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From: Nathaniel Taylor< >
Subject: Re: de LARA Ancestry
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 21:44:34 -0500


Just to add to Todd's excellent Lara posting, and to return to the
tlsmith's original question, which was:

>( ) Can a valid descent be established for Gonsalo
>Ruiz GIRON who had daus (1) Aldonza Gonsalez and Maria Gonsalez GIRON. If
>so, who is the earliest de LARA ancestor?

This implies credence in the Lara-Giron marriage in Turton, and in Salazar
y Castro, which has recently been proven false. Sancha Rodriguez, wife of
Gonzalo Ruiz Giron, was a daughter of Rodrigo Fernandez de Torono and not
a Lara at all: this branch of the Laras, in descent from Rodrigo Gonzalez
de Lara, are largely an invention of Salazar y Castro. See Jaime de
Salazar Acha, "Los descendientes del conde Ero Fernandez," in _Galicia en
la edad media: actas del coloquio de 13-17 julio 1987_ (Madrid, 1990), pp.
67-86 (especially p. 81 and n. 88), based on an early thirteenth-century
genealogy prepared by the monks of Santa Maria de Ferreira de Pallares,
recording the progeny of their founders. This was noted in Todd
Farmerie's and my recent article on the ancestry of Sancha de Ayala,
published in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register in
January of this year.

However, the daughters of Pedro the Cruel, Constance and Isabel, who
married John of Gaunt and Edmund of Langley respectively, do share at
least one descent from the Giron family, as shown in Turton, but not all
the descents.

Nat Taylor

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