Battle of Atapuerca

Battle of Atapuerca

Panoramic of the Sierra de Atapuerca
Date1 September 1054
Location
Near Atapuerca, Kingdom of Pamplona (present-day Province of Burgos, Castile and León)
Result Leonese & Castilian victory
Territorial
changes
Reannexation by the Kingdom of León of Pamplonese territories south of the Ebro
Belligerents

Kingdom of León

Kingdom of Pamplona
Commanders and leaders
Ferdinand I of León and Castile
Diego Laínez
García Sánchez III of Navarre 
Fortún Sánchez 
Units involved
Moorish auxiliary troops

The Battle of Atapuerca was fought on 1 September 1054 at the site of Piedrahita ("standing stone") in the valley of Atapuerca between two brothers, King García Sánchez III of Navarre and King Ferdinand I of Castile.

The Castilians won and King García and his favourite Fortún Sánchez were killed in battle.[1] Ferdinand reannexed Navarrese territory he conceded to García 17 years earlier after his brother's assistance at Pisuerga.

  1. ^ Joseph F. O'Callaghan, A History of Medieval Spain, (Cornell University Press, 1975), 195.

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