Sancho Garcés III (
Basque:
Antso III.a Gartzez; c. 990 – 18 October 1035), also known as
Sancho III of Pamplona and nicknamed
the Great, was
King of Pamplona and
Count of Aragon from 1004 until his death in 1035. He also ruled by marriage the counties of
Castile,
Álava and
Monzón, which later expanded with the acquisition of the County of Cea in 1030 and the counties of Sobrarbe (1015) and
Ribagoza (1018). He would later intervene in the
Kingdom of León, taking the capital city.