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Bermudo Ordoñez de Leon El Gotoso II


Preferred Parents:
Father: Ordoño III of León, b. 926 in Zamora, Castilla y León, España   d. JUL 956 in Zamora, Zamora, Zamora, Castilla y León, España
Mother: Aragonta Peláez, b. um 0925 in Galicia,Leão   d. AFT 973

Family 2: Velasquita Ramírez,    b. 963 in España    d. 1035 in España
  1. Da. Cristina Bermúdez de León, b. 982 in Cornellana, Salas, Asturias, España     d. 1050 in Cornellana, Salas, Asturias, Spain
Family 3: Elvira Garces de Castilla reina consorte de León,    b. 965 in Castile and León, Spain    d. DEC 1017 in León, Castilla y León, Spain
  1. Alfonso V de León "El Noble", b. 994 in León, León, Castilla y León, Spain     d. 7 AUG 1027 in Viseu, Viseu, Portugal
Sources:
  1. Title: Legacy NFS Source: II King of Asturias Galicia & Leon Bermudo -
    Author: Mosely, Editor-in-Chief, Charles , Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106thEd, Charles Mosely, Editor-in-Chief, Date: 1999;, Page number: 1226
    Note: Mosely, Editor-in-Chief, Charles . Burke's Peerage & Baronetage,106th Ed.. : , 1999.
    Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:3246398932
  2. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Bermudo II Rei de Leao - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Bermudo II Rei de Leao
    Note: Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Bermudo II Rei de Leao. Individual or family possessions: male Individual or family possessions: death: ; León, Castilla y León, Spain Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Bermudo II Rei de Leao Individual or family possessions: male Individual or family possessions: death: ; León, Castilla y León, Spain
    Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:3244685517
  3. Title: https://pantxike.wordpress.com/2013/08/14/donajuandi/
    Publication: Name: https://pantxike.wordpress.com/2013/08/14/donajuandi/;
  4. Title: Bermudo II de Leon, "Find A Grave Index"
    Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVLW-SG7C : 25 May 2022), El Gotoso, ; Burial, León, Provincia de León, Castilla y León, Spain, Basilica Of San Isidoro; citing record ID 88412114, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
    Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVLW-SG7C;
  5. Title: Nobiliário de Famílias de Portugal - Tomo X - Cunhas - Página 143
    Publication: Name: https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/117306838;
  6. Title: https://www.geni.com/people/Rey-de-León-998-1028-Rey-de-Galicia
  7. Title: Legacy NFS Source: II King of Asturias Galicia & Leon Bermudo - birth:
    Author: Stirnet.com, Peter Barns-Graham, Chairman, Name: http://www.stirnet.com;, Page number: Iberia01
    Note: birth: Peter Barns-Graham, Chairman, Stirnet.com (http://www.stirnet.com). Peter Barns-Graham, Chairman, Stirnet.com (http://www.stirnet.com).
    Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:3246398939
  8. Title: Genealogias da Ilha Terceira. v 9. Tit. Vasconcelos
    Publication: Name: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DrBr5RE6QyAxFe-0wmkpuZu3_wl9F6In/view?usp=sharing;
    Note: Este Ramo leva à nobreza
  9. Title: World Family Tree, Vol. 2
    Author: Genealogy.com, World Family Tree, Vol. 2, Tree #4056.
  10. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Bermudo II ; ( Rei ; de leao Espanha ) - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Bermudo II ; ( Rei ; de leao Espanha )
    Note: Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Bermudo II ; ( Rei ; de leao Espanha ) Individual or family possessions: male Individual or family possessions: birth: ; León, Castilla y León, Spain Individual or family possessions: death: ; León, Castilla y León, Spain
    Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:3244685517
  11. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Vermundo The DeLeón - birth-name: Vermundo The DeLeón
    Author: Ancestry Family Trees, Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;, Ancestry.com, http://www.Ancestry.com, null, Page number: Ancestry Family Trees
    Note: birth-name: Vermundo The DeLeón This information comes from 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Tree files. This source citation points you to a current version of those files. Note: The owners of these tree files may have removed or changed information since this source citation was created. birth-name: Vermundo The DeLeón This information comes from 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Tree files. This source citation points you to a current version of those files. Note: The owners of these tree files may have removed or changed information since this source citation was created.
    Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:3243992500
  12. Title: World Family Tree, Vol. 18
    Author: Genealogy.com, World Family Tree, Vol. 18, Tree #2151.
  13. Title: Royal Genealogies (Volume II)
    Author: James Anderson, D.D., Royal Genealogies (Volume II), Table 454, Page 703 (lower center).
