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Battle of Atapuerca
Panoramic of the Sierra de Atapuerca
Date
1 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
County of Castile
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.
^Joseph F. O'Callaghan, A History of Medieval Spain, (Cornell University Press, 1975), 195.
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