Mendo Alão, Lord of
Vila de Bragança, was a
medieval knight of the 11th century. He served as a Monk in the Monastery of São Salvador de
Castro de Avelãs, Portugal.
Biography
According to ancient genealogists, he was a grandson of
Alan II, Duke of Brittany. Those same sources indicate that he was born around the year 1000 in Brittany, son of the Count Alain of
Nantes
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, a rich nobleman, and an
Armenian princess, belonging to the
Kingdom of Vaspurakan
The Kingdom of Vaspurakan (; also transliterated as Vasbouragan from Western Armenian) was a Middle Ages, medieval Armenians, Armenian kingdom centered on Lake Van, located in what is now eastern Turkey and northwestern Iran. It was named after ...
.
Mendo Alao de Bragança was married with an Armenian princess, who was possibly the daughter of
Senekerim-Hovhannes Artsruni. In addition to having been lord of the lands of Bragança, he extended its dominions to
Castile and León
Castile and León ( es, Castilla y León ; ast-leo, Castiella y Llión ; gl, Castela e León ) is an autonomous community in northwestern Spain.
It was created in 1983, eight years after the end of the Francoist regime, by the merging of the ...
. He and his wife had two children: Fernão Mendes de Bragança and Ouroana Mendes.
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References
External links
*https://archive.org/details/studiesinportugu00bell
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Portuguese nobility
Portuguese Roman Catholics
11th-century Portuguese people
People from Bragança, Portugal
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