Fernando Pérez
Modern Standardized Name
Fernando Pérez
Titles
count of Traba and Transtamara
Origin
Sarria (42.783333, -7.416667)
Expedition Date/s
1153
Biography
Count Fernando Pérez rose to be one of the most powerful princes in the western Iberian peninsula, with lands and titles in the kingdom of Léon, Galicia, and exercising power in Portugal. He participated in military expeditions against Muslim powers in Iberia, including at the conquest of Almería. He undertook two expeditions to Jerusalem after the Second Crusade.
Source
Colección diplomática del monasterio de Sahagún, ed. Jose Maria Minguez Fernández, Marta Herrero de la Fuente (7 vols., León: Centro de Estudios e Investigación "San Isidoro", 1976), vol 3. 409-410.
Bibliography
Simon Barton, Aristocracy in the Kingdom of Léon-Castile (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), p. 212.
Citation
“Fernando Pérez,” Independent Crusaders Project, accessed September 13, 2024, https://independentcrusadersproject.ace.fordham.edu/items/show/2390.