Tello Téllez de Meneses

He was a member of a prominent family from Meneses in the Tierra de Campos.

A Palencian cultural institute, the Institución Tello Téllez de Meneses, bears his name.

He protected the friar and itinerant preacher Pedro González Telmo and offered to admit him to the university.

In 1215–16, he attended the Fourth Lateran Council, a general synod of the Roman Catholic Church.

During his episcopate, the fortified church and palace of Villamuriel de Cerrato were built.