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Birth:          ABT  996 
Death:          2 Dec 1022 Leon
Burial:         Basilica of St. Isidore, Leon

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvira_Men%C3%A9ndez_(died_1022)
Elvira Menéndez, (Portuguese and Galician: Elvira Mendes; c.?996 – 2 December 
1022), was a queen consort of Leon by marriage to King Alfonso V.
Life[edit]

She was a member of the highest ranks of the nobility of Portugal and Galicia as the 
daughter of count Menendo González, Count of Portucale and his wife Toda (also 
known as Tutadomna, Tota),.[1][2]

She became Queen Consort of León as the wife of King Alfonso V with whom she was 
raised as a child. Her father, Menendo, was a member of the curia regis of King 
Bermudo II of León and the tutor and co-regent, jointly with Queen Elvira Garcia, of 
Infante Alfonso,[3][1] who later ruled as Alfonso V of León.

Queen Elvira died on 2 December 1022[4] and was buried in the Royal Pantheon of 
the Basilica of San Isidoro in León.[5]

Issue[edit]

Elvira had two children with Alfonso V whom she married in 1013:[6]
Bermudo III of León,[6] killed in 1037 in the Battle of Tamarón by count Ferdinand 
who was married to Sancha, Bermudo's sister;[7]
Sancha of León, queen of León and the wife of Ferdinand I.[6]

Parents
GONZALEZ Menendo (ABT  970 - Oct 1008)
____ Totadomna (Toda) (ABT  970 - 1025)

Siblings
MENENDEZ OF GALICIA Elvira (ABT  996 - 2 Dec 1022)

Marriage To ____ Alfonso V ( 994 - 7 Aug 1028)
    m. Jan 1015 

Notes

Parents
____ Vermudo (Bermudo) II "the Gouty" (ABT  953 - Sep  999)
GARCIA OF CASTILE Elvira (ABT  978 - 1017)

Children by ____ Alfonso V  994 - 7 Aug 1028
OF LEON Sancha (ABT 1016 - 27 Nov 1067)

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