Gutierre Rodríguez Señor de la Castañeda

  Noted events in his life were:

• Web Reference:
Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands - Gutierre de Castañeda is given as the earliest Castañeda in primary sources. His son is Nuño Gutiérrez de Castañdeda, "de las cautro manos." The Nobiliario of Pedro Conde de Barcelos names "Don Nuño o Maño Gutierrez llamado de las quatro manos" as the child of "Conde don Gutierre de Castañeda", recording the story of his victory against the Navarrese, "fighting against the odds, whereby he earned his nickname" [Pedro Barcelos, Tit. XIV, Castañeda, 2 p. 100]. The son of Nuño is Gómez Núñez de Castañeda who married María Froilaz. The Nobiliario of Pedro Conde de Barcelos names "Conde don Gomes de Castañeda" as the child of "Conde Don Nuño Gutierrez" [ibid]. The Nobiliario of Pedro Conde de Barcelos records that "Conde don Gomes de Castañeda" married "doña María hija del Conde don Fruela" [ibid]. Gómez & his wife had one child that we know of, Diego Gómez de Castañeda . The Nobiliario of Pedro Conde de Barcelos names "don Diego Gomez de Castañeda" as the child of "Conde don Gomes de Castañeda" [ibid].

• Reference:
Francisco Piferrer, Nobiliario de los reinos y señorios de España, (revisado por A. Rujula y Busel), pp. 82-83, Castañada Pedigree

Don Fuela II, rey de León, was the father of:

El infante don Ordoño married la infantan doña Cristina, daughter of rey don Bermundo II, and they were the parents of:

El Conde don Alonso Ordóñez married doña Justa in 955, and they founded the monastery of Santa María Liébana. They were the parents of:

Conde don Rodrigo Alonso married doña Gonia, and they were the parents of:

Don Diego Rodríquez, duke of Asturias and count of Oviedo, married doña Xiména Alonso, daughter of King Don Alonso V. They had many children including their son:

Conde don Rodrigo Alonso Duke of Asturias and Count of Oviedo, married doña Elvira Gómez. Their son was:

Conde don Gutierre Rodríguez, señor de Castañeda, flourished at the end of the eleventh century. His first born son was:

El conde don Muño ó Nuño Gutiérrez, second señor de Castañeda, was the father of:

Conde don Gómez Muñoz a.k.a. Nuñez de Castañeda, Lord of the House, served Rey Don Alonso VII valiantly in the wars of the time. He married condesa doña María Frolaz, daughter of don Fruela Ramírez, cone de Astorga, etc. Their first born son was:

Don Diego Gómez Castañada, first born son, flourished in the mid thirteenth century. He married his aunt, doña Major de Asturias and their first born son was:

Don Pedro Díaz de Castañada, fifth lord of Castañeda. He married twice, first to doña Mayor Alonso de Celada, and second to doña Ynés Rodríguez de Villalobos

• Reference:
Joseph Manuel Trelles Villademoros, Austrías Illustrada, Vol. II, p. 172-173

Don Rodrígo Días de Asturias married doña Xiména Gómez and they were the parents of don Gutierre Rodríguez de Astrurias, who was the first to be named Castañeda. Gutierre was followed by his son, don Nuño Gutiérrez de Castañeda.

Gutierre married.