Elvira Menéndez
Events
Date of Birth: about 885.
Place of Birth: unknown.
The date is given by Carriedo Tejedo (DBe). Salazar y Acha (p. 58) gives about 880.
Date of Death: 921.
Place of Death: Zamora.
The date is given by Carriedo Tejedo (DBe). The date and place are given by Salazar y Acha (p. 58).
Relationships
Father: Hermenegildo Gutiérrez.
This relationship is given by Sáez (p. 14), by Salazar y Acha (p. 58), and by Carriedo Tejedo (DBe).
Mother: Ermesinda Gatóniz.
This relationship is given by Sáez (p. 14), by Salazar y Acha (p. 58), and by Carriedo Tejedo (DBe).
Spouse: Ordoño II, king of León.
This relationship is given by Martínez Diez (2007, p. 120), by Salazar y Acha (p. 58), and by Carriedo Tejedo (DBe).
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Sancho (born about 896 - died 929), king in Galicia, married Godo Muñoz.
Alfonso IV “the Monk” (born about 899 - died after 11 April 931), king of León, married Oneca Sánchez de Navarra.
Ramiro II (born about 900 - died March 951), king of León, married (1) Adosinda Gutiérrez; married (2) Urraca Sánchez de Navarra.
Jimena (born about 902 - died 935).
García (born about 903 - died after 21 February 934).
References
Carriendo Tejedo, Manuel. “Nacimiento, matrimonio y muerte de Alfonso III el Magno” in Asturiensia medievalia Volume 7 (1993-1994) pp. 129-145.
Carriedo Tejedo, Manuel. “Elvira Menéndez" in Diccionario Biográfico electrónico (Real Academia de la Historia).
Martínez Díez, Gonzalo. Sancho III el Mayor: rey de Pamplona, Rex Ibericus. (Madrid: 2007).
Sáez, Emilio. “Los ascendientes de San Rosendo, notas para el estudio de monarquía astur-leonesa durante los siglos IX y X” in Hispania (XXX, 1947).
Salazar y Acha, Jaime de. Las dinastías reales de España en la Edad Media. (Real Academia de la Historia, 2021).