Pelayo Fernandez de Toroño

Pelayo Curvo was a Galician nobleman active between 1128 and 1173. Family Pelayo was a son of Fernando Yáñez. His wife was María Garcés. In the , she is called María Marañón. According to the Historia Compostellana, she was a niece of Archbishop Diego Gelmírez. Together they had four children: Gonzalo Páes, Sancha Páes, María Páes and Teresa Páes. According to the Livro de Linhagens of Pedro de Barcelos, the troubadour Pedro Rodríguez de Palmeira died of love for María Páes. Career Pelayo is traceable in the historical record from 1128, when he was serving as the archbishop's merino. In that year, García Pérez de Traba and his followers robbed some merchants who had come to Padrón from England and Lotharingia to sell their wares in the market of Santiago de Compostela. According to the Historia Compostellana, the archbishop sent Pelayo at the head of a group of soldiers to recover the loot. The robbers were confronted in the mountains, defeated in combat and the loot recovered and restored to the merchants.