Ruy López de Dávalos
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Ruy López de Dávalos, a.k.a. Rui López Dávalos, (Ubeda
, province of Jaén, Spain, 1357 - in exile, Valencia, Spain, 1428), 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 Castile
and John II of Castile
. He was very attached to king Henry III's uncle, Ferdinand of Antequera, afterwards elected king Ferdinand I of Aragon
, king 1412-1416. He was attached then to one of Ferdinand's troublesome sons, Infante Henry of Aragon
(1400–1445).
to capture his young cousin, king John II of Castile
, (1405–1454), and get himself married to his cousin Catherine
, John II's sister. The fact that his father Prince Fernando de Antequera had been promoted to elected king of Aragon in 1412, and the still very extensive properties of his father in Castile, prompted him to impose his (contemptuous) will on his rather quiet cousin, the king John II. Further Prince Henry of Aragn had married king John II of Castile's sister, Catherine, being provided there and then with extensive properties and money which made Prince Henry, probably, to be above everything and everybody around him.
The meddling of king Ferdinand I of Aragon
's children, known as the Infantes of Aragon
; Henry, Peter, Alfonso (king Alfonso V
1416-1458) and John (later king John II of Aragon
, 1458–1479), plus the behavior of their sisters, Catherine, Queen Consort of Castile, and Eleanor of Aragon, Queen of Portugal, seems to have brought havoc to the Iberian Peninsula.
Eldest brother, king Alfonso V, left the Iberian Peninsula around 1430, leaving his wife, Maria of Castile
, (1401–1458), the sister of king John II of Castile, and his meddling and impulsive brother, John, later king John II of Aragon, to live in Naples, Italy, doing military expeditions to conquer "manu militari" former fiefs of the Aragonese Crown and leading a sexual life there without bothering at all with his Queen, Marie of Castile, king John II of Castile's sister and having in Naples bastard royal children with a few women from the Italian nobility did not help either.
who helped king John II of Castile to fight hard and many times successfully against his scourging cousins, males and females, in 1423.
They questioned however the nobility and the ancestry of faithful Álvaro, forgetting that the "Trastámara
" royal families ruling in Castile
and in Aragon then and there, and the questionable grips of feudal power of the now royal family, the Enriquez family, could trace their roots, less than 50 years earlier, 1369, in bastardy, violence and questionable powers, including the assassination of "legal" king Peter of Castile in Montiel
, in March 1369. Not to mention their dangerous marriages involving closed endogamy relationships.
To be brief, Alvaro let it be known López Dávalos negotiations with the Muslim subjects of the vassal Kingdom of Granada, quite near of the Murcia
territories held by the Constable, whether they were real or just a political concoctions, to become thus the undisputed protector of the young king of Castile and getting rid of the close involvement of López Dávalos with the Aragonese cousins of the king. The trick worked and Rui López Dávalos had to go into the Kingdom of Aragon
, dying with the weight of a discredited life between 1423 and 1428.
politician Hernando Dávalos, the son of a certain Ruy López Dávalos and Teresa Vélez de Guevara, grandson of a certain Hernándo López de Avalos, (Dávalos), and Mª Carrillo y Palomeque, and the great grandson of Count of Ribadeo abd Constable of Castile till 1423, Ruy López Dávalos, the great great grandson of Diego López Dávalos who together with brother Pedro López Dávalos came from Mencía Dávalos, daughter of Lope Fernández Dávalos, Mayor of the town of Ubeda
, Province of Jaén), in the year 1300.
This year 1300 people in Ubeda came from Basque-Navarrese settlers in Andalusia since about the 1230s, the well known family of the López de Haro - Díaz de Haro, lords of Biscay between about 1076 and the middle of the 14th century.
Hernando Dávalos made part of the well documented Toledo "Comuneros
" fighting against the extra tax contributions, circa 1518, asked for by king Charles I of Spain (Holy Roman Emperor
Charles V) to bend the wishes of the German Electors in his wishes of becoming a Holy Roman Emperor. His properties in Toledo were seized and sold publicily to pay for the military efforts trying to make them obedient to 18 year old king Charles, born in Ghent, Flanders, an aspiring, and successful, Holy Roman Emperor.
