de GALICIA Gonzalo Menéndez

0936 - 0985  (~ 49 years)

• Name	de GALICIA Gonzalo Menéndez
  Birth	0936	Galicia, España
  Gender	Male
  Death	0985	Galicia, España
  Notes	Gonzalo Menéndez (or Gonçalo Mendes) (fl. 950–997) was a Count of Portugal in the Kingdom of León. He regularly carries the title count (comes), the highest in the kingdom, in surviving documents. He may have used the title magnus dux portucalensium ("great duke of the Portuguese"). His name in contemporary records is usually spelled Gundisaluus Menendiz. Gonzalo was a son of count Hermenegildo González and Mumadona Dias, and named for his grandfather, count Gonzalo Betótez. His father was dead by 950, when his widow distributed some of his lands. In the pertinent document Gonzalo is mentioned for the first time (24 July 950). ⁞ Sometime before 964, Gonzalo married Ilduara (Ildonza) Peláez, his first cousin, the daughter of his father's brother, Pelayo González, Count of Deza, by the latter's wife, Hermesenda Gutiérrez, sister of Saint Rudesind. She is first mentioned, though not as his wife, in 961. She was dead by 983, for in that year he appears married to a Hermesinda (Ermesenda). She was still living in 1008. All of Gonzalo's six children came by his first wife. His eldest sons, Ramiro (living 986) and Rosendo (living 1014), played little part in politics compared to his third son, the aforementioned Menendo. Besides these he had a younger son, Diego, and two daughters: Toda, who married the alférez Rodrigo Ordóñez, and Mumadona (Muniadomna), who was dead by 1013. See complete record at Wikipedia: Gonzalo_Menéndez, accessed 15 Feb 2015. conde de Galicia 930-997 Name Gonzalo Menéndez, conde de GALICIA Born Abt 941 Gender Male Died Abt 985 Person ID I4665 Last Modified 6 Sep 2012 Father Hermenegildo GONZÁLEZ, b. Abt 900, d. Yes, date unknown Mother Muniadomna DíAZ, b. Abt 925, d. Yes, date unknown Notes ALVAREZ PALENZUELA, V.A. (1995), La Nobleza del Reino de León en la Alta Edad Media, en El Reino de León en la Alta Edad Media VII, pp. 149-329, León, Centro de Estudios e Investigación San Isidoro, p. 305. Family ID F2276 Family Ilduara PELÁEZ, b. Abt 941, d. Bef 985 (Age ~ 43 years) Children + 1. Melendo González, conde de GALICIA, b. Abt 965, d. Yes, date unknown Family ID F2274 Tabla de parentescos de don Fernando de Castilla, accessed 18 Dec 2014.
  Person ID	I59893	Freeman-Smith
  Last Modified	27 Jan 2026

  
  

  Father	GONZÁLEZ Hermenegildo,   b. Abt 0900, Galicia, España d. 0943, Spain (Age 43 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	DÍAZ Muniadomna,   b. Abt 0905, Spain d. Abt 0968, Guimaraes, Portugal (Age 63 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F26591	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	GALICIA Ilduara Pelèz,   b. Spain d. Bef 0983, Spain
  Marriage	Galicia, España
  Children	1. GONZÁLEZ Menendo,   b. Abt 0965, Reino de Galicia d. 11 Nov 1008, Reino de Galicia (Age 43 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F26590	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Jan 2026