VÃmara Peres
Vimara Peres ( Spanish variant names: Vimara Pérez; * around 820, † 873 ) was a Galician Warlord of noble descent.
He was in the service of the Reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula. As a vassal of King Alfonso III. of Asturias, he was assigned to areas in the valley of the Duero by the Moors, who had conquered the Visigoth Hispania in the 8th century to recapture.
Supported by knights from the region was Vimara as one of the most responsible for the re-colonization ( Repoblación ) the areas between the rivers Douro and Minho. Following the temporary conquest of the city of Porto in 868 he founded the first Portuguese county with dynastic succession, which had 1070 inventory to the year when the last count of the dynasty of the Vimara Peres, Nuno Mendes, the troops of King García II subject of Galicia.
Vimara built a small castle near Braga, (later by phonetic development: Guimarães ) the name Vimaranis wore. He was the first Earl of the county Portucale, which became the nucleus of the later Portugal. In the same place he died in the year 873
His successor as Earl of Portus Cale (Portugal ), his son Lucidio Vimaranes.
The dynasty of the Vimara Peres
- Vimara Peres ( 868-873 )
- Lucidio Vimaranes ( 873 -? )
- Oneca Lucides, married to Diogo Fernandes (? -924 )
- Mumadona slides, married to Hermenegildo Gonçalves
- Gonçalo Mendes ( 950-999 ), married to Ilduara Pais
- Mendo Gonçalves (999-1008), married to Tutadomna Moniz
- Alvito Nunes (1008-1015)
- Ilduara Mendes, daughter of Mendo Gonçalves, married with Nuno Alvites (1017-1028)
- Mendo Nunes (1028-1050)
- Nuno Mendes (1050-1071)
- Military person (Portugal )
- Born in the 9th century
- Died 873
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