A few male descendants of the family emigrated earlier to Italy, including Malta
island, around 1430 and became there important people of the nobility for over 400 years or so, using names approaching the Spanish spelling of the name, but no necessarily with the same exact graphical signs. The genealogical descent is as follows:
1. Ruy Lopez d'Avalos, Count of Ribadeo, Constable of Castile (1357–1421), married firstly to Maria Gutierrez de Fontechecha; secondly 1395 to Elvira de Guevara; married thirdly to Constanza de Tovar y Toledo, de Los Senores de tierra de la Reina
1.1. (first marriage), Pietro D'Avolas, Pedro Dávalos in Spanish, Señor de Valhenoso, Avinante, Rosales
y Villarrodrigo
, married Maria de Orozco Suarez de Figueroa
1.2. Diego D'Avolas, Diego Dávalos in Spanish, Señor de Valhenoso, Villarrodrigo
y otros ..., married Leonor de Ayala y Castañeda de los Señores de Escamilla
1.3. Leonor Dávalos, married to Men Rodriguez, Señor de Santisteban del Puerto
, later became 1st Conde de Santisteban del Puerto, the ancestors of the Ducal house of Santisteban del Puerto.
1.4. (Second marriage) Diego Dávalos de Guevara, married to Isabel de Castilla y Castro, no issue.
1.5 Giovanni de Guevara, Juan de Guevara, Secreto of Malta
island and Gozo
island. In 1460, married Paola Inguanez, Paula Iñiguez????, de los barones malteses de Djar il-Biniet, dei Baroni di Djar il-Bniet., with issue.
Guara, Daguara, etc. are Italian approaches in the manuscripts to try to spell the Basque-Spanish name Guevara.
.
Úbeda
Úbeda is a town in the province of Jaén in Spain's autonomous community of Andalusia, with some 35,600 inhabitants. Both this city and the neighboring city of Baeza benefited from extensive patronage in the early 16th century resulting in the construction of a series of Renaissance style palaces...
, province of Jaén, Spain, 1357 - in exile, Valencia, Spain, 1428), 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
Adelantado
Adelantado was a military title held by some Spanish conquistadores of the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries.Adelantados were granted directly by the Monarch the right to become governors and justices of a specific region, which they charged with conquering, in exchange for funding and organizing the...
of Murcia
Murcia
-History:It is widely believed that Murcia's name is derived from the Latin words of Myrtea or Murtea, meaning land of Myrtle , although it may also be a derivation of the word Murtia, which would mean Murtius Village...
, 1396, Constable of Castile
Constable of Castile
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...
, 1400–1423, during the reigns of kings Henry III of Castile
Henry III of Castile
Henry III KG , sometimes known as Henry the Sufferer or Henry the Infirm , was the son of John I and Eleanor of Aragon, and succeeded him as King of the Castilian Crown in 1390....
and John II of Castile
John II of Castile
John II was King of Castile from 1406 to 1454.He was the son of Henry III of Castile and his wife Catherine of Lancaster, daughter of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster by Constance of Castile, daughter of King Peter of Castile.-Regency:He succeeded his father on 25 December 1406, at the age of...
. He was very attached to king Henry III's uncle, Ferdinand of Antequera, afterwards elected king Ferdinand I of Aragon
Ferdinand I of Aragon
Ferdinand I called of Antequera and also the Just or the Honest) was king of Aragon, Valencia, Majorca, Sardinia and Corsica and king of Sicily, duke of Athens and Neopatria, and count of Barcelona, Roussillon and Cerdanya...
, king 1412-1416. He was attached then to one of Ferdinand's troublesome sons, Infante Henry of Aragon
Infante Henry, Duke of Villena
Infante Henry of Aragon , 1st Duke of Villena, 4th Count of Alburquerque, 32nd Count of Ampurias, was the Grand Master of the Order of Santiago.- Childhood :...
(1400–1445).
Infante Henry of Aragon contemptousness with his cousin king John II of Castile
In November 1420, Infante Henry of Aragon headed a plot in TordesillasTordesillas
Tordesillas is a town and municipality in the province of Valladolid, Castile and León, central Spain.It is located 25 km southwest of the provincial capital, Valladolid at an elevation of 704 meters. The population was c. 9,000 in 2009....
to capture his young cousin, king John II of Castile
John II of Castile
John II was King of Castile from 1406 to 1454.He was the son of Henry III of Castile and his wife Catherine of Lancaster, daughter of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster by Constance of Castile, daughter of King Peter of Castile.-Regency:He succeeded his father on 25 December 1406, at the age of...
