Family:
Marriage:
Children:
- Pedro Gonzales, Count Of Lara Death: 1130 in Bayonne
- Rodrigo Gonzalez Of Lara
Bibliography
Sources for birth and parent Information
- father:
- [Ref: TorreSevilla-Quinones ElCid p14]
Sources with Information about marriage to Goto Nunez
- child:
- [Ref: Todd Farmerie SGM 2/18/2005-010813, TorreSevilla-Quinones ElCid
p14]
Research Notes:
Tenente de Lara [Ref: TorreSevilla-Quinones ElCid p14]
Maybe a brief history will help. The traditional descent, including the
connection with the Caliph of Cordoba, is based on a romantic source dealing
with the Infantes de Lara. As the story goes, Gonzalo Gustioz had seven sons
(the infantes) before being captured in battle against the Moors. While
imprisoned at Cordoba, he fell in love with the daughter of the Caliph and had
by her an additional son, Mudarra Gonzalez, who was raised at his
grandfather's court. Meanwhile, on the home front, the evil uncle of the
infantes decided he didn't like them, and offed the lot. Mudarra returned from
Cordoba and exacted revenge on his uncle, obtained the entire inheritance of
his father and was ancestor of the Lara family.
Now there was a Gonzalo Gustioz in Castile at this time. In fact there were
several. Likewise, the uncle Ruy Valasquez (I think it was) existed, but there
is no evidence his sister married Gonzalo Gustioz. The one who cannot be
shown to exist was Mudarra Gonzalez. No one of this name can be found among
the charters of the time, while others are found in posession of the Lara
lands. This led Salazar y Castro, as early as 1696, to reject this account as
being fabulous in nature, and to consider other possibilities. The one which
he selected as most likely was the one which you cite, and which was followed
by Turton and most other authors. This showed the first recognizable member of
the family, Gonzalo Nunez (sic), father of Pedro and Rodrigo Gonzalez and
grandfather of Manrique, was son of Nuno Gonzalez, son of Gonzalo Nunez, son
of Nuno Gonzalez, son of Gonzalo Fernandez, oldest son of Fernan Gonzalez,
Count of Castile. (Moncreiffe tries to recover the best of both worlds, by
lifting Mudarra Gonzalez from the Infantes de Lara tradition, and assigning
him to Nuno Gonzalez, claiming that Mudarra was just a nickname for a
half-breed. One can read between the lines that this would explain why Mudarra
never appears in records. How convenient!) The advantage of this
reconstruction is that the family of Fernan Gonzalez of Castile owned the land
which would become the Lara estates, and thus a continuity of holding. The
problem is that Gonzalo Fernandez, eldest son of Fernan Gonzalez had only one
known child, a son Sancho who died young without issue. It is thus impossible.
For about the past half-century, numerous attempts have been made to
reconstruct the early Lara lineage. Until recently, the solution which seemed
to be in favor was that followed by Carmen Carle, which made Gonzalo Nunez
(father of Pedro and Rodrigo) son of a Nuno Alvarez, who posessed lands in the
general area. This man had a sister married into the Haro family, and was
perhaps (but far from definitely) brother of the Cid's maternal grandfather,
Rodrigo Alvarez (who did have a brother Nuno, but there were at least three
Nuno Alvarez in Castile at the time). Any link of this man to the Counts of
Castile are unknown.
