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García II

king of Galicia
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Born:
1042?
Died:
March 22, 1090, Luna Castle [Spain]
Title / Office:
king (1065-1071), Galicia
Notable Family Members:
father Ferdinand I
brother Alfonso VI
brother Sancho II
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García II (born 1042?—died March 22, 1090, Luna Castle [Spain]) was the king of Galicia from 1065 to 1071. His father, Ferdinand I the Great, divided his lands among his three sons: Alfonso VI received Leon; Sancho II received Castile; and García II, the youngest, received Galicia with a portion of Portugal (1065). Despotic and suspicious, García was deprived of his kingdom by his brother Sancho II and sent into exile to the Moorish court at Sevilla (Seville). When Sancho II was assassinated during a fratricidal struggle with Alfonso VI and their sister Urraca, García returned from Sevilla. Alfonso VI, then in control, had him arrested and imprisoned in the castle at Luna (1073), never to be released. García became a figure of Castilian poetry and romance, popular in the Middle Ages.

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