Elvira Menéndez (wife of Alfonso V)

Events

Date of Birth: about 994.

Place of Birth: unknown.

The date is given by Salazar y Acha (p. 67).

Date of Death: 2 December 1022.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Fernández del Pozo and by Salazar y Acha (p. 67).

Relationships

Father: Menendo González, count.

This relationship is given by Portelo and Pallarés, by Salazar y Acha (p. 67), and by Fernández del Pozo.

Mother: Toda.

This relationship is given by Fernández del Pozo, and by Salazar y Acha (p. 67).

Spouse: Alfonso V, king of León.

This relationship is given by Martínez Diez (2005, p. 394; 2007, p. 120), by Salazar y Acha (p. 67), and by Fernández del Pozo.

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Sancha (1013 - 7 November 1067) married Fernando I “el Magno”, king of León.

Vermudo III (1017 or 1018 - 4 September 1037), king of León, married Jimena Sánchez.

References

Fernández del Pozo, José María. "Elvira Menéndez" in Diccionario Biográfico electrónico (Real Academia de la Historia).

Martínez Diez, Gonzalo. El Condado de Castilla (711-1038): la historia frente a la leyenda. (Macial Pons: 2005).

Martínez Díez, Gonzalo. Sancho III el Mayor: rey de Pamplona, Rex Ibericus. (Madrid: 2007).

Portelo Silva, Ermelindo, and María del Carmen Pallarés. “Elementos para el análisis de la aristocracía altomedieval de Galicia: Parentesco y patrimonio” from I Coloquio de Historia Medieval: Galicia en la Edad Media (Santiago de Compostela: July 1987)

Salazar y Acha, Jaime de. Las dinastías reales de España en la Edad Media. (Real Academia de la Historia, 2021).