About 10 years ago, another solution appeared, which is based on the
research of Jaime de Salazar Acha (who is clearly one of the best of the best
contemporary spanish genealogists). As it turns out, it is a modification of
Salazar y Castro's 300 year old proposal. Before I describe it though, another
lineage must be brought into the question. This is the other 'branch' of
Lara, that of Gonzalo Salvadorez. An older contemporary of Gonzalo Nunez, he
was the first of his time to appear with the title Count of Lara (the previous
person to clearly ear that title being Fernan Gonzalez, over 100 years
before). He has traditionally been held to be son of Salvador Perez, son of
Pedro Gonzalez, son of Fernan Gonzalez by his second wife, and thus a cousin
of Nuno Gonzalez (a tradition of kinship which preceeds the reconstitution of
these pedigrees). The problem with this is that Pedro Fernandez never existed,
and thus the kinship is doubly lost, with both connections to Castile being
broken. Balparda, in his work on Viscaya, demonstrated that the father of
Gonzalo Salvadorez was a Salvador Gonzalez, who appeared to be a related to a
Munio Gonzalez, Count of Alava. This line was later shown by Canal Sanchez
Pagin to be first of the probable paternal line of Jimena, mistress of Alfonso
VI, through his son Gonzalo Munoz, and his son Munio Gonzalez, Count of
Castile (under Fernando I Sanchez, King of Castile). It is this same line
which has now been tapped as the probable ancestry of the later Laras,
restoring the kinship of the two Lara lines.
There is a problem reconstructing the genealogies of this time
distinguishing between the names Nuno and Munio. While they probably shared
the same origin, by this time, they had diverged into different names (there
are several examples of siblings being called Nuno and Munio). By the 16th
century, the two names had again been merged into one, and historians treated
them as being interchangable. Since most of the surviving charters exist only
as copies from this period, the original distinction was lost until quite
recently, when the volume of original charters grew to the point where it was
clear that they were not interchangable (the same man would appear as either
Munio in every charter, or as Nuno, but would not use both names). A surprise
finding was that while most historians had refered to many of these men as
Nuno or Nunez, most were in fact Munio or Munoz. Thus the Gonzalo Nunez and
Nuno Gonzalez found in the Lara pedigree of Salazar y Castro are now
hypothesized to be Gonzalo Munoz and Munio Gonzalez.
This appeared in a summary of recent (mostly iberian) royal pedigrees
presented by Szabolcs de Vajay, based on the work of Salazar Acha and David
Masnata. It showed Gonzalo Munoz (father of Pedro and Rodrigo) as brother of
the mistress Jimena, children of Munio Gonzalez, Count of Castile, son of
Gonzalo Munoz, Count of Alava, son of Munio Gonzalez (replacing Salazar y
Castro's Gonzalo Nunez, Nuno Gonzalez, Gonzalo Nunez, Nuno Gonzalez). Then it
breaks with Salazar y Castro. Since this Count Munio Gonzalez (and his
hypothesized brother Salvador Gonzalez) could not be son of Gonzalo Fernandez
of Castile, they looked about for another likely candidate. They found one in
Gonzalo Garces, a largely ignored son of Count Garcia Fernandez, and thus
nephew of the earlier Gonzalo Fernandez. Unfortunately, in the form that it
was presented by Vajay, it only references Salazar Acha and Masnata's
unpublished work, and since the logic behind the descent has not been
presented, it cannot be evaluated. (Still, having studied enough of Salazar
Acha's work to gain some insight into his thought process and methodology, I
suspect that he has weighed heavily the tradition of descent from the Counts
of Castile, as well as the descent of Lara and Alava (and perhaps Castile
itself, although it was clearly no longer hereditary after it's merger with
Navarre). Likewise, some charter evidence of Gonzalo Garces must have been
found, but we must await publication to learn the nature of this evidence.)
