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From: "Todd A. Farmerie" < >
Subject: Vajay charts: Early Castile
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 22:53:48 -0600


Several times I have mentioned the charts which appeared in:

Vajay, Szabolcs de. Structures de Prouvoir et Reseaux de Familles
du VIIIe au XIIe Siecles. Genealogica & Heraldica: Actas de 17o
Congresso das Ciencias Genealogica e Heraldica. 275-315 (1986).

Having now located the misplaced chart of Early Castile, I can
provide a brief summary of what it says, and what it doesn't say.


The Origin of Sovereign Castile, (senior line)

1. Munio "Belchítez",

2. Nuño Múñez "Racura", Judge of Castille

3. Munio Núñez "of Brañosera" 924-842 (sic), _tenens_ in Liebana,
Judge of Castile
a. Nuño Múñoz "of Castrogeriz"
b. Diego Múñoz, (see below)
c. Gutina, heiress of the "salines comtales", m. Fernan
Gonzalez (see second family)

4. Nuño Múñoz "of Castrogeriz", 882-884
a. Munio Núñez "of Roa"
b. Muniadomna, m.1 Garcia I, King of Galicia, 910, +914, m.2
Fernan Ansurez, Count of Castile, 916-929

5. Munio Núñez "de Roa", 899-915, Count of Castile m. NN. dau. of
Gutierre and Elvira
a. Diego Múñoz
b. Hermengildo Múñoz, 936 (from whom come the Banu Mendez)
c. Mirel Múñoz, 936 (from whom come the Banu Mirel)

6. Diego Múñoz, 936-961, m. Tigridia Nuñez (see second family)
a. Gomez Díaz, 940-986, comte a Saldaña m. Muniadomna
Rernández (sic) (from whome come the Banu Gómez,
Saldaña and Ansúrez)


(junior line)

4. Diego Múñoz, son of Munio Nuñez "de Brañosera"
a. Flain Diaz le Chauve

5. Flain Diaz le Chauve "Laín Calvo" Judge of Castile m. Flamula
a. Munio Flaínez, 928-962, m. Froilueba Bermúdez (from whom
come the Flaginez and Cifuentes)
b. Fernando Flaínez

6. Fernando Flaínez, 953-995, Count in Salamanca, m. Gunteroda
a. Flain Fernández, 994-1007, m. Tigridia Díaz (from whom
come the Diaz de Vivar - "el Cid")


(second family)

A. Gonzalo 865 in La Bureba
a. Fernan González

B. Fernan González the Black, 866, "of Castrosierro" m. Gutina
Nuñez (see above), heiress of the "salinas comtal"
a. Gonzalo Fernández
b. Nuño Fernández "of Amaya", Count of Castile, 921-927
i. Tigridia Nuñez, m. Diego Muñoz (see above)
ii. Fernando Nuñez 968, "filius comitis"

C. Gonzalo Fernández, +932, Count in Burgos, Count of Castile,
910-916, m. Muniadomna Ramirez, "Countess", daughter of Ramiro of
Asturias and of Urraca bint Qasi
a. Fermán (sic) González +970, Count of Castile 932, first
Sovereign Count, m.1 Sancha of Navarre, dau. King
Sancho I Garces and widow of Ordoño II (sic) of
Leon, m.2 Urraca, dau. Garcia III Sanchez of
Navarre (remarried to William Sanchez, Duke of
Gascony). (from whom comes the later Counts)
b. Ramiro González, 929-933


Of this material he credits the work of Justo Pérez de Urbel,
complemented by the recent research of Jaime de Salazar Acha and
Dr. David E. Masnata, notably regarding the rectification of the
paternal lineage of the Sovereign Counts.

(Before everyone gets all excited about the muslim connection,
Dr. Salazar Acha has since determined that for chronological
reasons, Muniadomna could not possibly be daughter of Urraca bint
Qasi.)

So where does it all come from? Unfortunately, there is little
discussion, and what there is mostly involves the ramifications
of the connections, and not the basis for them. Still some
details are given and some guesses can be made.

The first line, of alternating Nuño and Munio, has long been
known, although the confusion of the names led to all being given
as Nuño Nuñez. The connection of Diego and Hermengildo (along
with another brother Osorio Muñoz) and the identification of
their mother as a sister of Hermengildo and Osorio Gutierrez
comes from:

Rodriquez Marquina, Javier. Las Salinas de Castilla en el Siglo
X, y la Genealogia de las Familias Condales. in Homenaje a Fray
Justo Perez de Urbel, OSB., 143-51 (1976).

while Mirel as brother of Hermengildo has appeared several places.

The descent of El Cid from Lain Calvo is a traditional pedigree.
The connection of the Flaginez lineage to that line, I have not
seen elsewhere, and cannot guess (nor is any hint given). The
descent of Lain Calvo from Muñio is again a novelty to me, and is
not explained.

As to the paternal line of the sovereign Counts, the "Fernando
Nuñez" (sic) who appears in most sources is a genealogical
construct, hypothesized to fall between Gonzalo Fernandez and
Nuño Nuñez (sic). No such man is found in the contemporary
record. There is, however, a Fernan(do) Gonzalez in the right
general area and time. He was known to the earlier authors, but
ignored as a connection to the Nuñez/Muñoz had to be explained.
Vajay reports that Fernan Gonzalez confirmed the grant dealing
with the salinas of Añeana made by his grandmother Gutina. The
share of the salinas suggests a connection to the Nuñez/Muñoz,
whose descendant Rodrigo Ermengildez held a portion (he was son
of Hermengildo Muñoz). Thus the simple conclusion is that it was
Gutina who was daughter of this family, and not her husband
(whose placement there requires invention of an undocumented
individual).

Finally, the placement of Tigridia as daughter of Count Nuño
Gonzalez is not explained, and I have not seen it elsewhere.

taf


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