Diego Muñoz conde de Saldaña
- Born: Asturias, Iberia
- Marriage: Tigridia de Castilla
- Died: 15 May 951 or 952, Iberia
Noted events in his life were:
• Web Reference: Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, Asturias & León Nobility
Diego Muñoz was the son of Munio Gómez and Conde de Saldaña. . He married Tegrida. "Didasco Moniz...cum coniuge mea Tegridia" founded the monastery of San Román de Entrepeñas by charter dated 940, witnessed by "Tegridia...Monmo, Gomez, Ieluira, Ossorio..."[Yepes (1617), Tomo VI, Apendix, XV, p. 460]. Until the early 940s he was a supporter of the kings of León, signing in 941 the pact between King Ramiro II and the Caliph. In 943, conde don Diego allied himself with Fernando González Conde de Castilla and rebelled against Ramiro II King of León but was captured and briefly imprisoned in Gordón. His last documented appearance is as witness to King Ordoño III's donation to the monastery of Sahagún 15 May 951.
Tegridia is mentioned in her husband's 940 donation to the monastery of San Román de Entrepeñas, which also mentions Munio, Gómez, Elvira and Osorio assumed to be four of their children.
Diego married Tigridia de Castilla. (Tigridia de Castilla was born in Asturias, Iberia and died after 940.)
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