Diego Fernández (''

fl. ''Floruit'' ( ; usually abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for '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 indic ...

'' 1020 – 1046), also known as Diego Fernández de Oviedo, was a member of one of the most noble lineages of the

Kingdom of León The Kingdom of León was an independent kingdom situated in the northwest region of the Iberian Peninsula. It was founded in 910 when the Christian princes of Kingdom of Asturias, Asturias along the Bay of Biscay, northern coast of the peninsula ...

as the son of

Fernando Flaínez Fernando Flaínez (Floruit, fl. ) was a powerful magnate from the Kingdom of León, a member of the aristocratic lineage of the Flaínez. His parents were Flaín Muñoz and his wife Justa Fernández, daughter of count Fernando Bermúdez de Cea. He ...

and Elvira Peláez, daughter of count Pelayo Rodríguez. He was the second cousin of King Ferdinand I since both shared the same great-grandfather, Count

Fernando Bermúdez de Cea Fernando Bermúdez (died 978), second Count of Cea, was the son of Bermudo Núñez and his wife Argilo. As the father of a queen of Navarre, and therefore, ancestor of many royal houses, Fernando was a distinguished member of the highest ranks of ...

. Distinguished with the title of Count at an early age, Diego was the father of

Jimena Díaz Doña Jimena Díaz, also spelled Ximena (; ; before July 1046 – ), reigned as Princess of Valencia from 1099 to 1102. She was the wife and successor of El Cid, whom she married between July 1074 and 12 May 1076. The Principality of Val ...

, wife of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar ''El Cid''.

Marriages and issue

Count Diego first married Elvira Ovéquiz, daughter of Count Oveco Sánchez and Countess Elo, who gave him two daughters: * Onneca ''Mayor'' Díaz the wife of Gundemaro Iohannes (Ibáñez) * Aurovita Díaz, married to Munio Godestéiz,most probably the Muño Gustioz mentioned in the ''

Cantar de Mio Cid ''El Cantar de mio Cid'', or ''El Poema de mio Cid'' ("The Song of My Cid"; "The Poem of My Cid"), is an anonymous '' cantar de gesta'' and the oldest preserved Castilian epic poem. Based on a true story, it tells of the deeds of the Castilian h ...

'' who would have been the brother-in-law of Jimena Díaz who fought along with ''El Cid'' and accompanied Jimena during her widowhood. His second wife, probably named Cristina, was a daughter of Fernando Gundemáriz and granddaughter of

Gundemaro Pinióliz Gundemaro Pinióliz (died ), was a noble from the Kingdom of León, the ancestor of one of the most important Asturias, Asturian lineages of the Middle Ages, and most likely the great-grandfather of Jimena Díaz, wife of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, ''e ...

. The documented offspring of this marriage were: * Rodrigo Díaz, count in Asturias, who, according to the charters in the Monastery of San Juan de Corias, could have married a Gontrodo with whom he had two daughters, Sancha a Mayor Rodríguez. *

Fernando Díaz Fernando Díaz (''floruit'' 1071–1106) was a Spanish nobleman and military leader in the Kingdom of León, the most powerful Asturian magnate of the period. He held the highest rank in the kingdom, that of count (Latin ''comes''), from at least 2 ...

, one of the most powerful magnates of his period, who first married Godo Gonzalez Salvadórez and then Enderquina Muñoz, daughter of Count Munio González. *

, the wife of ''El Cid''.

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