Elvira Menendez
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Elvira Menéndez, of the Galician comital house, was queen of Alfonso V of León and mother of his heirs.
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*** UPDATE - READ FIRST (15 Sep 2026): the ascent described below as a floor / end of line / note-only HAS SINCE BEEN WIRED - parents (or father) are now in the tree; see the dated layer at the END of this note for the sources, grades and any loops closed. The opening text is kept as audit trail. *** ELVIRA MENENDEZ (d.921), queen of Ordono II of Leon; mother of Ramiro II (our line). Opens the counts of GALICIA (her father Hermenegildo Gutierrez), note-only. Standard well-documented medieval royal genealogy per the cited authorities; contested rungs note-only, not hardened. || PARENTS WIRED 14 Sep 2026: HERMENEGILDO GUTIERREZ, Count in Galicia (reconqueror of Coimbra, 878), by ERMESINDA GATONEZ (ES standard). ⚠ NOT the other Elvira Menendez (I99914, wife of Alfonso V, dau. of Menendo Gonzalez) - two women, two DIFFERENT documented fathers now wired, so the never-conflate ruling is built into the data.