 The
Middle Age is Galicia's most brilliant period, when its cultural splendor
created one of the lyrical summits in humanity's history. The Traba
were during the XII and XIII centuries one of the Galician Kingdom's
most important supports. Actually the Traba was probably the
most powerful family in the peninsula. Though they came from and lived
in the Costa da Morte, they owned territories in other Galician and
foreign lands.
In the time of the Traba's greater splendor,
they crowned kings in Galicia and they even crowned Galician kings
in Leon's throne.The Traba were so powerful that the future kings
first had to be formed by them. This is the case of Afonso Reimundes,
Afonso V of Galicia, crowned king in 1111 by Pedro Froilaz, count
of Traba, and two years later ratified by Bishop Gelmirez.
King Afonso was to be later the king of Leon
(Alfonso VII of Leon in the Spanish official historiography, Afonso
V in Galician dynasty), causing a war between the Galicians and the
Spanish.
Later
on, Count Pedro Froilaz's son began a new dynasty taking the title
of Count of Trastamara. The name of Trastamara comes from an Iron
Age treba or population known as Celtici Supertamaricos, located
between Carnota and Ortigueira (Nemancos, Celtigos, Barcala, Vimianzo,
Dubra, Bergantinos...).
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