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Birth:          ABT  910 
Death:           968 

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumadona_Dias
Mumadona Dias, or Muniadomna Díaz (died 968), was a Countess of Portugal, who 
ruled the county jointly with her husband from about c. 920 and then on her own after 
her husband's death around 950 until her death in 968. Celebrated, rich and the most 
powerful woman in the Northwest of the Iberian peninsula, she has been 
commemorated by several Portuguese cities.
Life[edit]

She was one of the three daughters of Count Diogo Fernandes and of countess Onega 
(or Onecca) who had been the tutors of the future King Ramiro II of León.[a] Between 
915 and 920 and, most certainly by 926—the year in which they appear together for the 
first time when King Ramiro II gave the couple the villa of Creximir near Guimarães[7]
[8][9]— she married Count Hermenegildo González.

Hermenegildo died between 943 and 950, and Mumadona governed the county alone 
after her husband's death. She left it in the ownership of countless domains, in an 
area that coincided reasonably with zones that would integrate the back counties of 
Portugal and of Coimbra.

Those domains were divided in July 950 among her six children, giving Gonzalo 
Menéndez the county of Portugal. In 950 or 951, with divine inspiration, she founded, 
on her property in Vimaranes, a monastery under São Mamede's invocation (Mosteiro 
of São Mamede or Mosteiro of Guimarães). Later she professed her vows there. To 
protect this monastery and its people from Viking raids, she initiated the construction 
of the Castle of Guimarães,[10] in the shade of which Guimarães' burgh was 
developed, and due to the constant raids, in 968 she gave this castle to the 
monastery for its protection.[10] Eventually this became the headquarters of the court 
of the counts of Portugal.

The testamentary document in which she makes the donation of her domains, cattle, 
incomes, religious objects and books to Guimarães monastery, dated January 26, 959,
[6][11] was important for verifying the existence of several castles and villages in the 
region

Parents
FERNANDES Diogo (ABT  880 - BEF 1 Dec  928)
____ Onecca ()

Siblings
DIAS Mumadona (ABT  910 -  968)

Marriage To GONZALEZ Hermenegildo (ABT  909 - ABT  945)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
BETOTEZ Gonzalo (ABT  880 -  944)
ERIZ Teresa (ABT  890 - )

Children by GONZALEZ Hermenegildo ABT  909 - ABT  945
MENENDEZ Gonzalo (ABT  940 -  997)

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