One of two proposed derivations for 11th century count García Ordóñez would make him a scion of the dynasty.
Mio Cid, Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, conquered King Zirí Abd'Allah of Granada in the Battle of Cabra, and in his castle mesó from the beards to García Ordóñez, origin of Leader Sang of Mio.
On 1 February 1095, Count García Ordóñez and his wife, Infanta Urraca Garcés, sister of Sancho IV of Navarre, granted a fuero of privileges to Fresnillo, then a part of their lordship centred on Nájera.
More probably she was from southern France, being the daughter of Almanricus, viscount of Rochechouart and one of those French barons who had answered Alfonso VI's international call for aid against the Almoravids following the Battle of Sagrajas (1086).
Alfonso VI of León and Castile entrusted the tenencia to Diego López I de Haro after the death of count García Ordóñez and the first of the lords of Biscay to attach the name of this town to his patronymic was Diego's son, Lope Díaz I de Haro.
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