García Gómez (died after 1017) was aLeonese count, at least from 971. He was the eldest son ofGómez Díaz [es] and Muniadomna Fernández, daughter ofFernán González,Count of Castile. From his father, the head of theBanu Gómez family, he inherited the counties ofSaldaña,Carrión, andLiébana.
By a charter dated 15 May 984 García donated some property atCalzadilla de Cueza to theMonastery of Sahagún. On 1 September 986 he witnessed a donation of his supposed uncle Osorio Díaz of thevilla Arcello to the same monastery.
García married Muniadomna, daughter ofGonzalo Vermúdez and Ildonza Ramírez and a niece ofVelasquita Ramírez, the queen ofVermudo II of León. In 988–9 he and his father-in-law, perhaps with the support of the Ansúrez clan, were in rebellion against Vermudo II.[1] Leagued withAlmanzor, the Muslimhajib, who marched onLeón, the rebels forced Vermudo to take refuge inGalicia and expelled thecounts of Monzón from theTierra de Campos.[2] The entire land betweenZamora and Castie, including León itself, was in the hands of García, governing under the authority of Almanzor. He went so far as to title himself "ruling (imperante) in León" in the early months of 990.[3] In 990 Vermudo returned and ousted the rebels, who quickly reconciled with him.
García Gómez also supported the revolt between November 991 and September 992 that expelled Vermudo from the kingdom, a revolt led by his father-in-law,Munio Fernández, and countPelayo Rodríguez.[4] He was on better terms with Vermudo's successor,Alfonso V.
On 29 June 1000 he participated in theBattle of Cervera. According toIbn al-Khatib, at Cervera Kayaddayr al-Dammari al-Abra (the Leper), a prince of the north African tribe of theBanu Dammari, decapitated one of the counts of theBanu Gómez and carried his head about with him.[5] García's three brothers, Velasco, Sancho, and Munio, also bore the title count, but only Velasco does not appear in any sources after 1000 and can therefore be identified as the one killed at Cervera.[6] The only narrative Christian sources to mention the battle, both closely related to the Muslims histories, differ from them in stressing the leadership of García Gómez. TheAnales Castellanos Segundos record thatIn era MXXXVIII [año 1000] fuit arrancada de Cervera super conde Sancium Garcia et Garcia Gomez: "In theEra 1038 [AD 1000] was the defeat of Cervera over countSancho García and García Gómez."[7] According to theAnales Toledanos Primeros, inEra MCCCVIII fue la arranda [arrancada] de Cervera sobre el conde don Sancho García e García Gómez: "Era 1308 [sic] was the defeat of Cervera over the count don Sancho García and García Gómez."[7]
Recently, Margarita Torres Sevilla has proposed identifying García Gómez with the "Ibn Mama Duna" or "Ibn Mumadumna al-Qumis" (son/descendant of Muniadomna, the Count) who in 1009 enteredCórdoba and installed ascaliph oneSulayman ibn Hakam, the candidate of theBerbers.[8] The evidence is, however, very weak and the Christian count who entered Córdoba that year was Sancho García of Castile.[9]
After the Almanzor's death (1002), García was one of the barons of the realm who signed the peace treaty with the former's son,al-Muzzaffar. In 1005 he addedCea andGrajal to his domains and in 1007Ceión. García rebelled again in 1007, when he used the title Count ofLeón.
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