Ponce Vela de Cabrera

Ponce Vela de Cabrera, also known as Ponce Vélaz de Cabrera (died 24 September 1202),[1] was a noble from the Kingdom of León who played an important role during the reign of Alfonso IX.

Through one of his sons descends the Ponce de León, "one of the most illustrious aristocratic houses of the later Middle Ages".

[1] He starts to appear in royal charters in 1176, and served as the alférez of King Alfonso IX in 1185 and in the following year, in which he was also appointed tenant-in-chief of Mansilla and other villages and regions that had been governed by his relatives count Suero Vermúdez and Pedro Alfonso, including Tineo and Babia, Gozón, and Cabezón.

Count Ponce Vela married Teresa Rodríguez Giron, daughter of Rodrigo Gutiérrez Girón and his first wife, María de Guzmán.

In 1195, Pontius Velez una cum uxore mea, Tharesia Rodrigues (Ponce Vela with my wife, Teresa Rodríguez) donated one-third of Granucillo that he had inherited from his parents to the Monastery of Nogales.