Gonzalo Núñez de Lara

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Gonzalo Núñez de Lara († after 1105) was a Castilian nobleman and ancestor of the House of Lara .

According to his patronymic , Gonzalo was the son of a Nuño. Assumptions that he was descended from the old count family of Castile were already put forward in the 17th century by Luis de Salazar y Castro in his genealogical work on the Lara house, although no written evidence exists for this. Gonzalo was married to a woman named Goto, with whom he had several children, including two sons who had historically emerged:

Gonzalo was one of the closest followers of King Alfonso VI. of León-Castile (1065–1109) under which he had the temporary rule (tenente) over the Alfoz de Lara around today's Lara de los Infantes ( province of Burgos ) after whom his family was named. Probably by order of Alfonso VI. Gonzalo had commanded an army together with García Ordoñez de Nájera in 1096 to support the Moorish king of Saragossa in the fight against King Peter I of Aragon . The Taifa Kingdom of Saragossa was a tribute-paying vassal to the King of León-Castile and therefore worthy of protection, so that an attack on it consequently also an attack on the sphere of power of Alfonso VI. depicted. The united Moorish-Castilian army suffered a heavy defeat in the battle of Alcoraz on November 18, 1096.

The last written note on Gonzalo Núñez de Lara is dated December 15, 1105 in a document from the Abbey of San Salvador de Oña . The date of his death is unknown.

literature

  • Antonio Ubieto Arteta: Historia de Aragón, Volume 1. Saragossa, 1981.
  • Bernard F. Reilly: The Kingdom of León-Castilla under King Alfonso VI 1065-1109. Princeton University Press, 1988 ( online ).
  • Simon R. Doubleday: The Lara Family: Crown and Nobility in Medieval Spain. Harvard University Press, 2001.

annotation

  1. ↑ See Ubieto Arteta (1981), pp. 118-128 and Reilly (1988), §14, p. 283.
  2. ↑ See Doubleday (2001), p. 140.

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personal data
SURNAME Gonzalo Núñez de Lara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish nobleman
DATE OF BIRTH 11th century
DATE OF DEATH after 1105