Also known as Mendo Gonçalves.
Count
Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: 8 October 1008.
Place of Death: Avenoso (Portugal).
The date and place are given by Martínez Martínez. Salazar y Acha (p. 89) gives 6 October.
Relationships
Father: Gonzalo Menéndez, count.
This relationship is given by Portelo and Pallarés, by Martínez Martínez, and by Salazar y Acha (p. 89).
Mother: Ilduara Peláez.
This relationship is given by Portelo and Pallarés, and by Salazar y Acha (p. 89).
Spouse: Toda.
This relationship is given by Portelo and Pallarés, and by Salazar y Acha (p. 89).
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Muniadomna (born about 972).
Gonzalo, count (born about 974).
Munio (born about 974).
Fruela, count (born about 976 - after 25 August 1032).
Ramiro (born about 978 - died after 14 August 1014), count, married Toda Vélaz.
Egas (born about 980).
Aldonza (born about 984).
Ilduara married count Nuño Aloítez.
Pelayo, count (born about 990).
Elvira (born about 994 - died 2 December 1022) married Alfonso V, king of León.
References
Martínez Martínez, Martín. "González, Menendo" in Diccionario Biográfico electrónico (Real Academia de la Historia).
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. El Poder del Linaje: La alta nobleza de Castilla y León en la Edad Media. (Boletín Oficial del Estado Real Academia de la Historia, Madrid, 2024).