Gonzalo Téllez

Gonzalo Téllez (* around 870, † around 915) was from about 897 to 915 Count of Lantarón in today's province of Álava and Cerezo in today's province of Burgos ; in a document from 903 he is also referred to as the Count of Castile .

Historical background

In the face of repeated attacks by Muslim armies, the Asturian King Alfonso III reorganized . (848–910) ruled his empire around the year 900 and established several counties, especially in the east, at the head of which he put loyal and capable people - one of them was Gonzalo Téllez, about whose earlier deeds nothing is known. After Abd ar-Rahmans III came to power. as ruler of Al-Andalus in 912, the attacks on the north of the Iberian Peninsula, where several areas had remained Christian, intensified. Especially the Leonese King García I tried to defend himself against the attacks, but died in 914.

biography

The homeland and paternal legacy of Gonzalo Téllez were in the heart of what is now the province of Burgos, in what is now the municipality of Villagonzalo Pedernales . His name is mentioned for the first time in a document dated November 18, 897 - as Count of Lantarón. In 902 he and his wife Flámula made a donation to the monastery of San Pedro de Cardeña . In 903 he was once referred to as the 'Count of Castile'. King García I of León commissioned him and two other counts in 912 with the repopulation ( repoblación ) of the areas up to the Río Duero : Munio Núñez took over the area around Roa , Gonzalo Fernández took care of Burgos , Clunia and San Esteban de Gormaz and Gonzalo Téllez took over Uxama , which later became Burgo de Osma . In the same year he and his wife Flámula appear as a founder or as a witness to the founding of the San Pedro de Arlanza monastery . In October 913, he and Flámula donated lands to the Monasterio San Jorge , about the location of which nothing is known. The last mention of his person comes from a document dated February 25, 915, in which he and his wife made a foundation in favor of the Cardeña monastery near Cótar , a modern suburb of Burgos. He was probably buried there, because his wife, who outlived him by more than ten years, gave the monastery his home town of Pedernales in 929, which has since disappeared.

literature

• Iñaki Martín Viso: Poder político y estructura social en la Castilla altomedieval: el condado de Lantarón (Siglos VIII-XI). In: José Ignacio de la Iglesia Duarte, José Luis Martín Rodríguez (eds.): Los espacios de poder en la España medieval: XII Semana de Estudios Medievales, Nájera, del 30 de julio al 3 de agosto de 2001 , Nájera 2002, ISBN 84-95747-24-3 , pp. 533-552.
• Gonzalo Martínez Díez: El Condado de Castilla (711-1038). La historia frente a la leyenda. Junta de Castilla y León, Valladolid 2004, ISBN 84-9718-275-8 .
• Salustiano Moreta, Salustiano Moreta Velayos: El Monasterio de San Pedro de Cardeña. Historia de un dominio monástico. Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca 1971, OCLC 48277151 .

Web links

• History of the County of Castile 885–910 Quick Facts (Spanish)