Monterroso is a municipality in the province of
Lugo
Lugo (, ) is a city in northwestern Spain in the autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Galicia (Spain), Galicia. It is the capital of the Lugo (province), province of Lugo. The municipality had a population of 100,060 in 2024, ...
, in the autonomous community of
Galicia, Spain.
It belongs to the
comarca
A ''comarca'' (, , , ) is a traditional region or local administrative division found in Portugal, Spain, and some of their former colonies, like Brazil, Nicaragua, and Panama. The term is derived from the term ''marca'', meaning a "march, mark ...
of
A Ulloa
A Ulloa is a comarca in the province of Lugo, Galicia, in northwestern Spain.
Notable places
The municipalities in A Ulloa are Antas de Ulla (capital), Monterroso, and Palas de Rei.
It is home to the Special Zone of Conservation Serra do Car ...
.
History
Monterroso was the seat of an important ''
tenencia
In medieval and early modern Europe, a tenant-in-chief (or vassal-in-chief) was a person who held his lands under various forms of feudal land tenure directly from the king or territorial prince to whom he did homage, as opposed to holding them ...
'' in medieval Galicia. Among its known tenants were:
*
Suero Vermúdez (''c''.1100)
*
Gutierre Vermúdez (1112)
*
Munio Peláez
Munio or Muño Peláez (''floruit'' 1105–1142; died perhaps 1149) was a Galician magnate, a member of the Banu Gómez clan, during the reigns of Alfonso VI, Urraca and Alfonso VII. By December 1108 he held the title of ''comes'' (count), th ...
(1112–16)
*
Fernando Pérez de Traba
Fernando (or Fernán) Pérez de Traba (; – 1 November 1155), or Fernão Peres de Trava (), was a nobleman and count of the Kingdom of León who for a time held power over all Galicia. He became the lover of Countess Teresa of Portugal, throug ...
(1140–53)
*
Gonzalo Fernández de Traba (1157–60), son of the former
*
Fernando González de Traba Fernando González de Traba or Fernão Gonçalves (''fl.'' 1159–1165) was a Galician magnate and the head of the House of Traba in the Kingdom of León during the reign of Ferdinand II. He was the eldest son of Gonzalo Fernández de Traba and ...
(1160–63)
*
Rodrigo Álvarez (1168)
*
Gómez González de Traba (1170–73), first time
*
Gómez González de Manzanedo
Gómez González de Manzanedo (died 12 October 1182) was a Castilian magnate who governed Calahorra and defended the border with Navarre in the 1150s and 1160s. He spent three periods in the neighbouring Kingdom of León.
Gómez's parentage is u ...
(1173)
*
Gómez González de Traba (1189–1200), second time
References
External links
*
Municipalities in the Province of Lugo
{{Galicia-geo-stub