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Pedro de Atarés

Pedro de Atarés
Lord of Atarés, Aibar, Javierrelatre and Borja
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Portrait of Pedro de Atarés at the Zaragoza Museum
Noble family Jiménez dynasty
Father García Sánchez
Mother Teresa Cajal
Born c. 1083
Died 21 February 1151
Borja
Buried Veruela Abbey

Pedro de Atarés (c. 1083, Borja – 21 February 1151) was a Spanish noble and member of the House of Aragón. He founded the Veruela Abbey, the oldest Cistercian monastery in Aragon.

Pedro de Atarés was the son of García Sánchez, Lord of Aibar, Atarés, and Javierrelatre, and grandson of Sancho Ramírez, Count of Ribagorza, an illegitimate child of King Ramiro I. His mother was Teresa Cajal, a sister of Fortún Garcés Cajal, one of the most powerful magnates in the Kingdom of Aragón.

Lord of Atarés and Javierrelatre, which he inherited from his father, and of Borja, thanks to the donation by King Alfonso VII of Castile, Pedro de Atarés was one of the claimants to the throne of Aragón after the death, without issue, of King Alfonso I the Battler. According to the Crónica de San Juan de la Peña, written in the 14th century, his haughty behavior cost him the crown and the Aragonese barons in an assembly chose the deceased king's brother who reigned as Ramiro II.

In 1146, Pedro de Atarés founded Veruela Abbey (Real Monasterio de Santa María de Veruela), the most ancient Cistercian monastery in Aragon, with a donation, also confirmed by his mother, to the abbot of the Escaladieu Abbey in France. This donation was later confirmed in 1155 by Count Raymond Berenguer IV.


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