  14. Title: Wikipedia contributors, 'Bermudo II of León', Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 9 July 2016, 10:21 UTC, [accessed 30 July 2016]
    Author: [1]. José-Luis Martín (1965) 2, 474 n47. [2]. Simon Barton and Richard A. Fletcher (2000) pp. 72–73. [3]. [4]. [5]. [6]. are not used in the text provided for this source. [7]. Manuel Carriedo Tejedo (1981), 21(44), 38-44. [8]. Manuel Rubén García Alvarez (1967), 42, 203-248. [9]. This paternity for Ordoño IV was also favored by Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz (See García Álvarez, "Ordoño IV", who refutes this view, as does Emilio Sáez Sánchez (1947), "Sobre la Filacion de Ordoño IV", Cuadernos de Estudios Gallegos, 2, 363-75). [10]. Justo Pérez de Urbel (1949), 55, 289-307. [11]. Manuel Rubén García Álvarez (1960), Revista de Guimarães 70, 197-230.
    Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bermudo_II_of_Le%C3%B3n&oldid=729029754;
    Note: 1/. Life Summary Table: -- "Bermudo II King of León Reign 984–999 Predecessor Ramiro III Successor Alfonso V King of Galicia Reign 982–999 Predecessor Ramiro III Successor Alfonso V Born c. 953 Died c. 999 Burial Monastery of Carracedo later Basilica of San Isidoro Consort{s} - Velasquita Ramírez - Elvira García Issue - Alfonso V Dynasty Beni Alfons Father Ordoño III of León (?) Mother Urraca Fernández (?) Religion Roman Catholicism 2/. Introduction : -- "Bermudo (or Vermudo) II (c. 953 – September 999), called the Gouty (Spanish: el Gotoso), was first a rival king in Galicia (982–984) and then king of the entire Kingdom of León (984–999). His reign is summed up by Justo Pérez de Urbel's description of him as "the poor king tormented in life by the sword of Almanzor and in death by the vengeful pen of a bishop," Pelagius of Oviedo (died 1153), half of whose Chronicon covers the reign of Bermudo and is highly critical of the king.[1] He accuses Bermudo of imprisoning Bishop Gudesteus of Oviedo in the 990s and blames the attacks of Almanzor on Bermudo's sins.[2]" 3/. Under the heading "Reign" para 1, first and third sentence : -- {his prob. father; and his coronation} "In 982 the Galician nobility proclaimed Bermudo, a son of former king Ordoño (probably Ordoño III), as king in opposition to his cousin Ramiro III." "Bermudo was crowned in the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela on 15 October 982." 4/. Under the heading "Reign" para 3, first sentence : -- {recovery of Zamora} " Bermudo eventually succeeded in recovering Zamora from the Muslims, but did not succeed in expelling them totally until 987." 5/. Under the heading "Reign" para 3, para 1 : -- {demise and burial} "In 999, the gout from which he suffered was aggravated and it became impossible for him to ride a horse. Military leader of Christians of northwestern Spain, he subsequently travelled by litter. Later that same year he died in Villanueva del Bierzo and was buried in the Monastery of Carracedo. Later, his remains were transferred to the Basilica of San Isidoro." 6/. Under the heading "Family - Parentage", para 1 : -- "Both the paternal and maternal parentage of Bermudo II have been subject to scholarly debate. On the paternal side, the primary chronicle sources simply call him son of king Ordoño, without specifying which former king of that name. Traditionally his father has been identified as Ordoño III and the modern consensus agrees with this assignment, but at least one prominent modern Leonese historian, Manuel Carriedo Tejedo, has concluded that he instead was son of Ordoño IV.[7] Carriedo Tejedo further suggests a parentage for Ordoño IV at odds with the almost unanimous consensus,[8] and would make Bermudo a grandson of Galician king Alfonso Fróilaz.[7][9]. Controversy also exists over the identity of his mother. Traditionally he has been viewed as son of Ordoño III's documented wife, Urraca Fernández. However, in a royal charter dated 5 January 999 Bermudo refers to his avo (grandfather, or by extension, ancestor), the count Gonzalo Betótez of Deza. As Bermudo's traditional pedigree would provide no such relationship, Justo Pérez de Urbel suggested that he was instead an illegitimate son of Ordoño III, with the relationship coming through his mother. Based on political considerations and a second ambiguous documented kinship, he provisionally identified the mother as either Aragonta or Guntroda, daughters of Pelayo González, count of Deza, who was son of count Gonzalo.