférezes".
He was thus in charge of the royal military entourage, an office usually reserved for young noblemen, although he held it again under Alfonso VIII from November 1171 until his death.
Between November 1153 and 1172 he held the" tenencia" of Peñafiel.
He founded the Cistercian monastery of Bujedo de Juarros in 1159, and endowed the Benedictine house of San Salvador de Toledo in 1163.
The last record of Gonzalo dates from November 1178.
His widow, Mayor, was still living in January 1182 when she, jointly with her children who confirm the charter, founded a Cistercian convent in the village of.
The children, as recorded in this charter, were Fernando, Pedro, Alberico, Nuño, Domicio, and Inés, who entered the nunnery on that date.
The properties donated for the foundation of the convent, attached to the Monastery of Bujedo de Juarros, were situated in Aza, Torregalindo, Zorita, Hontangas, Sepúlveda, Camareno, and other places.
Three of his sons entered the Order of Santiago, and the eldest rose to the rank of Grand Master.
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Sancho Ramírez of Viguera
Sancho Ramírez (Basque: "Antso Ramirez"; dead c. 1002) was the second King of Viguera, from 981 until his death c. 1002.
He was the eldest son of Ramiro Garcés, the first king of Viguera, and also grandson of García Sánchez I of Pamplona.
Little is known about his reign in Viguera.
Following the death of his father, he appears in documents with his uncle Sancho II Garcés and his brother García Ramírez.
His death is commonly estimated at about 999, but a recently published document shows him still living in 1002.
In that year, between the last appearance of García Sánchez II of Pamplona in 1000 and the first appearance of Sancho III of Navarre in 1004, he appears as king in a context that suggests a greater domain than simply Viguera.
It has been used to suggest that Sancho Ramírez served briefly as ruler of Pamplona itself in the same manner that Jimeno Garcés of Pamplona had ruled during the youth of García Sánchez I.
This 1002 document is the last in which he is found, and he is presumed to have died shortly thereafter.
A woman named Sancha Sánchez appears in Pamplona royal charters in a position of importance, and has been speculated to be his daughter, but her fate is unknown.
He was succeeded in the throne by his brother García Ramírez.
Joan of Aza
Juana de Aza is the name gradually developed in hagiographical tradition for the mother of Saint Dominic.
In the final form of this tradition, she is said to have been born in 1135 in Haza and to have died at Caleruega( Dominic's birthplace) on 4 August 1205.
Juana de Aza was beatified in 1828.
García Garcés de Aza
García Garcés de Aza ("floruit" 1126–1159) was a Castilian magnate "renowned for his wealth and dullness", yet "a prominent figure in the later Andalusian campaigns of the Emperor between 1150 and 1157".
His second name, "Garcés" (sometimes "García"), is a patronymic, indicating that his father was also named García, while his third name, "de Aza" is a toponymic surname frequently found in contemporary documents, in this case indicating that he held the "tenencia" of Aza.
His father was in fact García Ordóñez, and his mother was the latter's second wife, Eva, probably a Frenchwoman.
She re-married after García Ordóñez's death to Pedro González de Lara, and García Garcés was thus a half-brother of Eva's children by Pedro and closely allied with the House of Lara.
According to the "Chronica Adefonsi imperatoris", a contemporary account of the deeds of the Emperor Alfonso VII of León and Castile, when that king first entered the capital city of León after his succession in March 1126, García Garcés was among the Castilians who came to do homage and pledge fealty.
García served Alfonso as "alférez" between 12 December 1126 and 13 November 1127, while his brother Pedro Garcés was "alférez" between 29 May and 18 September 1131.
This post was generally reserved for younger nobleman early in their careers, the different dates of their respective tenures reflect the difference in their ages.
In 1142 García was acting as a civil judge in Ávila.
In 1147, during Alfonso VII's summer campaign against Almería, García does not appear to have joined the army until later, for he does not appear in any document emanating from Alfonso's court until 4 June, when he was at Calatrava.
He neither appears in any later royal charters issued during the campaign, suggesting that he may have been posted at Calatrava with a garrison and did not take part in the sieges of Andújar, Baeza, or Almería.
On 10 November 1155, while both were with the royal court at Ayllón, García sold an estate at Alcolea to his half-brother Manrique Pérez de Lara for one thousand "maravedís".
