[5] Sancho had refused to respect the peace that the late Ordoño had agreed with the Cordovans, who sent an army against him that defeated him in 957, an event that increased his discredit and favoured his overthrow.

[7][6] During his exile in Andalus, according to Dozy, Sancho managed to shed at least some portion of his girth under the treatment of court doctor Hasdai ibn Shaprut[8] by not allowing him to take more than infusions for forty days.

[11][12] The king did not take long to forget his agreement with Abderramán III, who then came to support Ordoño IV, although this time, their confrontation did not go beyond a few punitive raids on his lands.

[14] According to the chronicle of Sampiro, in the Galician monastery of Castrelo de Miño by the rebel count Gonzalo Menéndez, who gave him a poisonous apple: Gundisaluus, qui dux erat (...) veneni pocula illi in pomo duxit.

[17] This church was part of a monastery, now disappeared, which was founded during the reign of Ramiro II by his daughter, the Infanta Elvira Ramírez, who wanted to be a nun.

[17] In the same church, the kings Ordoño III and Ramiro II, father and brother of Sancho I the Gross, had previously been buried.