GarcÃÂa II Sánchez (Basque: Gartzia Antso, French: Garsie-Sanche le Tors or le Courbé, Gascon: Gassia Sans, Latin: Garsia Sancius Corvum; died 930), called the Bent, was Duke of Gascony from sometime before 887 to his death.
He was probably a son of Sancho Sánchez or of Sancho Mitarra, though older sources give a genealogy with a Spanish origin.
His ancestry is, in the end, unknown. He may have been a cousin of Arnold, who some sources claim acted as regent during his minority following his fatherâÂÂs death in 864 (if his father was Sánchez). Other sources place Arnold as SanchoâÂÂs successor and date his death to that same year. Whatever the case, GarcÃÂa was in power by 887.
In that year, he appeared in a charter issued by the grandees of Aquitaine assembled at Bourges to decide on a course of action in the twilight of the reign of Charles the Fat. In 904, he was using the title comes et marchio in limitibus oceani: "count and margrave to the limits of the ocean." GarcÃÂa was the first of a line of dukes which ruled Gascony until 1032 and incorporated the County of Bordeaux into its demesne. GarcÃÂaâÂÂs daughter Andregoto married one Raymond, who fathered William the Good, Count of Bordeaux. GarcÃÂa divided his domain between his three sons by Amuna: