Gómez González († 1111)

The grave of Gómez González and his wife Urraca in San Salvador de Oña

Gómez González († October 26, 1111 at Sepúlveda ) was a Castilian nobleman and lover of Queen Urraca of León-Castile .

Gómez was a son of Gonzalo Salvadórez and his second wife Sancha. The father was murdered on January 6, 1083 as a royal negotiator by the Moorish castellan of Rueda. His family is occasionally called "de Lara" because they probably came from the old Count's House of Castile and were largely linked to the House of Lara . He was married to a noblewoman named Urraca with whom he had at least four children; Rodrigo († 1146), Diego, Estefanía and Sancha.

Gómez was already a follower of King Alfonso VI. from León-Castile and appeared for the first time in 1084 as a documentary witness in the office of standard-bearer ( alférez ) , which he held until 1099. On May 6, 1107 he was first attested with the title of Count . Apparently shortly after the death of Raymond of Burgundy in 1107, Gómez became a lover of Infanta Urraca , who was proclaimed heir to the throne of her father only a year later. According to the later written chronicle of Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada , the Castilian nobility pushed for a marriage of the couple to the still of Alfonso VI. arranged to prevent his daughter's marriage to King Alfonso I of Aragon . However, there is no contemporary evidence of this request.

On July 22, 1109, Gómez was one of the witnesses of the first document issued by Queen Urraca, which he signed as "Count of the Castilians" (Castellanorum comes) , which demonstrates his prominent position towards the Castilian nobility, which resulted from his relationship with the Queen. His relationship with the queen had contributed to the quickly occurring dispute between her and her second husband Alfons I of Aragón, which was eventually carried out militarily. Gómez was appointed by the queen to be their chief military leader, but on October 26, 1111 he was defeated and killed by the king of Aragón and his allied Henry of Burgundy in the battle of Candespina near Sepúlveda . He was buried in the Abbey of San Salvador de Oña .

literature

Bernard F. Reilly: The Kingdom of León-Castilla under Queen Urraca. 1109-1126. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1982, ISBN 0-691-05274-3 ( online ).
Bernard F. Reilly: The Kingdom of León-Castilla under King Alfonso VI 1065-1109. Princeton University Press, 1988 ( online ).

Remarks

↑ Historia Roderici didaci campidocti, ed. by Manuel Risco in: La Castilla: y el mas famoso castellano. Discurso sobre el sitio, nombre, extension, gobierno, y condado de la antigua Castilla. Historia del célebre castellano Rodrigo Diaz, llamado vulgarmente el Cid Campeador. (1792), Apendices VI, p. XXII. Crónica Najerense, ed. by Antonio Ubieto Arteta (1966), p. 117. Indice de los documentos del monasterio de Sahagún, ed. by Vincente Vignau y Ballester (1874), p. 270. See Reilly (1988), § 9, p. 165.
↑ Document of the Abbey of Sahagún dated September 14, 1084, cf. Colección diplomatica del Monasterio de Sahagún, Vol. 3, ed. by Marta Herrero de la Fuente in: Fuentes y Estudios de Historia Leonesa, Vol. 37 (1988), No. 816, p. 113. See Reilly (1988), p. 275.
↑ Documentacíon de la catedral de Burgos (804-1183), ed. by José Manuel Garrido Garrido (1983), No. 82, pp. 154-155.
↑ Jéronimo Zurita , Anales de la corona de Aragón, ed. by Ángel Canellas López (1967), Vol. 1, Lib. 1, § 37.
↑ Colección documental del Archivo de la Catedral de Léon (775-1230), Vol. 5, ed. by José María Fernández Catón in: Fuentes y Estudios de Historia Leonesa, Vol. 46 (1990), No. 1327, p. 3.
↑ Annales Complutenses, ed. by Enríque Flórez in: España Sagrada. Vol. 23 (1767), p. 314. Annales Compostellani, ed. by Enríque Flórez in: España Sagrada. Vol. 23 (1767), p. 321. See Reilly (1982), § 10, p. 281. Jéronimo Zurita, Anales de la corona de Aragón, ed. by Ángel Canellas López (1967), Vol. 1, Lib. 1, § 38.

personal data
SURNAME	Gomez González
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Castilian nobleman and lover of Queen Urraca of León-Castile
DATE OF BIRTH	11th century
DATE OF DEATH	October 26, 1111
Place of death	at Sepúlveda

[1] Historia Roderici didaci campidocti, ed. by Manuel Risco in: La Castilla: y el mas famoso castellano. Discurso sobre el sitio, nombre, extension, gobierno, y condado de la antigua Castilla. Historia del célebre castellano Rodrigo Diaz, llamado vulgarmente el Cid Campeador. (1792), Apendices VI, p. XXII. Crónica Najerense, ed. by Antonio Ubieto Arteta (1966), p. 117. Indice de los documentos del monasterio de Sahagún, ed. by Vincente Vignau y Ballester (1874), p. 270. See Reilly (1988), § 9, p. 165.

[2] Document of the Abbey of Sahagún dated September 14, 1084, cf. Colección diplomatica del Monasterio de Sahagún, Vol. 3, ed. by Marta Herrero de la Fuente in: Fuentes y Estudios de Historia Leonesa, Vol. 37 (1988), No. 816, p. 113. See Reilly (1988), p. 275.

[3] Documentacíon de la catedral de Burgos (804-1183), ed. by José Manuel Garrido Garrido (1983), No. 82, pp. 154-155.

[4] Jéronimo Zurita , Anales de la corona de Aragón, ed. by Ángel Canellas López (1967), Vol. 1, Lib. 1, § 37.

[5] Colección documental del Archivo de la Catedral de Léon (775-1230), Vol. 5, ed. by José María Fernández Catón in: Fuentes y Estudios de Historia Leonesa, Vol. 46 (1990), No. 1327, p. 3.

[6] Annales Complutenses, ed. by Enríque Flórez in: España Sagrada. Vol. 23 (1767), p. 314. Annales Compostellani, ed. by Enríque Flórez in: España Sagrada. Vol. 23 (1767), p. 321. See Reilly (1982), § 10, p. 281. Jéronimo Zurita, Anales de la corona de Aragón, ed. by Ángel Canellas López (1967), Vol. 1, Lib. 1, § 38.