Elvira Ramírez
Modern Standardized Name
Elvira Ramírez
Titles
countess of
Origin
Oña (42.733611, -3.413056)
Expedition Date/s
1161
Biography
A member of the Navarrese royal family, Elvira married Rodrigo Gómez, a Castilian nobleman with landholdings in Asturias who was made a count. By 1141, he was acting as regent of the kingdom of Castile. He died in 1153. Elvira confirmed a grant had made to the monastery of Oña before her departure for Jerusalem in 1161.
Source
Colección diplomática de San Salvador de Oña (822-1284), ed. Juan del Alamo (2 vols., Madrid, 1951), vol. 1, pp. 269-271
Bibliography
Simon Barton, Aristocracy in the Kingdom of Léon-Castile (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997),The Aristocracy, p. 212
Citation
“Elvira Ramírez,” Independent Crusaders Project, accessed September 18, 2024, https://independentcrusadersproject.ace.fordham.edu/items/show/2391.