Death of Sancho III of Navarre

1035

The Basque king who had assembled the largest Christian realm in Iberia since the Visigoths divided his territory among his four sons. From his partition emerged the kingdoms of Castile, Aragon, and a diminished Navarre. The Christian north of Spain was thus redrawn in a single testament, creating the rival kingdoms whose competition would drive the Reconquista forward over the next four centuries.