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About Gonzalo Muñoz de Coimbra
The County of Coimbra was a political entity consisting of the lands of Coimbra, Viseu, Lamego and Santa Maria da Feira, in modern Portugal. After 959 the Kingdom of León creates the County and specifically appoints Counts to this territory. The political environment was one of increasing aristocratic autonomy throughout western Iberia. Coimbra's rulers were frontier lords responsible for defense against al-Andalus while simultaneously pursuing their own dynastic interests. This continues up to 987 when the region is recaptured by the Moors of Abu Amir Al-Mansur, after which the line of Counts of Coimbra continues under Muslim domain. It ends when the city of Coimbra was permanently secured by the Christians in 1064, with the second creation of the County and Sisnando Davides being named as Count.
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