Roger I "le Vieux" DE COMMINGES Comte de Carcassonne
(Est 935-Aft 1011)
Adelais DE MELGUEIL
(-Aft 1011)
Cte Garcia Arnaud DE BIGORRE
(-Aft 1025)
Richarde
(-1046)
Bernard Roger DE CARCASSONNE, Comte de Cousserans...
(Bef 981-1038)
Ctse Gersende DE BIGORRE
(Abt 986-Abt 1033)
Etiennette DE FOIX
(-Aft 1066)

 

Family Links

Spouses/Children:
1. García V "él de Nájera” DE NAVARRA, King of Navarre

  • Urraca DE NAVARRA
  • Ermesinda DE NAVARRA
  • Ramíro DE NAVARRA
  • Fernando DE NAVARRA, Señor de Bucesta, Jubera, Lagunilla y Oprela
  • Ramón DE NAVARRA, Señor de Murillo y Cameros
  • Jimena DE NAVARRA
  • Mayor DE NAVARRA
  • Sancha DE NAVARRA

Etiennette DE FOIX

  • Married: 1038
  • Died: After 1066

  Orthographic variation: Estaphania

  Research Notes:

"Garsea…rex, Sancionis regis filius…cum coniuge mea domina Stefania regina" granted two monasteries to abbot Gómez of Yábar by charter dated 1040. The primary source which confirms her parentage has not yet been identified. According to Marca, "les mémoires du convent de Nagara" state that she was "fille du comte de Foix", but he does not provide a direct quote or source reference. The Histoire Générale de Languedoc refers to a marriage contract (again, no quote or source reference) dated 1036, but this is not reproduced by Marca.... Salazar y Acha suggests that Stephanie was a widow when she married King García, and the mother of a daughter Constanza who married her [second] husband´s illegitimate son Sancho... Firstly, he says that this would explain Stephanie´s presence in Barcelona when she married, which is confirmed by the charter dated 1038 from San Juan de la Peña which names her for the first time with King García and records that he fetched her in Barcelona. Secondly, it would explain the charter dated 29 Nov 1074 under which her son Sancho IV King of Navarre granted “unas casas en la ciudad de Calahorra” to “germano meo domno Sancio et uxori vestra vel germana mea domna Constanza”, the reference to his sister-in-law as “germana mea” being unusual if she was not also his own sister. Thirdly, it accords with the narrative in the Crónica Najerense which recounts that “infans domnus Sancius, quem rex Garsias Pampilonensium ex concubina habuerat” abducted “filiam regine Stephanie”, who was betrothed to “Santius rex”, and took her to the court of the Moorish king of Zaragoza and later to Ramiro I King of Aragon, triggering the war between Castille and Aragon in the course of which the Aragonese king was killed in 1064. Salazar y Acha speculates that Stephanie´s first husband was an otherwise unidentified son of Bernardo [I] Conde de Besalú (whose possible sister was named Constanza) but this is only one of the possibilities. However, Salazar y Acha´s hypothesis, although appealing, appears unlikely to be correct because Queen Estefania does not include Constanza in her testament dated to [1066] which names all her other known children.

"Garsea…rex…cum mulier mea Stephania regina" confirmed the resettlement of Villanova de Pampaneto by charter dated 1 Jan 1044. "Stephanie coniugis" is named in the charter of "Garsia rex, Sancii regis filius" dated 2 Dec 1052. 1

  Marriage Information:

Etiennette married García V "él de Nájera” DE NAVARRA, King of Navarre, son of Sancho III "el Mayor" DE NAVARRA, King of Navarre, and Cdsa Munia Mayor DE CASTILLA, in 1038. (García V "él de Nájera” DE NAVARRA was born between 1005 and 1010 and died on 1 Sep 1054 at the Battle of Atapuerca, near Burgos, Castile, Spain.)

Sources


1 Foundation for Medieval Genealogy, Medlands: Etiennette.


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