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).