The castles that guard Navarre's eastern side against Aragon, from the Roncal valley to the hills above the river Aragón.
In spring 1198 Peter II invaded from the east and took Aibar and Burgui (in the Roncal), in the district of Sangüesa (Auñamendi); the campaign ended in July 1198. A Navarre and Aragon understanding followed, but in February 1199 Innocent III annulled Sancho's oath to Peter II, and Aragon stayed out of the 1199 war. Whether Aibar and Burgui had been handed back by 1 January 1200 is not pinned, so they are marked contested.
Gallipienzo, Cáseda, Ujué and San Martín de Unx, on the heights between the Aragón and the Valdorba, are Navarrese.
Who he is
- Name
- Tenentes not pinned for 1199-1200
- Title
- Royal castles held by tenentes for Sancho VII
- Confidence
- low
No confirmation list of 1199-1200 found.
Overlord
Sancho VII of Navarre
What it holds
- Burgui (contested)
- Aibar (contested)
- Gallipienzo
- Cáseda
- Ujué
- San Martín de Unx
How it was acquired
Old Navarrese royal castles.
Allies and rivals
Facing Aragonese Sos, Uncastillo, Navardún and the Valley of Ansó.
How things stand that morning
Burgui and Aibar CONTESTED (taken by Aragon 1198; return not pinned); the others HELD.
Wealth
Pasture routes from the Roncal and Salazar to the Bardenas; the Aragón valley's grain and wine.
Military
Castles; numbers not known.
Threats
- Aragon acting on the Calatayud partition while the king is away
What the year holds
What happened next, if nothing in play changes it. Each event carries what it depends on and what would stop it.
- 1200 (not pinned)Peace between Peter II and Navarre (naiz, undated) settles the 1198 conquests.Depends on: Peter II's interest in Navarrese money and in Languedoc. Stopped by: Castile drawing Aragon into a new partition.
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: The 1198 losses are from Auñamendi and Nabarlur; status in January 1200 is not known.
On the map: Municipalities stand for castles and their districts.
Primary sources for Navarre
Chronicles, registers, sagas and inscriptions written in or near 1200 that cover this entry. Each has its own page with editions, translations and where to read it.
- Annals of Toledo and other short Iberian annals (12th and 13th centuries; Anales Toledanos I to 1219). Florez's volume 23 gathers the short annals of the peninsula. Read online
- Latin Chronicle of the Kings of Castile, Anonymous, probably Juan of Osma, chancellor of Castile (about 1223 to 1239). The chancellor's chronicle of Alfonso VIII's reign, detailed from the 1190s. Read online
- Chronicle of Roger of Howden, Roger of Howden (about 1192 to 1201). The fullest single narrative for the year. Read online
- The Wondrous Account of the History of al-Andalus and the Maghreb, Ibn Idhari al-Marrakushi (about 1312, at Marrakesh). The Almohad section is the fullest year-by-year narrative of the caliphate around 1200: the last campaigns and the death of Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Mansur in January 1199, the accession of his son Muhammad al-Nasir, the renewed war of the Banu Ghaniya in Ifriqiya under Yahya ibn Ishaq and his ally Qaraqush, the Almohad losses of Mahdia and Tunis a few years later, and al-Nasir's reconquest of Ifriqiya in 1205 to 1206 followed by the appointment of Abd al-Wahid ibn Abi Hafs as governor. Read online
- History of the Affairs of Spain, Rodrigo Jimenez de Rada (completed 1243). The archbishop's history of the peninsula, written forty years on by a Navarrese who served Castile. Read online
- The Book of Census of the Roman Church, Cencius Camerarius (Cencio Savelli, later Pope Honorius III) (1192, with later additions). The papal rent roll: every church, monastery, town and kingdom that owed a census to Rome in 1192, diocese by diocese, with the sums, followed by lists of papal lands and castles, the ceremonial Ordo and copies of charters. Read online
- The Registers of Pope Innocent III for 1199 to 1201, Innocent III and the papal chancery (22 February 1199 to 21 February 1201). The pope's outgoing letters for the year, in his chancery's own copy, touching nearly every realm in the atlas. Read online
- The Great Book of Fiefs, Various; compiled by Ramon de Caldes for Alfonso II of Aragon (compiled 1192 to 1194). The register of the count-king's feudal rights, finished a few years before 1200 and in use at Peter II's court: some 900 charters of homage, convention, oath, sale and marriage arranged by county and lineage, covering Catalonia, Roussillon, Cerdanya, Pallars, Urgell, the Carcassonne and Beziers lands of the Trencavels, Provence and Aragon.
3 more in the sources library for France and Iberia.
Sources and studies
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.