Fernando Mendea "el Viejo" de Braganza

  Noted events in his life were:

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Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, Protuguese Nobility

Familia de Bragnanza

Fernando Mendez de Bragança was the son of Mendo Alão de Bragança. Fernando married Teresa Soares, daughter of Suero Mendes de Maya and his wife Ervillida Núñez. The Nobiliario of Pedro Conde de Barcelos names "Goda Soarez, Gontrode muger de Ayres Perez de Traba, Teresa Soarez, Elvira, Mayor, Monjas" as the children of "Suero Mendez el Bueno de Maya" and his second wife "Ervillida Nuñez", recording in a later passage that "Fernan Mendez el Viejo" married "Teresa Soarez" [Os Livro de Linhagens, I, Livro Velho, Portugaliæ Monumenta Historica, Scriptores, Vol. I, Fasc. II, p. 165].

Fernando married Teresa Suárez, daughter of Suero Méndez de Amaya "El Bueno" and Ervillida Núñez.