History
Monterroso was the seat of an important tenencia in medieval Galicia. Among its known tenants were:
- Suero Vermúdez (c.1100)
- Gutierre Vermúdez (1112)
- Munio Peláez (1112–16)
- Fernando Pérez de Traba (1140–53)
- Gonzalo Fernández de Traba (1157–60), son of the former
- Fernando González de Traba (1160–63)
- Rodrigo Álvarez (1168)
- Gómez González de Traba (1170–73), first time
- Gómez González de Manzanedo (1173)
- Gómez González de Traba (1189–1200), second time
