Sancho II of Pamplona

Sancho II Garcés, called Abarca (c. 938–994), inherited the County of Aragon through his mother in 948 and became king of Pamplona on his father's death in 970. He was the first to style himself king of Navarre.

In 976 the Codex Vigilanus, with the earliest Western Arabic numerals, was completed at Albelda in his reign. Later he suffered repeated defeats by Almanzor of Córdoba: after the battle of Rueda in 981 he submitted at Córdoba in person, giving his daughter to the Muslim ruler. Further raids led him to submit again in 992, and he died during another caliphal raid in 994.