Peter I of Aragon
| Peter I | |
|---|---|
| King of Aragon and Pamplona | |
| Tenure | 1094 - 1104 |
| Predecessor | Sancho Ramírez |
| Successor | Alfonso |
| Born | c. 1068 |
| Died | 1104 |
| Spouse |
Agnes of Aquitaine Bertha of Aragon |
| Issue | Pedro Inés |
| House | House of Jiménez |
| Father | Sancho Ramírez |
| Mother | Isabella of Urgell |
| Religion | Catholicism |
Peter I (c. 1068 - 1104) was King of Aragon and also King of Pamplona under the name Pedro Sánchez I (Basque: Petri I.a Sanoitz) from 1094 until his death in 1104. Peter was the eldest son of Sancho Ramírez, from whom he inherited the crown of Aragon and Pamplona, and Isabella of Urgell. He was named in honour of Saint Peter, because of his father's special devotion to the Holy See, to which he had made his kingdom a vassal. Peter continued his father's close alliance with the Church and pursued his military thrust south against bordering Al-Andalus taifas with great success, allying with Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, known as El Cid, the ruler of Valencia, against the Almoravids. According to the medieval Annales Compostellani Peter was "expert in war and daring in initiative", and one modern historian has remarked that "his grasp of the possibilities inherent in the age seems to have been faultless."
The Crónica de San Juan de la Peña, a rather late source for Peter's reign, states that Peter was 35 years of age when he died, which places his birth in 1068 or 1069. As a child Peter was placed in the line of succession to the County of Urgell by the first testament of his uncle Count Ermengol IV, after Ermengol's own son and brothers. He was not destined to inherit it. In 1085, two years after his father had conquered Graus (28 April 1083), Peter was entrusted with Sobrarbe and Ribagorza as a subkingdom with its capital at Graus, which he thenceforth ruled more or less independently with the title of king (Latin rex). On 28 October 1087 Peter joined his father in Pamplona in Navarre, where the two monarchs confirmed the rights of the bishops in the city. He pursued the Reconquista with vigour in the southeast of the realm. In 1087 he may have been present at the unsuccessful siege of Tudela. Later that year he conquered Estada, in 1088 Montearagón, and on 24 June 1089 Monzón. These conquests opened up the valley of the Cinca, which he proceeded to conquer as far as Almenar, taken in 1093.
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