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From: "Todd A. Farmerie" < >
Subject: Sancha (Flainez/Fruelaz/Cifuentes)
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 02:11:11 GMT
Having expressed my concerns regarding the connection of Ramirez de Guzman
to the elder line of Fruelaz de Cifuentes, I went back to my sources and
discovered evidence addressing my concerns. There is good news and bad
news, which will come out as I present the following families. I may be
jumping the gun here, since I have a bunch of additional references on
order, but I am trying to present things in some sort of order, and dont
want to hold up the rest. You can expect corrections to follow.
Two of the families which appeared in the Ahnentafeln of Sancha appear to
have a common origin in the Flainez (Lainez/Flaginez) family of Leon.
Traditional accounts of this family begin with the following individuals,
for whom there is no contemporary documentation (hence are probably
invented, although the names suggest a Castilian origin).
Purcello
Flain Purcelliz
Diego Flainez
Flain Diaz
. . . . . . followed by the first historical member of the family:
Munio Flainez (Lainez) d.962. m. c. 947 Froileoba Vermudez, daughter of
Vermudo Nunez, and aunt of the queen of Garcia Sanchez of Navarre.
Flain Munez (Nunez) fl. 975-998 m1. Justa Fernandez, his first cousin,
daughter of Fernando Vermudez and Elvira Diaz de Saldana, and sister of
Garcia's queen. He m2. Justa Pepici (presumably Pepiz). By the second he
had:
Pedro Flainez fl 1000-1056
Diego Perez b.1015, d.c.1069. m. 1056 Maria Fruelaz, daughter of count
Fruela Munoz (I would present his line but seem to have misplaced that
reference)
Fruela Diaz fl. 1068-1118. m. 1088 Estefania Sanchez or Ramirez. There is
some debate as to the father of this woman, and I have addressed it briefly
before. She was daughter of either Ramiro Garces, Infante de Navarre, or
of his illegitimate brother Sancho Garces. Ramiro m. Teresa Gonzalez,
daughter of Gonzalo Salvadorez de Lara, and I favor the identification of
him as her father for two reasons, first, her name Estefania suggests that
she was daughter of a legitimate son of Garcia Sanchez de Navarre and
Estefania de Foix, rather than a bastard, and second, following the murder
of Sancho Garcia, King of Navarre by his brother Ramon, both the country
and the royal family were partitioned. Ramiro fell to the King of Leon,
while Sancho was taken on by the King of Navarre. As such, the children of
Ramiro are more likely to be married within Leon than those of Sancho.
(Note it was Sancho whose son Ramiro de Monzon married the daughter of El
Cid, and was father fo Garcia Ramirez, King of Navarre)
Fruela Ramirez fl. 1162-1198. m. Urraca Gonzalez. His sister married
tradition, which may be right, since that name was given to her oldest
son). A funeral monument records her as being related to the French
royalty, while another source names her as daughter of the Counts of
Armanac m.2 Sancha. m.3 Eilo. By Ines he had:
Fruela Ramirez fl. 1162-1198. m. Urraca Gonzalez. His sister married
Ponce de Minerva (who we may run into later).
Ramiro Fruelaz, m.1 _______, m.2 1222, Aldonza Gonzalez Giron, daughter of
Gonzalo Ruiz Giron. She could not have been mother of the next generation:
Diego Ramirez Fruelaz, d. bef. 1230, m. Aldonza Alfonso, daughter of
Alfonso IX by Aldonza Martinez de Silva, who was married to Diego's uncle
Diego Fruelaz. Aldonza m.2 1230 Pedro Ponce de Cabrera.
Ramiro Diaz Fruelaz de Cifuentes, fl. 1270-1280, Senor de Aviados, said to
have m. Teresa de Lara, not otherwise identified, but probably sister of
Rodrigo Alvarez de Lara, who married Ramiro's sister. Among the Gonzalez
de Lara clan, the name Alvaro appears in the person of Alvaro Nunez de
Lara, son of Nuno Perez de Lara, but he is said traditionally to have died
without issue, and hence Rodrigo Alvarez de Lara may descend instead
(through at least two intervening generatons) from Alvaro Salvadorez de
Lara, brother of Gonzalo named above.
Maria Ramirez Fruelaz de Cifuentes, m. Juan Perez de Guzman. Her son Juan
Ramirez de Guzman was Senor de Aviados, confirming that the descent of the
family is from the Ramiro Diez Fruelaz named above.
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The Osorio family is traditionally traced from a Martin Osorio, son of
Osorio Gutierres `El Sante' (who was living in the mid 900s), and father of
Rodrigo Martinez (who died in battle 1138). This is chronologically
impossible, and was probably invented to show descent of the Osorios from
the earlier family known to use that name. A recent work suggests a
different descent:
Flain Munez, named above, by his first wife, Justa Fernandez, had:
Fernando Flainez fl. 999-1049, m. Elvira Nunez, daughter of Nuno Ermeildez.
While I have not identified this individual, he was likely related to the
Osorio Gurierrez named above, whose great uncle was Hermengildo (Ermildo)
Gutierrez, and whose nephew, Ermengildo Rodriguez was ancestor to the
Armildez/Armilliz family of Toledo, to which Orrabonna Gutierrez, wife of
Gomez Perez de Toledo may have belonged. This represents the route whereby
the name Osorio came into the family.
Flain Fernandez, fl. 1020-1078, m. Onega. A younger son of this couple
was:
Martin Flainez, Count of Aguilar, who was killed at Ucles 1072. He married
Sancha Fernandez (Note I am still tracking down a reference that should
help identify her.) In addition to his oldest son Rodrigo Martinez, he
had:
Osorio Martinez, Senor de Villalobos, fl 1139-1158. m. Teresa de Castro,
daughter of Fernan Garcia and his wife Estefania.
Rodrigo Osorio, d.v.p. b. 1140.
Rodrigo Rodrigez Osorio, said to have married Mayor Nunez, daughter of Nuno
Alvarez de Asturias, a family traditionally traces to the brother-in-law of
El Cid. The early generations of this family are in need of work, so I
will not add to the confusion.
Rodrigo Rodriguez Osorio, Merino Mayor de Leon, 1273 (Note I am a litte
concerned when a pedigree has so many Rodrigos in a row that are all
difficult to date. There may be some genealogical skullduggery here.)
Alvaro Rodriguez Osorio, said to have m. Elvira Nunez, daughter of Nuno,
Bishop of Astorga.
Elvira Alvarez, m. Garcia Gomez Carrillo.
I still have left dangling the de Laras, Fruela Munoz, and Fernando
Vermudez. The former two I plan to get to later, while the latter, being a
royal ancestor, I will address much later, once we get all of these
middling nobles taken care of.
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Ref.
Francisco de Cadenas Allende, `Los Flaginez. Una familia leonesa de hace
mil anos.' _Estudios genealogios heraldicos y nobilarios en honor Vicente
Cadenas y Vicent_ 1978, vol. i, pp.177-211.
Salvador de Moxa, `De la nobleza vieja a la nobleza nueva.' _Estudios
Sobre la Sociedad Castellana en la Baja Edad Media_, Cuadernos de Historia
Vol. iii. Madrid, 1969.
Simon Barton, `Two Catalan Magnates in the courts of the Kings of
Leon-Castile.' _Journal of Medieval History_ 18:233-266. 1992.
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Todd
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