Constable of Castile
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Constable of Castile was a title created by John I
, King of Castile
in 1382, to substitute the title Alférez Mayor del Reino. The constable was the second person in power in the kingdom, after the King, and his responsibility was to command the military in the absence of the ruler.
In 1473 Henry IV of Castile
made the title hereditary for the Velasco family and the Dukes of Frías. After these changes, the title ceased to have any military or administrative connotations, and was simply an honorific title.
John I of Castile
John I was the king of Crown of Castile, was the son of Henry II and of his wife Juana Manuel of Castile, daughter of Juan Manuel, Prince of Villena, head of a younger branch of the royal house of Castile...
, King of Castile
Crown of Castile
The Crown of Castile was a medieval and modern state in the Iberian Peninsula that formed in 1230 as a result of the third and definitive union of the crowns and parliaments of the kingdoms of Castile and León upon the accession of the then King Ferdinand III of Castile to the vacant Leonese throne...
in 1382, to substitute the title Alférez Mayor del Reino. The constable was the second person in power in the kingdom, after the King, and his responsibility was to command the military in the absence of the ruler.
In 1473 Henry IV of Castile
Henry IV of Castile
Henry IV , King of the Crown of Castile, nicknamed the Impotent , was the last of the weak late medieval kings of Castile...
made the title hereditary for the Velasco family and the Dukes of Frías. After these changes, the title ceased to have any military or administrative connotations, and was simply an honorific title.
List of Constables of Castile
- Alonso de Aragón, natural son of Ferdinand II of AragonFerdinand II of AragonFerdinand the Catholic was King of Aragon , Sicily , Naples , Valencia, Sardinia, and Navarre, Count of Barcelona, jure uxoris King of Castile and then regent of that country also from 1508 to his death, in the name of...
- Pedro Enrique de Trastámara, son of Fadrique Alfonso of CastileFadrique Alfonso of CastileDon Fadrique Alfonso of Castile, 1st Señor de Haro , 25th Master of the Order of Santiago , was the fifth illegitimate child of Alfonso XI of Castile and Eleanor of Guzman. He was born in Seville....
- Ruy López de DávalosRuy López de DávalosRuy López de Dávalos, a.k.a. Rui López Dávalos, , Count of Ribadeo since it was sold by the first count, Frenchman Pierre de Villaines, who received it from Henry II of Castile on 20 December 1369, Adelantado of Murcia, 1396, Constable of Castile, 1400–1423, during the reigns of kings Henry III of...
- Álvaro de LunaÁlvaro de LunaÁlvaro de Luna y Jarana , Duke of Trujillo, 1st Count of San Esteban de Gormaz, was a Spanish politician...
- Miguel Lucas de Iranzo
- Pedro Fernández de Velasco, 2nd Count of Haro