Vela Gutiérrez

[1] He was addressed only as "my knight" (militi meo) on 14 May 1149, when the Emperor Alfonso VII granted him the village of Morales del Rey with the territory of Nogales in hereditary right "with all its appurtenances ... for his services" (cum toto eius honore ... pro servitio).

[6] Beginning sometime after 23 April 1148, probably in 1149, he ruled the fief of La Cabrera, which was granted him by the Crown probably at the request of his father-in-law, who had ceded it for just this purpose, probably to serve as a wedding gift.

[9] In the foundation charter of the nunnery, which was written up at Salamanca before his father-in-law, Vela thanks Ponce for the help he received from him in acquiring the property on which the convent was to be built from Alfonso.

I, Vela Gutiérrez, jointly with my wife, Sancha Ponce, give out of goodwill and voluntarily to God and to you, Lady Aldoara Pérez, and to your successors, for the remedy of our souls and those of our parents and of all the late faithful, that hereditary property that the emperor gave us in the valley of the Eria, namely, the village they call Nogales.

[15] On 5 June 1181 the three brothers Fernando, Juan and Pedro and Suero Meléndez granted an estate they had inherited at Gema to their sister on the condition that after her death it would fall to the Order of Fontevrault and a convent be established there.