 Sancho the Great, who had united most of Christian Iberia under his control, gave lands in Aragon to his illegitimate son, Ramiro as early as 1015.With the deaths of his father in 1035 and brother, Gonzalo of Sobrarbe and Ribagorza, whose lands he also acquired, in 1043, Ramiro held the nucleus of what would become the Kingdom of Aragon.From the death of Galindo Aznárez II, the county of Aragon was incorporated within the crown of Navarre "(for kings of Navarre during this period see