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From: "Todd A. Farmerie" < >
Subject: Re: Early Counts of Castile
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 09:52:32 -0500
Counts of Castile (all dates approximate):
1. Rodrigo, first Count 852-873, was called "brother" of Ramiro I, King
of Leon. The meaning of this was probably more like kinsman, and
numerous explanations for this relationship have been proposed,
including that he was actually the brother, that he was brother of
Ramiro's second wife Paterna, who is known to have been Castilian, or
that Rodrigo married Ramiro's daughter.
2. Diego Rodriguez Porcelos, Count 873-885, son of Rodrigo.
(from 885-897, only two Castilian charters survive, and neither names a
Count)
3. Munio Nuñez de Roa (de Castrogeriz), Count 897-909 (?915). (He is
now thought to have been father of Diego Muñoz, Count of Saldaña,
founder of the Banu Gomez. Since the latter was in all probability
brother of the Counts Osorio Muñoz and Ermegildo Muñoz, Munio's wife was
probably a kinswoman of counts Osorio and Hermengildo Gutierrez.)
(Note from this time, the succession was chaotic, in part due to similar
confusion among the overlord Kings of Leon. In most cases, people are
name only as Count, and not Count of Castile, and the durations over
which they are called Count overlap so it is impossible to determine the
exact succession, and duration of rule over the County.
4. Gonzalo Fernandez, Count 912-915. He is usually said to be son of a
hypothetical Fernando Nuñez, brother of Munio Nuñez, to account for some
of the property of that family coming to this. However it has been
recently discovered that Gonzalo's mother Gutina was Nuñez, so it was
she who was probably Munio's sibling. Gonzalo's father was probably the
Count Fernando Gonzalez living a generation before, who had been
discarded as his father in favor of the hypothetical Fernando Nuñez.
Gonzalo's wife Muniadomna is often called daughter of Munio Nuñez, but
Perez de Urbel demonstrated that she was Muniadomna Ramirez,
granddaughter of Alfonso III of Leon.
5. Fernan Ansurez, Count 916-929. He married Muniadomna Nuñez, who was
probably sister of Munio Nuñez, and widow of Garcia I King of Galicia
(the King's widow is usually placed as daughter of Nuño Fernandez,
below, but the chronology seems to suggest she was a generation older).
6. Fernando Diaz, Count 917-23. He was presumably son of Diego Porcelos.
7. Nuño Fernandez, Count 921-927. He was presumably brother of Gonzalo
Fernandez, and father of the Fernando Nuñez, "filius comitis". It has
also been recently suggested that Tigrida, wife of Diego Muñoz, Count of
Saldaña was his daughter.
8. Fernando Gonzalez, Count from 932. Son of Gonzalo Fernandez, he
would become the first autonomous count.
ta
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