Mendo Alão, Lord of Vila de Bragança, was a medieval knight of the 11th century.
[2] According to ancient genealogists, he was a grandson of Alan II, Duke of Brittany.
[3] Those same sources indicate that he was born around the year 1000 in Brittany, son of the Count Alain of Nantes, a rich nobleman,[4] and an Armenian princess, belonging to the Kingdom of Vaspurakan.
[5] Mendo Alao de Bragança was married with an Armenian princess,[6] who was possibly the daughter of Senekerim-Hovhannes Artsruni.
[7] In addition to having been lord of the lands of Bragança, he extended its dominions to Castile and León.