Nuno Alvites, also referred to as Nuno or Nuño Aloitiz (''

fl. ''Floruit'' ( ; usually abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for 'flourished') denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indic ...

'' 10171028), was a

count of Portugal The County of Portugal (Galician-Portuguese: ''Comtato de Portugalle''; referred to as Portugalia in contemporary documents) refers to two successive medieval counties in the region around Guimarães and Porto, today corresponding to litoral Nor ...

, a descendant of the first count,

Vímara Peres Vímara PeresVímara is an originally Visigothic name of Germanic origin (cognate with Weimar or Guimar) and Peres is a patronymic, meaning son of Pedro or Peter. The name can therefore be equated with Weimar/Guimar Peterson. (died in Galici ...

as the son of Count

Alvito Nunes Alvito Nunes or Aloyto Núñez (died 1015) was an 11th-century County of Portugal, Count of Portugal. Following the death of Menendo González in 1008, he governed the county jointly with Toda, count Menendo's widow. Alvito Nunes was killed by V ...

and Gontina. His presence is recorded for the first time in 1017. He appears in 1025 confirming a donation made by King

Alfonso V of León Alfonso V (c. 9947 August 1028), called the Noble, was King of León from 999 to 1028. Like other kings of León, he used the title emperor () to assert his standing among the Christian rulers of Spain. He succeeded his father, Bermudo II, in 9 ...

to Nuno's brother, Pedro Alvites and again in that same year in another charter in which he states that he succeeded his father Alvito. He ruled the county with his spouse Ilduara Mendes, daughter of earlier count

Menendo González Menendo González (Portuguese language, Portuguese and Galician language, Galician: ''Mendo Gonçalves''; died 6 October 1008) was a semi-autonomous Kingdom of Galicia, Duke of Galicia and County of Portugal, Count of Portugal (997–1008), a domi ...

, until he was assassinated in 1028, the same year as the death of King Alfonso V. Ilduara continued to rule the county, with her son Mendo, who was still a child, as regent after her husband's death.

Marriage and issue

Mendo Nunes Mendo Nunes (Spanish: Menendo Núñez; (1020/10281050/1054) was a Count of Portugal from the family of Vímara Peres as the son of Nuno Alvites and Ilduara Mendes. Biographical sketch Mendo succeeded his father, who died in 1028, in the gov ...

(or Menendo Núñez), (''

'' 10281050/1053). He governed the country probably as a minor under the regency of his mother and alone as of 1043. * Gontroda Núñez, whose presence is recorded in medieval sources from 1028 until 1088, was married to Count Vasco. They were the parents of at least one child, count

Nuño Velázquez (Spanish) or ( Catalan) is a masculine given name of Latin origin (, , , and so on). Its Portuguese form is . Its patronymic is (). Already in the Middle Ages the name was being confused with the similar but distinct name Munio. The meaning o ...

, known in Portuguese sources as Nuno Vasques or Nuno of Celanova. Nuño married Fronilde Sánchez and had several children, including counts

Alfonso Alphons (Latinized ''Alphonsus'', ''Adelphonsus'', or ''Adefonsus'') is a male given name recorded from the 8th century (Alfonso I of Asturias, r. 739–757) in the Christian successor states of the Visigothic Kingdom in the Iberian Peninsula. I ...

, Menendo, and

Sancho Nunes de Barbosa The name Sancho () is an Iberian name of Basque origin (Santxo, Santzo, Santso, Antzo, Sans). Sancho stems from the Latin name Sanctius. Feminine forms of the name are Sancha, Sancia, and Sanchia (), and the common patronymic is Sánchez and Sanc ...

. * Munio Nunes, who sold a property in Domez before 1031.

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