Ordoño Bermúdez

Although the name of his mother is not known, she was probably a member of the nobility of Galicia as suggested in a document from the Monastery of Samos, where his descendants and those of the Vela-Ovéquiz family shared a common inheritance based on a linea consaguinitatis (bloodline).

[1] A relevant member of the curia regis until at least 1032, Ordoño first appears in medieval documentation in 1001 when he served as a witness in a legal dispute involving count Rodrigo Romániz and Jimena Jiménez.

He started to confirm royal charters in 1024 as the mayordomo mayor of his brother King Alfonso V of León.

[2] Ordoño married Fronilde Peláez, daughter of the rebellious count Pelayo Rodríguez and Gotina Fernández, daughter of Fernando Bermúdez de Cea.

[3] This marriage gave rise to the lineage of the Ordóñez, one of the most important ones in medieval Galicia.