Probably Nuño had died and the counties had been separated again, Gutier succeeding him Burgos and Castile being granted to Fernando Ansúrez.
[3] Gutier appears in a document from the monastery of San Pedro de Cardeña dated 1 March 931.
[5] He was a grandson of Count Gutier Menéndez, a nephew of Saint Rudesind and a sister of Gotona, wife of King Sancho Ordóñez.
The appointment of a Galician from the far west of the kingdom to comital office in Castile in the far east, however, would have been a highly unusual exercise of authority by Alfonso IV.
Since Alfonso IV was deposed within months, it is not surprising that Gutier does not reappear as count in the east after 931.