Sancho Ordóñez (count)

Sancho Ordóñez (before 1042 [lower-alpha 1]c. 1080), was a count who lived in the 11th-century. His father was Ordoño Bermúdez, an illegitimate son of King Bermudo II of León, and his mother was Fronilde Peláez,[2][3][4] also a member of the high nobility as the daughter of Count Pelayo Rodríguez and his wife Gotina Fernández de Cea, daughter of Count Fernando Bermúdez de Cea and sister of Jimena, the mother of King Sancho Garcés III the Great, and of Justa Fernández, married to Count Flaín Muñoz.

Biographical sketch

He was named count between 1059 and 1061 when he appears with the title in several family transactions and royal charters, such as one dated 1061 at the Monastery of Samos when he confirms as Sanctius proles Ordonii comes (Sancho, son of Ordoño, count).[5] Count Sancho was a member of the Curia regis of his cousins King Fernando I and Sancha of León and in 1059 confirmed a private transaction between these monarchs and Fronilde Ovéquiz.[3][lower-alpha 2] He also appears in charters issued by King Alfonso VI, including one dated 1071 when he confirms as Sancio Ordoniz comes[6] a donation made by the king to Velasco Vela, and in 1073 at the Monastery of Samos when the king named him one of the judges entrusted with settling a dispute between the abbot of the monastery and Ero Peláez. In 1077, Count Sancho donated the properties in Villarín de Campos that he had inherited from his grandfather, count Pelayo Rodríguez, to the Cathedral of León.[6]

Marriage and issue

Before 1082, Count Sancho married Onneca (also appears as Onega) Ovéquiz,[7] daughter of Count Oveco Bermúdez and his wife Elvira Suárez, and sister of counts Bermudo, Vela, and Rodrigo Ovéquiz.[4] The offspring of this marriage were:

Notes

  1. He was already alive in 1042 when his parents, on September 18 of that year, appear with their children, mentioned as Bermudo, Sancho Fernando, and Jimena Ordoñez, making a donation to the Monastery of Santa María that they had founded in León.[1]
  2. Sancho Ordóñez was a first cousin of Queen Sancha, both of them grandchildren of King Bermudo II, and a second cousin of King Fernando I, both being descendants of Urraca Fernández, a daughter of Fernán González, count of Castile.
  3. His siblings Oveco and Jimena appear in the Cathedral of León in 1109 making a donation in memory of their brother Ueila Sanxis.[10]
  4. In 1108, her brother Oveco made a donation to the Monastery of Samos for the soul of his sister domna Fronilli.[11]
  5. On 15 July 1129, Sancho Núñez and his wife, together with his brother Melendo Núñez, sold several properties to the Monastery of Ferreira de Pantón.[14]

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