Fernando Ponce de Cabrera (''
fl.
''Floruit'' (; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "they 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 indicatin ...
'' 1161–1171), called ''el Mayor'' ("the elder"), was an important nobleman of the
Kingdom of León
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, the second son of three of
Ponce de Cabrera
Ponce Giraldo de Cabrera (''floruit'' 1105–1162), called Ponç Guerau (or Grau) in Catalan or Pons in Occitan, was a Catalan nobleman, courtier and military leader in the kingdoms of León and Castile.
Ponce came to León in the entourage of ...
, a
Catalan
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baron who had emigrated to León, and his first wife, Sancha (?Núñez), who was deceased by 1142. He married Guiomar Rodríguez, daughter of
Rodrigo Pérez de Traba
Rodrigo Pérez de Traba (''floruit'' 1111–1158/65), called ''el Velloso'' ("the Hairy"), was a Galician magnate who rose to prominence after the coronation of Alfonso VII as co-ruler of León in 1111. He served Alfonso at court in his early ye ...
. Between 13 February 1161 and August 1163 Fernando Ponce was the ''
alférez'' or ''signifer'' (
standard-bearer) of
Ferdinand II, although it is possible that his younger brother of the same name,
Fernando Ponce el Menor, is the one to whom the documents refer.
Early in 1161, Ferdinand, prompted by fear that
Afonso I of Portugal was planning an invasion, bestowed the ''
tenencia
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''s (tenancies-in-chief) of
Ciudad Rodrigo and
Ledesma on Ponce, who in turn gave the latter to his son Fernando. In 1162, on the death of his father, Fernando succeeded to the ''tenencia'' of
Sanabria. On 25 May 1163 Fernando, along with his siblings, made a donation of land at
Villarrín de Campos to the
cathedral of Zamora
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Built between 1151 and 1174, it is one of the finest exampl ...
for their father's soul. From 1169 he held
Zamora, which his father had also held and which his brother Fernando would hold as early as 1176. On 4 August 1171 the two Fernando Ponces sold their land in ''Valdesalce'' to a certain Fernán Baldrín. This is the last record of Fernando Ponce el Mayor. By 11 April 1173 his wife Guiomar had remarried.
[Barton (1997), 243 n5.]
Notes
Bibliography
*E. Fernández-Xesta y Vázquez, "De cuándo y dónde nació el uso de la cabra como signo distintivo en el linaje de los vizcondes de Cabrera", ''Hidalguía'', 33 (1985), 801–25.
*E. Fernández-Xesta y Vázquez, ''Un magnate catalán en la corte de Alfonso VII: Comes Poncius de Cabreira, princeps Çemore'' (Madrid: 1991).
*E. Fernández-Xesta y Vázquez, "‘El motín de la trucha’ y sus consecuencias sobre don Ponce Giraldo de Cabrera, ‘Príncipe de Zamora’", ''Primer Congreso de Historia de Zamora'', 3 vols (Zamora: 1991), III, 261–83.
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1170s deaths
Year of birth unknown