Elegance & Tradition

The Jiménez dynasty, alternatively called the Jimena, the Sancha, the Banu Sancho, the Abarca or the Banu Abarca, was a medieval ruling family which, beginning in the 9th century, eventually grew to control the royal houses of several kingdoms on the Iberian Peninsula during the 11th and 12th centuries, namely the Kingdoms of Navarre, Aragon, Castle, León and Galicia as well as of other territories in Southern France present day Loire by expanding a rule over what today is known as Blois. The family played a major role in the Reconquista, expanding the territory under the direct control of the Christian states as well as subjecting neighboring Muslim taifas to vassalage. 

After the foundation of the House of Jimenez by the Navarrese Kingdom in the Iberian Peninsula, the Jimenez family rulers went to Valencia, present day Spain who at the time wanted to negotiate or fight lands in the Reconquista period. That is where they met the Muslims rulers of the southern part in the Iberian peninsula. King Sancho met his counterpart the Umayyad Caliphate of Cordoba, and by then women were offered to King Sancho by the muslims rulers in agreement to try live in harmony without contesting a fight, that's where Abd al-Rahman al-Mahdi, nicknamed Sanchol, Sanchuelo, or "Little Sancho" who was the ʿĀmirid hajib of the Caliphate of Córdoba born as the son of King Sancho, the Strongest. His successor was Abd-al-Aziz al-Mansur the grand-son of King Sancho whose father was Abd al-Rahman al-Mahdi. From there Abd al-Malik, originally called Sayf al-Dawla, later al-Muẓaffar became the successor, and after his brother, Abu Bakr of Valencia and finally his son Uthman of Valencia. By then, the House of Jimenez reunified the territory with the Muslims and Kingdom of Navarre completing the conquest of the Iberian Peninsula. Al-Ma'mun the great-grandson of Sancho wrote a book after moving to Baghdad and learning what is today known as sciences in the Iberian Peninsula, and publishing a book with the name "Algebra" which is what today we know in sciences as "mathematics" in the Islamic Golden Age. The children of Al-Ma'mun were Ismail and a daughter who is not known by name but both married together and procreated Umayyad Abd al-Malik of Toledo and Valencia and Yahya ibn Ismail ibn Yahya who was the Caliph of Toledo and Valencia as well as his sucessor.  Abu Ahmad Jaafar bin Abdullah bin Jahhaff al-Ma’afari the successor of Ismail ibn Yahya went fighting within the branches of Jimenez family on disagreements we can't find answers to questions on the bureaucracy at the time and the legacy of King Sancho Jimenez, his muslims sons and grand children were forgotten after he worked and founded the Arab line of succession within the Jimenez Muslims cadet branch that lasted two centuries and it went to fell back into the hands of El Cid Campeador, whose wife was Jimena Diaz who brought all Jimenez family to fight along him against the Arabs to reconquer the land and regain the territory where the Jimenez family was in position to control the region creating a reunification of the whole Iberian peninsula to what is known today as Spain and Portugal.

King Sancho Jimenez VI of Navarre married Blanca Jimenez whom had King Sancho Jimenez III. Their grandmother was Queen Elvira of Navarre, who was daughter of Prince Ramiro and he was married to Princess Cristina Garcia Jimenez of Pamplona. King Sancho VI known as the Wise, had a son named King Sancho VII known as the Strong. His brother King Sancho III who was married to Blanca Jimenez Garcia of Pamplona, a grand-daughter of King Urraca Jimenez Garcia Ramirez like all of them whose mother was Queen Elvira Jimenez Sanchez. Blanca or Blanche now set up in France and Sancho III gave birth to King Alfonso VIII who was married to Queen Eleanor of England which issued Urraca, Queen of Portugal, Blanche, Queen of France, and King Ferdinand of Aragon and Castile. King Alfonso VIII and Queen Leonor of England became the parents of King Richard I of England, and Saint Berenguela of Navarre. The latter married her brother Richard I of England at the Saint George Church in Cyprus issuing King Alfonso IX And King Ferdinand III. Her sister, too named Blanche Jimenez married King Louis IX of France also known as Saint Louis, who was King of France from 1226 until his death in 1270. They procreated King Louis X of France who was known as the Quarrelsome, King of France until his death readmitting the Jews into the kingdom. The other son of King Alfonso VIII and Queen Eleanor of England who were the parents of those mentioned before they had two more sisters which were Princess Urraca Jimenez, and Princess Leonor Jimenez. Princess Urraca married King Alfonso II of Portugal and Princess Leonor married King James I of England who had another spouse named Anne of Denmark. The parents of King James I was Mary, Queen of the Scots and Henry Stuart, the King of Scotland. Princess Leonor wasn’t able to conceive children nevertheless, her sister Princess Urraca gave birth to King Sancho Jimenez III of Portugal and to another son named King Alfonso III of Portugal and Spain that belonged to the House of Burgundy which is a cadet branch of the House of Jimenez.

The House of Jimenez was the first House of Spain that developed what is today know in present day Royals. King Ferdinand of Spain, the King of the Holy Roman Empire was married of Princess Jimena in Spain while he had Anna of Bohemia and Hungary as a mistress in the 1530s. Most marriages during the medieval times were coupled in between the Jimenez family in which the King or Queen decided which one to choose as his mistresses or lover in the house. King Ferdinand came from the marriage of King Philip the Handsome and Queen Elvira Jimenez. There is a monument in Granada honoring Elvira at the center of the city called ‘La Puerta de Elvira’ and numerous streets named Abarca, Sancho, Jimenez, et al. The mother of Ferdinand gave birth to King Alfonso V, who was King of Aragon and King of Sicily and the ruler of the Crown of Aragon and King of Naples. King Alfonso V married his sister, who was also named Princess Elvira. Alfonso V gave birth to King Ferdinand I who was Holy Roman Emperor from 1556, King of Bohemia, Hungary, and Croatia from 1526, and Archduke of Austria from 1521 until his death in 1564. Ferdinand had a brother named Alfonso VI who was born from Vermouth II and King Sancha Jimenez Garcia. Alfonso VI nicknamed the Brave, or the Valiant, rained Galicia, Castile, Toledo, and undertook with El Cid as company on the conquest of Valencia. 

The House of Jimenez never went extinct. Actually, the Jimenez Dynasty is the precursor of the Bourbon family in Spain.