Leonese and Castilian Given Names 1050-1200

A Partial List of Leonese and Castilian Given Names 1050-1200

by Diego Mundoz (Robert Huff)
roberthuff@rcn.com

Updated 31 Mar 2004.
© 1997,1998,1999,2004 by Robert Huff; all rights reserved.


The following is a list of the given names of the lords temporal or spiritual in the courts of Leon and Castile from approximately 1050 to 1200. It suffers -- in addition to whatever deficiencies exist in my compilation -- any errors extant in the sources. While I have no hesitation in using these sources, you have been warned.

Other names are used in the sources, but I have not included them for several reasons. Most are omitted because I find them only in the patronymic and I am insufficiently sure of the original form. In other cases, I have doubts whether the name is either that of a saint (of unknown origin and possibly not in current use) or is primarily associated with individuals not from this region. The list of saint's names is substantial; that of "foreigners" is quite small.

Men's Names

Women's Names

Adulfo
Alfonso
Alvar
Alvito
Amentario
Amor
Ansuro
Antonio
Aznaro
Arias
Auderico
Cresconio
Diego
Domingo
Ederoño
Ermegildo
Fagildo
Fernán/Fernando
Froila
García
Gelmiro
Gomez
Gonsalvo
Gonzalo
Gudesteo
Guter
Jimeno
Jorge
Juan
Julian
Lope
Lugo
Martin
Menendo
Muño
Ordoño
Osmundo
Osoro
Pedro
Pelayo
Ramiro
Ramón
Salvadór
Sancho
Sarracino
Sebastian
Suero
Telo
Vedillo
Vela
Velasco
Vellito
Vermudo
Vimaro
Vistruario
Aldonza
Beatriz
Constanza
Cristina
Elo
Elvira
Enderquina
Ermengarda
Estefania
Eva
Fronilde
Guntroda
Ildaria
Ines
Jimena
Lupaa
Mafalda
Maria
Mayor
Mencia
Paterna
Sancha
Tegrida
Teresa
Toda
Urraca

Sources:

The Kingdom of Leon-Castilla under King Alfonso VI 1065-1109 by Bernard Reilly (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1988, ISBN 0-691-05515-7)

The Kingdom of Leon-Castilla under Queen Urraca 1109-1126 by Bernard Reilly (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1982, ISBN 0-691-05344-8).

The aristocracy in twelth-century Leon and Castile by Simon Barton (Cambridge, UK; Cambridge University Press, 1997, ISBN 0-521-49727-2)


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