b. 910
d. 970
Fernán González was the first autonomous count of Castile, son of Gonzalo Fernández de Burgos and Muniadona. Muniadona was so well remembered that the later Counts of Castile would sometimes be recorded by Iberian Muslim scholars as Ibn Māma Duna (descendant of Muniadona).
Fernán González was a colourful character of legendary status in Iberia, and founder of the dynasty that would rule a semi-autonomous Castile, laying the foundations for its status as an independent kingdom. In the year 930, Fernán's name appears with the title of count inside the administrative organization of eastern the Kingdom of León.
He married Sancha Sánchez of Pamplona, the sister of the García Sánchez I of Pamplona. One of the daughters of Sancho I of Pamplona and Toda of Navarre, she had been twice widowed, having first married king Ordoño II of León late in his life as his third wife - two of her sisters, Onneca and Urraca, would marry Sancha's step-sons, Alfonso IV of León and Ramiro II of León. Following Ordoño's death in 924, she had married count Álvaro Herrameliz. Her marriage to Fernán not only allowed him to unite Castile, but reinforced political alliances across the Christian north.
Fernán gathered under his control a strong military force composed of troops from the counties of Burgos, Asturias, Santillana, Lantaron, Álava, Castile, and Lara. His military prowess came to prominence in the Battle of Simancas in 939 and then at Sepulveda, where he wrested the region from the Moors and repopulated it. As his power increased, so did his independence from León.
His life and feats are recorded in an anonymous poem, The Poem of Fernán González, written between 1250 and 1271 and preserved as an incomplete copy from the fifteenth century.
Fernando and Sancth's remains were buried in the monastery of San Pedro de Arlanza and subsequently transferred in 1841 to the church of San Cosme and San Damián de Covarrubias.
d. 970
Fernán González was the first autonomous count of Castile, son of Gonzalo Fernández de Burgos and Muniadona. Muniadona was so well remembered that the later Counts of Castile would sometimes be recorded by Iberian Muslim scholars as Ibn Māma Duna (descendant of Muniadona).
Fernán González was a colourful character of legendary status in Iberia, and founder of the dynasty that would rule a semi-autonomous Castile, laying the foundations for its status as an independent kingdom. In the year 930, Fernán's name appears with the title of count inside the administrative organization of eastern the Kingdom of León.
He married Sancha Sánchez of Pamplona, the sister of the García Sánchez I of Pamplona. One of the daughters of Sancho I of Pamplona and Toda of Navarre, she had been twice widowed, having first married king Ordoño II of León late in his life as his third wife - two of her sisters, Onneca and Urraca, would marry Sancha's step-sons, Alfonso IV of León and Ramiro II of León. Following Ordoño's death in 924, she had married count Álvaro Herrameliz. Her marriage to Fernán not only allowed him to unite Castile, but reinforced political alliances across the Christian north.
Fernán gathered under his control a strong military force composed of troops from the counties of Burgos, Asturias, Santillana, Lantaron, Álava, Castile, and Lara. His military prowess came to prominence in the Battle of Simancas in 939 and then at Sepulveda, where he wrested the region from the Moors and repopulated it. As his power increased, so did his independence from León.
His life and feats are recorded in an anonymous poem, The Poem of Fernán González, written between 1250 and 1271 and preserved as an incomplete copy from the fifteenth century.
Fernando and Sancth's remains were buried in the monastery of San Pedro de Arlanza and subsequently transferred in 1841 to the church of San Cosme and San Damián de Covarrubias.
b. 910
d. 970
Fernán González was the first autonomous count of Castile, son of Gonzalo Fernández de Burgos and Muniadona. Muniadona was so well remembered that the later Counts of Castile would sometimes be recorded by Iberian Muslim scholars as Ibn Māma Duna (descendant of Muniadona).
Fernán González was a colourful character of legendary status in Iberia, and founder of the dynasty that would rule a semi-autonomous Castile, laying the foundations for its status as an independent kingdom. In the year 930, Fernán's name appears with the title of count inside the administrative organization of eastern the Kingdom of León.
He married Sancha Sánchez of Pamplona, the sister of the García Sánchez I of Pamplona. One of the daughters of Sancho I of Pamplona and Toda of Navarre, she had been twice widowed, having first married king Ordoño II of León late in his life as his third wife - two of her sisters, Onneca and Urraca, would marry Sancha's step-sons, Alfonso IV of León and Ramiro II of León. Following Ordoño's death in 924, she had married count Álvaro Herrameliz. Her marriage to Fernán not only allowed him to unite Castile, but reinforced political alliances across the Christian north.
Fernán gathered under his control a strong military force composed of troops from the counties of Burgos, Asturias, Santillana, Lantaron, Álava, Castile, and Lara. His military prowess came to prominence in the Battle of Simancas in 939 and then at Sepulveda, where he wrested the region from the Moors and repopulated it. As his power increased, so did his independence from León.
His life and feats are recorded in an anonymous poem, The Poem of Fernán González, written between 1250 and 1271 and preserved as an incomplete copy from the fifteenth century.
Fernando and Sancth's remains were buried in the monastery of San Pedro de Arlanza and subsequently transferred in 1841 to the church of San Cosme and San Damián de Covarrubias.
d. 970
Fernán González was the first autonomous count of Castile, son of Gonzalo Fernández de Burgos and Muniadona. Muniadona was so well remembered that the later Counts of Castile would sometimes be recorded by Iberian Muslim scholars as Ibn Māma Duna (descendant of Muniadona).
Fernán González was a colourful character of legendary status in Iberia, and founder of the dynasty that would rule a semi-autonomous Castile, laying the foundations for its status as an independent kingdom. In the year 930, Fernán's name appears with the title of count inside the administrative organization of eastern the Kingdom of León.
He married Sancha Sánchez of Pamplona, the sister of the García Sánchez I of Pamplona. One of the daughters of Sancho I of Pamplona and Toda of Navarre, she had been twice widowed, having first married king Ordoño II of León late in his life as his third wife - two of her sisters, Onneca and Urraca, would marry Sancha's step-sons, Alfonso IV of León and Ramiro II of León. Following Ordoño's death in 924, she had married count Álvaro Herrameliz. Her marriage to Fernán not only allowed him to unite Castile, but reinforced political alliances across the Christian north.
Fernán gathered under his control a strong military force composed of troops from the counties of Burgos, Asturias, Santillana, Lantaron, Álava, Castile, and Lara. His military prowess came to prominence in the Battle of Simancas in 939 and then at Sepulveda, where he wrested the region from the Moors and repopulated it. As his power increased, so did his independence from León.
His life and feats are recorded in an anonymous poem, The Poem of Fernán González, written between 1250 and 1271 and preserved as an incomplete copy from the fifteenth century.
Fernando and Sancth's remains were buried in the monastery of San Pedro de Arlanza and subsequently transferred in 1841 to the church of San Cosme and San Damián de Covarrubias.
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