So, what have we learned here. First of all, even as early as 1696, the
supposed muslim descent of the Lara was rejected by a (the) serious
genealogist (in the most recent study of the question by Menendez Pidal, in
spite of the author's strong bias toward the acceptance of such traditional
sources, the existance of Mudarra Gonzalez and the muslim connection were
likewise rejected). One of the first suggested replacement pedigrees must be
rejected because Gonzalo Fernandez had an only child who d.s.p. There have
been several alternative descents suggested, te most recent tracing through
powerful nobles of the time of Sancho III Garces and Fernando I, to Garcia
Fernandez, Count of Castile. Until the arguments (and supporting documents)
underpinning this latest theory appear, we cannot sufficiently evaluate it, so
the question remains open. [Ref: Todd Farmerie SGM 4/13/1998]
Pedigree of Gonzalo Nunez Of Lara
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Gonzalo
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Fernando Gonzales
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Gonzalo Fernandez Count Of Burgos And Castile
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Nuno Munoz Rasura Judge Of Castile
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Muno Murez De Branosera, Count Of Castile
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Gutina Munoz Of Brancosera
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Argile
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Fernando Gonzalez Count Of Castille
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Ordono I King Of Leon
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Alfonso III El Magno Of Leon
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Nina
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Ramiro Alfonso King Of Asturias
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Garcia Iniguez King At Pamplona
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Ximens
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Urraca
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Muniadona Ramirez Of Asturias
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Garcia Fernandez I Count Of Castile
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Garcia Jimenez Duke Of The Gascons
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Jimeno Garcia
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Garcia Ximino King Of Navarre
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Sancho Loup Duke Of The Gascons
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Guldregut
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(Unk) Galindez
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Sancho Garcia I King Of Navarre
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Loup Centule Duke Of The Gascons
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Dimat Lop Count Of Bigorre
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Dadilda Of Pallars
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Raymond I Count And Marquess Of Toulouse
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Bella Of Toulouse
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Bertha
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Sancha
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Garcia Iniguez King At Pamplona
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Sancho Garcia Of Pamplona
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Urraca
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Aznon Sanchez Lord Of Larron
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Galindo Aznarez Count Of Aragon
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(Unk Dau)
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Guldregut
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Tota Of Larron
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Garcia Iniguez King At Pamplona
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Fortum Garces King Of Navarre
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Urraca
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Iniga
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Garsia Of Pampelune
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Aria
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Aurea
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Gonzalo Garces Of Castile
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Loup Centule Duke Of The Gascons
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Dimat Lop Count Of Bigorre
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Raymond Count Of Pallars
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Raymond I Count And Marquess Of Toulouse
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Bella Of Toulouse
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Bertha
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Bernard Count Of Ribagorza
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Asnar Dato
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Geniguentes
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Raymond II Count Of Ribagorza
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Galindo Aznarez Count Of Aragon
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Angar Golidez II Count Of Aragon
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Guldregut
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Galindo Aznarez Count Of Aragon
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Garcia Iniguez King At Pamplona
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Onnaca
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Urraca
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Tota Of Aragon
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Sancho Sanchez Mitarra II Duke Of Gascony
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Garcia Sanchez Count Of Gascony
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(Unk) Galindez Of Aragon
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Ascibella
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Vulgrin I Count Of Angouleme
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Aminiana
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Rogerlinde Of Toulouse
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Aba Of Ribagorza
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Sancho Sanchez Mirarra I Duke Of Gascony
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Sancho Sanchez Mitarra II Duke Of Gascony
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Garcia Sanchez Count Of Gascony
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Galindo Aznarez Count Of Aragon
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(Unk) Galindez Of Aragon
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Guldregut
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William Count Of Ferenzen
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Ulrich I Count In The Orgengau
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Vulgrin I Count Of Angouleme
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Aminiana
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Bernard Marquis Of Septimania
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Rogerlinde Of Toulouse
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Dhunde Of Gascony
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Garsende Of Fezensac
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Raymond I Count And Marquess Of Toulouse
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Odon Count Of Toulouse
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Bertha
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Raymond II Count Of Toulouse
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Ermengald Count Of Albi
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Garsinde Heiress Of Albi
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Garsenda Of Toulouse
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Pons
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Gunhilde
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Bernard Count Of Auvergne
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(Unk Dau) Of Auvergne
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Lieugardis
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Muno Gonzales
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Fernando
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Munio Fernandez Of Samiedo
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(Unk) Munoz Of Samiedo
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Jimena
Gonzalo Nunez Of Lara
Descendants of Gonzalo Nunez Of Lara