Sisnando Menéndez
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Sisnando Menéndez was a bishop of
Iria Flavia Iria Flavia or simply Iria in Galicia, northwestern Spain, is an Ancient settlement and former bishopric in the modern municipality of Padrón, which remains a Catholic titular see. History Located at the confluence of the Sar and Ulla rivers, ...
in Galicia, known as Sisnando II, from 952–68. He appears to have been killed in a Viking raid.Ann Christys, ''Vikings in the South'' (London: Bloomsbury, 2015), pp. 83-85. He was the son of
Hermenegildo Alóitez Hermenegildo Alóitez ('' c.'' 898 – before 10 December 966), was a magnate and member of the highest nobility of Galicia in the 10th century. His parents were Count Aloito Gutiérrez and Argilo Alóitez, daughter of Alóito and Paterna, the f ...
and his successor was Pelayo Rodríguez.


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