Salvador González (11th century)

Salvador González (died 1067) was a Castilian nobleman active in the regions of La Bureba and Burgos in the middle third of the eleventh century. His origins are obscure, and he thus stands at the head of his lineage, the Salvadórez. He remained loyal to the ruler of Castile throughout his career, even when it meant a loss of position after the Bureba was acquired by neighbouring Pamplona.

Although the name of Salvador's father is indicated by his patronymic (González means "son of Gonzalo"), modern historians disagree on his identity. As a result, Salvador is the earliest known member of his lineage, called by consequence the Salvadórez (or Salvadores). According to Margarita Torres, Gonzalo was probably Gonzalo García, son of Count García Fernández of Castile and Countess Ava of Ribagorza. Gonzalo Martínez Díez regards this descent as impossible.Justo Pérez de Urbel writes that the lineage probably descends from Fernán's second wife, Urraca Garcés. There is some onomastic evidence to support Pérez de Urbel's position. A document dated to 994 is subscribed by one Salvador Pérez, son of Pedro Fernández, a possible son of Fernán González and Urraca Garcés.

The Salvadórez are also thought to be related to the house of Lara, perhaps through Salvador's brother, Count Munio González. Munio's son, Gonzalo Muñoz, is the earliest member of the lineage of the Laras.

Sometime before 1047 (probably before 1042), he was married to Mumadona Álvarez, possibly a sister of Nuño Álvarez de Carazo. They had two sons, Gonzalo Salvadórez and Álvaro Salvadórez, named after his father and her father, respectively, and third son, Martín.

Salvador appears in the historical record for the first time when he signed as a witness a certain Doña Goto's formal adoption as her heirs of King Sancho Garcés III of Pamplona and his queen, Muniadona, on 1 January 1031. Goto's entire estate consisted of some 38 villas, many in the Bureba. The first charter in which he appears is thus suggestive of Salvador's power and position within the Bureba. He may have held the region as a tenancy on behalf of the crown, as his descendants later would. Doña Goto's adoption took place shortly after the death of the last count of Castile, García Sánchez, in 1028, when King Sancho took over the county and imposed his son Fernando, García's nephew, as count. Salvador and his brother Munio were loyal supporters of King Sancho. In 1033, Salvador and his brother confirmed the king's donation to the monastery of San Salvador de Oña, with which the Salvadórez were to maintain a strong connexion.

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