King of Navarre and Castille 1004-1035. Father of King Don Ferrando.
Sancho el Mayor was the first to have combined two kingdoms of northern Spain. On his death his united kingdom was divided among his male hers: Ferrando (Fernando I of Castille 1035-1065); Garcia (Garcia I of Navarre 1035-1054); Ramiro (Ramiro I of Aragon 1035-1063); and Gonzalo (Count of Sobrarbe and Ribagorza 1035-1063).
King Don Ferrando succeeded to the states of Castille after the death of his father King Don Sancho el Mayor, in the aera 1072, which was the year of the Incarnation 1034, and from the coming of the Patriarch Tubal to settle in Spain 3197, and from the general deluge 3339, and from the creation of the world 4995, according to the computation of the Hebrews, and from the beginning of the false sect of the Moors 413.