Velasquita Ramírez
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Velasquita Ramírez was Queen consort of León as the first wife of King Bermudo II and mother of infanta Cristina Bermúdez, wife of Ordoño Ramírez.
Monastery of San Pelayo where Velasquita lived as a nun.
Elvira García was Queen of León by marriage to King Bermudo II, and regent of Leon jointly with Count Menendo González during the minority of her son Alfonso V from 999 until 1008.
Velasquita Ramírez
…They appear together for the last time at the end of 988 and she was probably repudiated a year later in 989. In 991, King Bermudo and his second wife, Elvira García, confirm a charter together for the first time. Velasquita left the court and settled in Oviedo with her daughter Cristina, and became a nun at the…
Elvira Garcia
Pantheon of the Kings at the Basilica de San Isidoro.