Echigues Goçoy was a direct descendant of Sueiro Belfaguer. He was the son of Vizoi Vizois (950 –?) and Munia Goçoy.
Echigues married to Araguta Gonçalves da Maia (985-?), daughter of Suero de Novellas (count of Castille) and Mayor Diaz (descendant of Diego Rodríguez Porcelos) in the year 1000,[5] with whom he had:[2][6]
Gomes Echigues (1010-1065) who married twice, first to Gontrode Moniz, daughter of Múnio Fernandez (1030-?) bastard son of Ferdinand I of León, and second to Goldregodo Sendines.
^D. António Caetano de Sousa, História Genealógica da Casa Real Portuguesa, Atlântida-Livraria Editora, Lda., 2.ª Edição, Coimbra, 1946, Tomo XII-P. I, p. 140
^José João da Conceição Gonçalves Mattoso, Ricos-Homens, Infanções e Cavaleiros, Guimarães Editores, 3.ª Edição, Lisboa, 1998, p. 47.