Los condes Fruela Muñoz y Pedro Flaínez: la formación de un patrimonio señorial

Abstract

The Asturian count Fruela Muñoz and the León count Pedro Flaínez acquired an inmense wealth during their lives. In the case of the former, it mostly concentrated on the area known as Viñayo, whereas the latter's in Valdoré, both in León. They developed their public activities in the second half of the 10th century and the first half of the 11th century. Their biographies and activities have many things in common. They both enjoyed a long life in the mountain area of Asturias and León and during which they acquired a great number of properties from legacies and from the profits of their own businesses and judicial acts. The marriage of Fruela Muñoz's only daughter to Pedro Laínez's son ensured the cohesion of their properties, which were transmitted through several generations until their descendant María Núñez donated them to the monastery of St. María de Otero de las Dueñas in León. In this study, we shall be paying attention to their biographies, to the emergence of their wealth and its description, in the light of the documents kept in the count archives from the oldest fund of parchments at the monastery of Otero.