Andregota Galíndez
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Andregoto Galíndez was daughter of Count Galindo II Aznárez
Galindo II Aznárez
Galindo Aznárez II was Count of Aragón , the son and successor of Aznar Galíndez II.Galindo was one of a coalition that sponsored the 905 coup d'état in Pamplona in favor of his brother-in-law, Sancho I of Pamplona. However, he turned on this new king and in 911 attacked him in concert with...

 Count of Aragon
County of Aragon
The County of Aragon or Jaca was a small Frankish marcher county in the central Pyrenean valley of the Aragon river, comprising Ansó, Echo, and Canfranc and centred on the small town of Jaca...

 from 922, being by his second wife, Sancha Garcés of Pamplona. She is frequently referred to as Countess, and made heiress to her father, yet she was not the eldest daughter of her father, and likewise Aragon had already been absorbed into the Kingdom of Pamplona by Sancho I of Pamplona
Sancho I of Pamplona
Sancho I Garcés was king of Pamplona from 905 to 925. He was a son of García Jiménez, who was king of "another part of the kingdom" of Pamplona and Dadildis de Pallars, his second wife...

, years before her marriage to that king's son, García Sánchez I. Prior to 940, García divorced Andregoto due to consanguinity
Consanguinity
Consanguinity refers to the property of being from the same kinship as another person. In that respect, consanguinity is the quality of being descended from the same ancestor as another person...

, the two being half-first-cousins. They left a sole son, Sancho II of Pamplona
Sancho II of Pamplona
Sancho II Garcés Abarca was King of Pamplona from 970 until his death. He was the son of García Sánchez I and Andregota, daughter of Galindo Aznárez II, Count of Aragon...

, and may also have had two daughters, Toda who appears in 991 as sister of king Sancho, and Urraca, wife successively of Fernán González of Castile and William Sancho of Gascony
William II Sánchez of Gascony
William II Sánchez , Duke of Gascony from circa 961 at least until 996, was the younger illegitimate son of duke Sancho IV and successor, around 961, of his childless elder brother, duke Sancho V. He united the County of Bordeaux with the Gascony...

. It has been suggested that Andregoto remarried and had further children, although the details have not been discovered. Endregota, wife of 11th century count Sancho Maceratiz, calls herself a descendant of Andregoto Galíndez, but Ubieto Arteta suggests the later countess descended from her sister Velasquita Galíndez.

Sources

Gonzalo Martínez Díez (2005). El condado de Castilla (711-1038): la historia frente a la leyenda. Marcial Pons Historia
Gonzalo Martínez Díez (2007). Sancho el Mayor: Rey de Pamplona, Rex Ibericus. Marcial Pons Historia
Jaime de Salazar y Acha (2006). "Urraca, un nombre egregio en la onomástica altomedieval". En la España medieval, 1:29–48.
Antonio Ubieto Arteta (1952). "Doña Andregoto Galindez, reina de Pamplona y condesa de Aragón", Actas del Primer Congreso Internacional de Estudios Pirenáicos, Vol. 6, pp. 165-179
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