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==== Attacks on Pamplona and the Catalan counties ==== In 982, he launched the "campaign of the three nations' possibly against Castile, [[Kingdom of Navarre|Pamplona]] and the [[Girona]] [[Franks]],{{Sfn|Bramon|1994|p=127}}{{Sfn|Molina|1981|p=247}} that forced the [[List of Navarrese monarchs|king of Pamplona]], [[Sancho II of Pamplona|Sancho II]] to give to Almanzor a daughter,{{Sfn|Martínez Díez|2005|p=501}}{{Sfn|Castellanos Gómez|2002|p=82}}{{Sfn|Cañada Juste|1992|pp=377–378}} who would take the name Abda.{{Sfn|Kennedy|1996|p=120}}{{Sfn|Bariani|2003|p=218}} This union would produce the last of Almanzor's political dynasty, [[Abd al-Rahman Sanchuelo]].{{Sfn|Martínez Díez|2005|p=501}}{{Sfn|Lévi Provençal|1957|p=421}}{{Sfn|Kennedy|1996|p=120}}{{Sfn|Bariani|2003|p=218}}{{Sfn|Castellanos Gómez|2002|p=82}}{{Sfn|Cañada Juste|1992|p=378}} In 985, exploiting the subjugation of León and Castile, he [[Sack of Barcelona (985)|attacked]] Barcelona,{{Sfn|Sánchez Candeira|1999|p=24}}{{Sfn|Bramon|1994|p=127}}{{Sfn|Seco de Lucena Paredes|1965|p=19}} which he managed to take in early July, treating it harshly.{{Sfn|Martínez Díez|2005|p=510}}{{Sfn|Castellanos Gómez|2002|p=90}} Almanzor had previously attacked the region in the summer of 978,{{Sfn|Castellanos Gómez|2002|p=70}} when for several months he ravaged the plains of Barcelona and parts of [[Tarragona]], conquered by the Barcelona counts some decades earlier.{{Sfn|Bramon|1994|p=125}} In an almost three-month-long campaign,{{Sfn|Castellanos Gómez|2002|p=89}} he captured the city with the help of the fleet, imprisoned [[List of Viscounts of Barcelona|Viscount]] Udalard I and Archdeacon Arnulf and sacked the monasteries of [[Monastery of Sant Cugat|Sant Cugat del Vallés]] and [[Sant Pere de les Puelles]].{{Sfn|Castellanos Gómez|2002|p=90}}
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