, (1405–1454), and get himself married to his cousin Catherine
Infanta Catherine, Duchess of Villena
Infanta Catherine of Castile was suo jure Duchess of Villena and, by marriage, Infanta of Aragon, Countess of Alburquerque and Countess of Ampurias....
, John II's sister. The fact that his father Prince Fernando de Antequera had been promoted to elected king of Aragon in 1412, and the still very extensive properties of his father in Castile, prompted him to impose his (contemptuous) will on his rather quiet cousin, the king John II. Further Prince Henry of Aragn had married king John II of Castile's sister, Catherine, being provided there and then with extensive properties and money which made Prince Henry, probably, to be above everything and everybody around him.
The meddling of king Ferdinand I of Aragon
Ferdinand I of Aragon
Ferdinand I called of Antequera and also the Just or the Honest) was king of Aragon, Valencia, Majorca, Sardinia and Corsica and king of Sicily, duke of Athens and Neopatria, and count of Barcelona, Roussillon and Cerdanya...
's children, known as the Infantes of Aragon
Infantes of Aragon
The Infantes of Aragon is an appellation commonly used by Spanish historians to refer to a group of 15th C. infantes of the House of Trastámara, specifically the sons of King Ferdinand I of Aragon and his wife Leonor Urraca, Countess of Albuquerque:* Infante Alfonso - became Alfonso V of Aragon...
; Henry, Peter, Alfonso (king Alfonso V
Alfonso V of Aragon
Alfonso the Magnanimous KG was the King of Aragon , Valencia , Majorca, Sardinia and Corsica , and Sicily and Count of Barcelona from 1416 and King of Naples from 1442 until his death...
1416-1458) and John (later king John II of Aragon
John II of Aragon
John II the Faithless, also known as the Great was the King of Aragon from 1458 until 1479, and jure uxoris King of Navarre from 1425 until his death. He was the son of Ferdinand I and his wife Eleanor of Alburquerque...
, 1458–1479), plus the behavior of their sisters, Catherine, Queen Consort of Castile, and Eleanor of Aragon, Queen of Portugal, seems to have brought havoc to the Iberian Peninsula.
Eldest brother, king Alfonso V, left the Iberian Peninsula around 1430, leaving his wife, Maria of Castile
Maria of Castile
Maria of Castile was Queen consort of Aragon and Naples as the spouse of Alfonso V of Aragon. Maria acted as the regent of Aragon during the reign of her spouse, as he was absent during most of his reign; her regencies lasted between 1420 and 1423 and between 1432 and 1458...
, (1401–1458), the sister of king John II of Castile, and his meddling and impulsive brother, John, later king John II of Aragon, to live in Naples, Italy, doing military expeditions to conquer "manu militari" former fiefs of the Aragonese Crown and leading a sexual life there without bothering at all with his Queen, Marie of Castile, king John II of Castile's sister and having in Naples bastard royal children with a few women from the Italian nobility did not help either.
Sorting out Henry of Aragon by Álvaro de Luna
There was a loyal but ambitious, albeit modest Castilian nobleman, a bastard from Aragonese nobility stock, known as Álvaro de LunaÁlvaro de Luna
Álvaro de Luna y Jarana , Duke of Trujillo, 1st Count of San Esteban de Gormaz, was a Spanish politician...
who helped king John II of Castile to fight hard and many times successfully against his scourging cousins, males and females, in 1423.
They questioned however the nobility and the ancestry of faithful Álvaro, forgetting that the "Trastámara
Trastámara
The House of Trastámara was a dynasty of kings in the Iberian Peninsula, which first governed in Castile beginning in 1369 before expanding its rule into Aragón, Navarre and Naples.They were a cadet illegitimate line of the House of Burgundy....
" royal families ruling in 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...
and in Aragon then and there, and the questionable grips of feudal power of the now royal family, the Enriquez family, could trace their roots, less than 50 years earlier, 1369, in bastardy, violence and questionable powers, including the assassination of "legal" king Peter of Castile in Montiel
Montiel
Montiel is a municipality in the province of Ciudad Real, Castile-La Mancha, Spain.The ruined castle on the hilltop above the town was the refuge for Peter of Castile after his defeat by the forces of Henry of Trastamara at the Battle of Montiel. He was lured into a meeting by Bertrand du Guesclin,...