The charter of sale was drawn up by a certain Sancho, who signed it as "chancellor of Count Manrique".
García married a younger daughter of Pedro Fróilaz de Traba, sometimes named Eva and other times Sancha.
In 1157, with his wife, Sancha Pérez, García donated their "monasterium" (monastic church) of San Florencio near Aza to the abbey of Santo Domingo de Silos "for the relief of our souls and the remission of all our sins".
García and his wife had at least two daughters: Elvira and Mayor, who married Gonzalo de Marañón.
He may have had two additional daughters, Sancha and María, but a claimed daughter, Juana, mother of saint Domingo de Caleruega, is apocryphal.
In 1159, according to Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada in his "De rebus Hispaniae", the Lara family, after they had succeeded by guile in wresting custody of the young King Alfonso VIII from his guardian, Gutierre Fernández de Castro, placed him under the care of García Garcés.
It soon became apparent, however, that he was not wealthy enough to properly look after royalty and he was placed in the household of Manrique.
Also in 1159, García donated the hostel of Tardajos to the Diocese of Burgos.
Alejandro De Aza
Alejandro Alberto De Aza Ceda( born April 11, 1984) is a Dominican professional baseball outfielder for the Lancaster Barnstormers of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball.
He has played in Major League Baseball( MLB) for the Florida Marlins, Chicago White Sox, Baltimore Orioles, Boston Red Sox, San Francisco Giants, New York Mets, and Washington Nationals.
In 2013, De Aza played for the eventual 2013 World Baseball Classic- winning team from the Dominican Republic, having a. 208 batting average and 3 RBI in 8 games as a center fielder, going 1 for 3 in the final game against Puerto Rico.
Place of birth
The place of birth( POB) or birthplace is the place where a person was born.
This place is often used in legal documents, together with name and date of birth, to uniquely identify a person.
As a general rule with respect to passports, the place of birth is determined to be the country that currently has" sovereignty" over the actual place of birth, regardless of when the birth actually occurred.
The place of birth is not necessarily the place where the parents of the new baby live.
If the baby is born in a hospital in another place, that place is the place of birth.
In many countries, this also means that the government requires that the birth of the new baby is registered in the place of birth.
Some countries place less or no importance on the place of birth, instead using alternative geographical characteristics for the purpose of identity documents.
For example, Sweden has used the concept of" födelsehemortdomicile of birth") since 1947.
This means that the domicile of the baby's mother is the registered place of birth.
The location of the maternity ward or other physical birthplace is considered unimportant.
Similarly, Switzerland uses the concept of" Heimatortlieu d'origineluogo d'origineplace of origin" in German, French and Italian respectively).
A child born to Swiss parents is automatically assigned the place of origin of the parent with the same last name, so the child either gets their mother's or father's place of origin.
A child born to one Swiss parent and one foreign parent acquires the place of origin of their Swiss parent.
In a Swiss passport and identity card, the holder's place of origin is stated, not their place of birth.
In some countries( primarily in the Americas), the place of birth automatically determines the nationality of the baby, a practice often referred to by the Latin phrase" jus soli".
Almost all countries outside the Americas instead attribute nationality based on the nationality( ies) of the baby's parents( referred to as" jus sanguinis").
There can be some confusion regarding the place of birth if the birth takes place in an unusual way: when babies are born on an airplane or at sea, difficulties can arise.
The place of birth of such a person depends on the law of the countries involved, which include the nationality of the plane or ship, the nationality( ies) of the parents and/ or the location of the plane or ship( if the birth occurs in the territorial waters or airspace of a country).
Some administrative forms may request the applicant's" country of birth".
It is important to determine from the requester whether the information requested refers to the applicant's" place of birth" or" nationality at birth".
For US citizens born abroad who under the US Constitution acquire US citizenship at the time of birth, the nationality at birth will be USA( American), while the place of birth would be the country in which the actual birth takes place.
Joan of Aza
Juana de Aza is the name gradually developed in hagiographical tradition for the mother of Saint Dominic.
In the final form of this tradition, she is said to have been born in 1135 in Haza and to have died at Caleruega( Dominic's birthplace) on 4 August 1205.
Juana de Aza was beatified in 1828.
Motherland (disambiguation)
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Question: Where did García Garcés De Aza's father die?
Answer: Uclés