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Gonzalo last appears in a document of 25 February 915, through which he donated Cótar to the
Monastery of San Pedro de Cardeña. He probably died between that date and May 919 when Munio Vélaz, possibly a son of Vela Jiménez, appears as Count of Álava. There is no record of Gonzalo having any
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Muniadona and Gonzalo's wife, Flámula, were sisters, but the two charters on which he based this hypothesis are clearly spurious. Although the founding of the monastery is attributed in later historiography to Count Fernán González, its actual founder was Count Gonzalo Téllez.
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Gonzalo Téllez and his wife Flámula appear in the foundational document of the
Monastery of San Pedro de Arlanza on 12 January 913. The charter was also signed by Muniadona, the mother of Count Fernán González, with her son Ramiro. Historian
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In a charter dated 25 October 913, where
Gonzalo and Flámula made a donation to the abbot of the Monastery of San Jorge, San Juan y San Martín de Cerezo, he appears as governing Cerezo (
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Gonzalo's estates were situated in the Pedernales area, an uninhabited land a short distance from Burgos that was later incorporated into the current town of
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seized the opportunity and in 913 went to the eastern march of the
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