Count of Trastámara

The title Earl of Trastamara is a title of nobility from the Galician part of the Kingdom of León. For earldom was the Tierra de Trastmára, an area in the northwestern Galicia within the present province of A Coruña. The region is bounded on the southeast by the River Tambre, of the field also gave the name: Trastámara = Trans Tameris, beyond the Tambre. Trastamaras center is the church of Santa Comba.

The first Named Earl of Trastámara was Pedro de Fróilaz Traba (or Trava, 1086/1126 attested ), who was the most powerful secular noblemen in the kingdom of Galicia. However, it should be borne in mind that the document of the monastery Caaveiro of 1125, in which the title of count is called, is suspected to be fake. His son Fernando Pérez de Traba ( 1090 - 1155 ) was the lover of Teresa of León (Dona Teresa de Leão, 1080-1130 ), the illegitimate daughter of King Alfonso VI. of León - Castile and wife of Henry of Burgundy, the County of Portugal received as a dowry, and there eventually even regent (1112 ) and Queen. The daughter of Theresa and Fernando, Teresa Fernández de Traba († 1180), was the second wife of King Ferdinand II of León ( † 1188 ).

The most significant of Mr. Trastámara however, was Enrique el de las Mercedes (1333-1379), the illegitimate son of King Alfonso XI. of Castile and León and Leonor de Guzman. He was given the title of Count of Trastámara, Lemos and Sarria, and under the name Trastámara he succeeded in 1369 as Henry II, the accession to the throne of Castile and León. The donated by him Trastámara house, however, has not much to do with the county, as the branch line, the Trastámara was given extinct mid-15th century. The title was awarded in the year of death of the last Countess ( 1455 ) to a relative of her husband on. Since then, he is passed on in the family Osorio or their descendants.

Lords of Trastámara

• Pedro de Fróilaz Traba (1086/1126 testifies ) is referred to in 1125 as Count in Trastámara
• Fernando Pérez de Traba ( 1090 - 1155 ), his son, reigned Trastámara 1132-1145; he was the lover of Teresa of León (1080-1130), countess and regent (1112 ) and Queen of Portugal
• Gonzalo Fernández de Traba, 1155 Count, whose son

• Rodrigo Alvarez de Asturias, Señor de Girón y Norona Trastámara († 1334 ); ∞ Isabel de la Cerda, * 1322, † before 1383, señora de El Puerto de Santa María, daughter of Luis de la Cerda ( House of Burgundy - Ivrea )

The counts of Trastámara out of the house Trastámara

• Henry II († 1379 ), Conde de Trastámara, Lemos y Sarria, 1369/79 King of Castile and Leon; Fadrique Alfonso (1333-1358), Señor de Haro, whose brother

The counts of Trastámara out of the house Osorio

• Álvaro Pérez Osorio, señor de las casas de Osorio y Villalobos, 1369 1 conde de Villalobos
• Juan Álvarez Osorio († 1417), whose son, señor de Villalobos, 2 conde de Villalobos; ∞ Aldonza de Guzmán, daughter of Ramiro Núñez, señor de la casa de Guzmán, señor de Toral, and Elvira de Bazán,
• Pedro Álvarez Osorio († 1461 ), whose son, 3rd conde de Villalobos, 1455 1 conde de Trastámara; ∞ I Isabel de Rojas, daughter of Martín Sánchez de Rojas, señor de Monzón y Cabra, and Elvira Manrique; ∞ II Elvira de Zúñiga, daughter of Pedro de Zúñiga, 1st señor de Béjar, 1 conde de Ledesma (1430 ), 1 conde de Trujillo, 1 conde de Plasencia, señor de Ayamonte y de Miranda, and Isabel de Guzmán; ∞ III Inés de Guzmán, 1st duquesa de Villalba, daughter of Egidio González Dávila, señor de Cespedosa, and Aldonza / Inés de Guzmán
• Álvaro Pérez Osorio († 1480 of the plague ), whose son from 1st marriage, 2nd conde de Trastámara, 1465 1 marqués de Astorga, 4th conde de Villalobos, 3rd conde de Trastámara Trava y, 1 duque de Aguiar; ∞ 1462 Leonor Enriquez († 1471 ), daughter of Fadrique Enríquez, 1 conde de Melgar y de Rueda, 2nd Almirante de Castilla, and Teresa de Quiñones
• Pedro Álvarez Osorio, whose son, 2nd marqués de Astorga, 5th conde y señor de Villalobos, 3rd conde de Trastámara, 2nd duque de Aguiar; ∞ Beatriz / Teresa de Quiñones, daughter of Diego Fernández Vigil de Quiñones, first conde de Luna and Juana Enríquez
• Pedro Álvarez Osorio († 1560), whose son from 1st marriage, 4th marqués de Astorga, 5th conde de Trastámara, 4th conde de Santa Marta de Ortigueira, 7 conde y señor de Villalobos; ∞ I María Ana Pimentel ( María de Velasco ), daughter of Alonso Pimentel Pacheco, 5th conde duque de Benavente y 2, 4th conde de Mayorga, and Ana de Velasco Herrera, señora de Cigales y Pedraza; ∞ II Catalina de Mendoza; ∞ III Juana de Leiva, condesa de Villada, daughter of Sancho Martinez de Leiva, señor de la casa de Leiva, and Francisca de Guevara
• Álvar Pérez Osorio ( IV) ( † 1567), whose son from 1st marriage, 5th marqués de Astorga, 6 conde de Trastámara, 5th conde de Santa Marta de Ortigueira, 8th conde de Villalobos, ∞ Beatriz de Toledo, daughter of Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva, Viceroy of Naples, governor of the Netherlands, and María Enríquez de Guzmán
• Antonio Pedro Álvarez Osorio († 1589 ), whose son, 6 marqués de Astorga, 7 conde de Trastámara, 6 conde de Santa Marta de Ortigueira, 9 conde de Villalobos; ∞ María Quiñones de Beaumont, daughter of Luis de Quiñones, 5th conde de Luna, and Francisca de Beaumont
• Alfonso Pérez Osorio y Velasco Herrera ( † 1592), whose uncle, 7 marqués de Astorga, 8th conde de Trastámara, 7 conde de Santa Marta de Ortigueira, 10, conde de Villalobos; ∞ María Osorio de Castro, daughter of Juan Álvarez Osorio, and María Osorio de Castro Pedro Alvarez Osorio, his brother; ∞ Constanza de Castro Osorio, señora de Poula, Refoxos, daughter of Juan Álvarez Osorio and María Osorio de Castro

• Ana Osorio Manrique, whose sister; ∞ 1617 Luis de Velasco, 2nd marqués de Salinas de Río Pisuerga,
• Juana Maria de Velasco y Osorio, whose daughter, 3 marquesa de Salinas de Río Pisuerga; ∞

• María del Perpetuo Socorro Osorio de Moscoso y Reinoso (1899-1980), whose sister, 19 duquesa de Sessa; ∞ 1917 Barón y Leopoldo Torres ( * 1890), son of Alvaro Barón y Zea Bermudez and Fernanda de Torres y Erro

Swell

• Detlev Schwennicke: European pedigrees, band 3.1; 1984; Table 64; and band 3.3; 1985; panel 532b