, Galindo Aznárez I

Galindo Aznárez I (died 867) was Count of Aragón from 844 to 867. He wasthe son of Aznar Galíndez I, who had been Count of Aragón from 809 to820, when a practical joke played by Galindo on his brother-in-law GarcíaGalíndez led the latter to enlist the support of the Pamplona in usurpingthe county. Aznar was compensated by French king Louis the Pious with thecounties of Urgell, Cerdanya, and Conflent. Galindo Aznárez receivedthese three counties from his father sometime before 833, in which yearhe usurped the counties of Pallars and Ribagorza. For this action he wasdispossessed of Urgell and Cerdagne by Louis in 834, and was subsequentlyejected from Pallars and Ribagorza by the Counts of Toulouse. Upon theheirless death in 844 of count Galindo Garcés, son of his father''s rival,Galindo was allowed to assume the countship of Aragón in exchange forrecognition of the suzerainty of Pamplona over the formerly-Frenchcounty.
Galindo Aznárez had one son, Aznar Galíndez II, his successor, while inan 867 charter, he names his son-in-law ''king'' Sancho, apparently theyounger son of king García Íñiguez of Pamplona.