[10] He has been followed in this by several historians, but others find the evidence lacking and retain the traditional view of his mother (even Carriedo Tejedo, who has him born to Urraca by her second husband, Ordoño IV[7]). The identification of Bermudo's first queen, Velasquita Ramírez, as likely grandniece of count Pelayo allows the possibility that Bermudo was referring to count Gonzalo as ancestor of his first wife and not his own blood ancestor.[11]" 7/. Under the heading "Children" : -- "By his first wife, Velasquita Ramírez, Bermudo left a daughter, Cristina, who married Ordoño Ramírez, son of his rival Ramiro III. Vermudo married secondly Elvira García, daughter of the Castilian count García Fernández, with whom he had three children: Alfonso, who succeeded him; Theresa; and Sancha. He also had three bastards: Elvira, Pelayo, and Ordoño, who married Fronilde, daughter of the aforementioned count Pelayo Rodríguez. 8/. Under the heading "References" : -- {[1-11] in-text citations, with notes addended} [1]. José-Luis Martín (1965), "Pelayo Rodríguez, obispo de Santiago (977–985)", Anuario de estudios medievales, 2, 474 n47: el pobre rey atormentado en la vida por la espada de Almanzor y en muerte por la pluma vengadora de un obispo. [2]. Simon Barton and Richard A. Fletcher (2000), The World of El Cid: Chronicles of the Spanish Reconquest (Manchester: Manchester University Press), pp. 72–73. [3]. Emilio Sáez Sánchez (1946), "Notas al episcopologio minduniense del siglo X", Hispania, 6(22), 47–8 n180. [4]. J. M. Ruiz Asencio (1968), "Campañas de Almanzor contra el reino de León (981–986)", Anuario de estudios medievales, 5, 31–64. [5]. Jaime de Salazar y Acha (1989), "El conde Fernando Peláez, un rebelde leonés del siglo XI", Anuario de estudios medievales, 19, 87-97. [6]. Antonio Palomeque Torres (1948), "Episcopologio de la Sede de Oviedo durante el siglo X", Hispania sacra, 1:2, 295. [7]. Manuel Carriedo Tejedo (1981), "La Version de la "Historia Silense" Sobre la Filiacion de Vermudo II", Tierras de León: Revista de la Diputación Provincial, 21(44), 38-44. [8]. Manuel Rubén García Alvarez (1967), "Ordoño IV de León, un Rey impuesto par Castilla", Archívos Leoneses, 42, 203-248. [9]. This paternity for Ordoño IV was also favored by Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz (See García Álvarez, "Ordoño IV", who refutes this view, as does Emilio Sáez Sánchez (1947), "Sobre la Filacion de Ordoño IV", Cuadernos de Estudios Gallegos, 2, 363-75). [10]. Justo Pérez de Urbel (1949), "Los Padres de Vermudo II el Gotoso", Revista de Archivos, Biblotecas y Museos 55, 289-307. [11]. Manuel Rubén García Álvarez (1960), "¿La Reina Velasquita, nieta de Muniadomna Díaz?", Revista de Guimarães 70, 197-230. 9/. Under the heading "Further reading" : -- "- M. Calleja Puerta (1999), "Una generación leonesa del siglo XII: la descendencia de Vermudo II en la obra cronística de Pelayo de Oviedo", La nobleza peninsular en la Edad Media (León)."
    Page: This source provides prob. birth and death dates for Bermudo (or Vermudo) II (c. 953 – Sep 999), the names of his prob. parents and of his first spouse Velasquita Ramírez and his 2nd spouse Elvira García and of his successor Alfonso V of León; and of his other children and some grandchildren.
  15. Title: https://www.geni.com/people/Bermudo-II-el-Gotoso-rey-de-León/600000000011
  16. Title: INDICE https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVLW-SG7C
    Author: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVLW-SG7C
    Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVLW-SG7C;
  17. Title: Bermudo II de León - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
    Author: [object HTMLCollection]
    Publication: Name: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermudo_II_de_Le%C3%B3n;
    Note: Source created by http://RecordSeek.com
    Page: Created by http://RecordSeek.com
  18. Title: Bermudo II of Leon, "Find A Grave Index"
    Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV28-PXPB : 7 August 2020), Bermudo II of Leon, ; Burial, León, Provincia de León, Castilla y León, Spain, León Cathedral; citing record ID 66422201, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
    Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV28-PXPB;
  19. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Dom Bermudo;(Segundo Rei Leao) - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Dom Bermudo;(Segundo Rei Leao)
    Note: Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Dom Bermudo;(Segundo Rei Leao) Individual or family possessions: male Individual or family possessions: death: ; León, Castilla y León, Spain
    Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:3244685517
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