Elvira Menéndez, (
Portuguese and
Galician:
Elvira Mendes; –2 December 1022), was a member of the highest ranks of the nobility of Portugal and
Galicia as the daughter of count
Menendo González,
Count of Portucale and his wife Toda (also known as Tutadomna, Tota),. She became
Queen Consort of
León as the wife of King
Alfonso V with whom she was raised as a child. Her father, Menendo, was a member of the
curia regis of King
Bermudo II of León and the tutor and
co-regent, jointly with Queen
Elvira Garcia, of
Infante Alfonso, who later ruled as
Alfonso V of León.