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Son of Ramiro 1st and Ermesinda of Foix.
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He married at first nuptials, possibly in 1062 or 1063, with Isabel de Urgel from which the future King Pedro I was born.
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He is proclaimed king of Aragon.
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The square was governed by the brother-in-law of Sancho Ramírez Armengol III, count of Urgel, although he died on the battlefield before April 17, 1065, when Al-Muqtadir, king of the taifa of Zaragoza, reacted by requesting the jihad of all al-Ándalus, and returned to recover the capital of the northeast district of the taifa of Zaragoza and key to the rich fertile valley of the Cinca, as well as the headquarters of an important market.
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Before 1067 (probably in 1065) he conquered Alquézar, whose term included the towns of Buera, Colungo and Adahuesca
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The 14 of February of 1068 Sancho Ramírez travels to Rome to consolidate the young Kingdom of Aragón offering itself in vasallaje to Pope Alexander II.
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His first son was born in 1068 in the Valley of Aran.
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The king of Pamplona, Sancho Garcés, cousin of Sancho Ramírez, was assassinated in 1076, thrown into a hunting party from a high rock. The people of Pamplona, not wanting to be governed by their brother Ramón, who was considered the fratricide, chose Sancho Ramírez for his king, who united the kingdom of Pamplona with that of Aragón.
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One of the most decisive actions of his reign is the granting of the Jurisdiction of Jaca (1077), by which he granted the rank of city to that which had been a village located on the Camino de Santiago, and converted it into the capital of the kingdom of Aragon and episcopal headquarters, commanding the construction of the cathedral of Jaques for this purpose.
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In 1078 he cut the fields of Zaragoza and began to build the fortress of El Castellar on the banks of the Ebro, only 20 kilometers upstream from the capital of the Taifa de Saraqusta, whose tenants are documented since 1091. Subsequently he made tributary to the Muslim King of Zaragoza
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In 1083 he seized Graus and Ayerbe, which he ordered to repopulate. These two populations opened the way to the conquest of the lowlands of the Cinca and the Hoya de Huesca respectively.
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His third son was born in 1086 in Aragon.
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In 1087 the king of Aragon added a new conquest in the course of the Cinca: Estada, at the confluence of this river with the Ésera.
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Following this fluvial course took Estadilla and arrived until Zaidín, to twelve kilometers of Fraga, in 1092, thanks to the conquering action of its first-born, the infant Pedro, to who had given the government of the important place of Monzón, taken by Sancho Ramírez in 1089, and delivered as acapto as title of kingdom to the future Pedro I, that from 1085 governed Ribagorza.
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He died on June 4 of the year 1094 of a crush that was besieging Huesca. His body was taken to the monastery of Montearagón, and later transferred to San Juan de la Peña.
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