Suero Méndez de Maia "El Bueno"
- Marriage (1): Gótrode Moñiz
- Marriage (2): Ervillida Núñez
 Noted events in his life were:
• Web Reference:
Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, Protuguese Nobility
Familia de Bragnanza
Fernando Mendez de Bragança was the son of Mendo Alão de Bragança. Fernando married Teresa Soares, daughter of Suero Mendes de Maya and his wife Ervillida Núñez. The Nobiliario of Pedro Conde de Barcelos names "Goda Soarez, Gontrode muger de Ayres Perez de Traba, Teresa Soarez, Elvira, Mayor, Monjas" as the children of "Suero Mendez el Bueno de Maya" and his second wife "Ervillida Nuñez", recording in a later passage that "Fernan Mendez el Viejo" married "Teresa Soarez" [Os Livro de Linhagens, I, Livro Velho, Portugaliæ Monumenta Historica, Scriptores, Vol. I, Fasc. II, p. 165].
• Web Reference:
Soeiro Mendes da Maia was the son of Mendo Gonçalves da Maia, 3rd lord of Maia, and of Leodegúndia Soares Tainha, daughter of Soeiro Guedes and of Leodeguindia Tainha. He married Gontrode Moniz and their children were:
• Paio Soares da Maia married Chamoa Gomes, daughter of Gomes Nunes de Pombeiro and Elvira Perez de Trava
• Godo Soares da Maia (m. 1133) the wife of Paio Peres 'Romeo', son of Pedro Trutesendes
• Mário Soares da Maia (1045-1065), who is not mentioned by the books of lineages, the father of another Soeiro Mendes, Gonçalo Mendes da Maia, the 'Lidador', Paio Mendes da Maia, archbishop of Braga, Goina and Elvira.
• Aurovelido, deceased before 1098.
• Reference:
Francisco Antonio de Alarcón, Nobiliario del Conde de Barcelos, Don Pedro, Hijo del Rey Don Dionis de Portugal, p. 118
Suero Mendes el Bueno married Gótrode Urraca Monis, the daughter of conde don Moniño de Maia, whose sister was reina doña Teresa de Portugal, and Gótrode was the mother of don Paio Soarez and Gotina Soarez
Suero Memdes married a second time to doña Ervillida Núñez from Asturias. Their children were Goda Soares, Gontrode, the wife of Ayres Peres de Traba, Teresa Soares, Elvira and Mayor, the last two became nuns.
Suero married Gótrode Moñiz, daughter of Conde Moniño de Maia and Unknown.
Suero next married Ervillida Núñez.
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