Fernando Díaz (
fl. 917–924) was the count and ''
tenente'' of
Lantarón Lantarón (Basque: ''Landaran'') is a town and municipality located in the province of Álava, in the Basque Country, northern Spain.
Villages
* Alcedo(Altzeta)
* Bergüenda(Bergoiandia)
* Caicedo de Yuso(Kaitzeo)
* Comunión
* Fontecha (O ...
and
Cerezo on the eastern frontier of the
Kingdom of León in 923–24. He was a son of
Diego Rodríguez,
count of Castile
This is a list of counts of Castile.
The County of Castile had its origin in a fortified march on the eastern frontier of the Kingdom of Asturias. The earliest counts were not hereditary, being appointed as representatives of the Asturian king. Fr ...
.
There is a document dated 28 March 913 which records that King Vermudo was reigning in León and Fernando Díaz in Lantarón. Unfortunately, the date on the document is impossible, since
Vermudo II Bermudo or Vermudo, from Latin Veremundus, is a given name of Germanic origin. It may refer to:
*Veremund (fl. c. 500), Suevic king of Galicia
*Bermudo I of Asturias (r. 788–91), king, called "the Deacon" (''el Diácono'')
*Bermudo II of León (r. ...
was not king at that time and the count of Lantarón, known from other documents, was
Gonzalo Téllez Gonzalo Téllez (died 915) was a nobleman who was Count of Lantarón and Cerezo de Río Tirón, Cerezo (c. 897–c. 915) and is also mentioned in a document dated 903 as List of Castilian counts, Count of Castile. He and his wife were the founders ...
. The historian
Gonzalo Martínez Díez has suggested the date should be corrected to 923 and the king to
Ordoño II.
In 917, after the death of Count
Gonzalo Fernández of Castile
Gonzalo Fernández was Count of Burgos (ca. 899-915) and of List of Castilian counts, Castile (c. 909-915).
Recorded for the first time in 899 as Count of Burgos, soon the region expanded to the eastern mountain valleys enabling Gonzalo to make h ...
, a count named Fernando appears governing Castile. This may have been Fernando Díaz, who was active around the same time in the neighbouring region of
Álava
Álava ( in Spanish) or Araba (), officially Araba/Álava, is a province of Spain and a historical territory of the Basque Country, heir of the ancient Lordship of Álava, former medieval Catholic bishopric and now Latin titular see.
Its c ...
, or possibly
Fernando Ansúrez I
Fernando Ansúrez I (died in or shortly after 929) was the Count of Castile in 929 and the earliest known member of the Beni Ansúrez family; his father, Ansur, is known only through his patronymic. He was also count of the Tierra de Campos, which ...
, who was certainly count of Castile at a later date. In January 918, Fernando Díaz was in the city of
León, where he signed a document in
the cathedral as ''Fredinandus Didazi comes'' ("Fernando, son of Diego, count"), without specifying his county.
Fernando had at least two brothers: Gómez Díaz, ''
alférez
In medieval Iberia, an ''alférez'' (, ) or ''alferes'' (, ) was a high-ranking official in the household of a king or magnate. The term is derived from the Arabic ('' al-fāris''), meaning "horseman" or "cavalier", and it was commonly Latinise ...
'' of Count
Fernán González Fernan or Fernán is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:
* Fernán Blázquez de Cáceres, Spanish nobleman
* Fernán Caballero (1796–1877), Spanish novelist
* Fernando Fernán Gómez (1921–2007), Spanish actor ...
of Castile, and Gonzalo Díaz.
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Counts of Álava
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10th-century nobility from the Kingdom of León
9th-century births
10th-century deaths