, in March 1369. Not to mention their dangerous marriages involving closed endogamy relationships.
Murcia
-History:It is widely believed that Murcia's name is derived from the Latin words of Myrtea or Murtea, meaning land of Myrtle , although it may also be a derivation of the word Murtia, which would mean Murtius Village...
territories held by the Constable, whether they were real or just a political concoctions, to become thus the undisputed protector of the young king of Castile and getting rid of the close involvement of López Dávalos with the Aragonese cousins of the king. The trick worked and Rui López Dávalos had to go into the Kingdom of Aragon
Kingdom of Aragon
The Kingdom of Aragon was a medieval and early modern kingdom in the Iberian Peninsula, corresponding to the modern-day autonomous community of Aragon, in Spain...
, dying with the weight of a discredited life between 1423 and 1428.
The outcome of the exiled López Dávalos family after 1428
16th century ToledoToledo, Spain
Toledo's Alcázar became renowned in the 19th and 20th centuries as a military academy. At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936 its garrison was famously besieged by Republican forces.-Economy:...
politician Hernando Dávalos, the son of a certain Ruy López Dávalos and Teresa Vélez de Guevara, grandson of a certain Hernándo López de Avalos, (Dávalos), and Mª Carrillo y Palomeque, and the great grandson of Count of Ribadeo abd Constable of Castile till 1423, Ruy López Dávalos, the great great grandson of Diego López Dávalos who together with brother Pedro López Dávalos came from Mencía Dávalos, daughter of Lope Fernández Dávalos, Mayor of the town of Ubeda
Úbeda
Úbeda is a town in the province of Jaén in Spain's autonomous community of Andalusia, with some 35,600 inhabitants. Both this city and the neighboring city of Baeza benefited from extensive patronage in the early 16th century resulting in the construction of a series of Renaissance style palaces...
, Province of Jaén), in the year 1300.
This year 1300 people in Ubeda came from Basque-Navarrese settlers in Andalusia since about the 1230s, the well known family of the López de Haro - Díaz de Haro, lords of Biscay between about 1076 and the middle of the 14th century.
Hernando Dávalos made part of the well documented Toledo "Comuneros
Comuneros
Comunero is a Spanish term with several meanings; literally, it means "member of a community", but it has other connotations as well, depending on context...
" fighting against the extra tax contributions, circa 1518, asked for by king Charles I of Spain (Holy Roman Emperor
Holy Roman Emperor
The Holy Roman Emperor is a term used by historians to denote a medieval ruler who, as German King, had also received the title of "Emperor of the Romans" from the Pope...
Charles V) to bend the wishes of the German Electors in his wishes of becoming a Holy Roman Emperor. His properties in Toledo were seized and sold publicily to pay for the military efforts trying to make them obedient to 18 year old king Charles, born in Ghent, Flanders, an aspiring, and successful, Holy Roman Emperor.
A few male descendants of the family emigrated earlier to Italy, including Malta
Malta
Malta , officially known as the Republic of Malta , is a Southern European country consisting of an archipelago situated in the centre of the Mediterranean, south of Sicily, east of Tunisia and north of Libya, with Gibraltar to the west and Alexandria to the east.Malta covers just over in...
island, around 1430 and became there important people of the nobility for over 400 years or so, using names approaching the Spanish spelling of the name, but no necessarily with the same exact graphical signs. The genealogical descent is as follows:
1. Ruy Lopez d'Avalos, Count of Ribadeo, Constable of Castile (1357–1421), married firstly to Maria Gutierrez de Fontechecha; secondly 1395 to Elvira de Guevara; married thirdly to Constanza de Tovar y Toledo, de Los Senores de tierra de la Reina
1.1. (first marriage), Pietro D'Avolas, Pedro Dávalos in Spanish, Señor de Valhenoso, Avinante, Rosales
Rosales
Rosales is an order of flowering plants. It is one of the four orders in the nitrogen fixing clade of the fabids and is sister to a clade consisting of Fagales and Cucurbitales. It contains about 7700 species, distributed into about 260 genera. Rosales comprises nine families, the type family...
y Villarrodrigo
Villarrodrigo
Villarrodrigo is a city located in the province of Jaén, Spain. According to the 2005 census , the city has a population of 510 inhabitants....
, married Maria de Orozco Suarez de Figueroa
1.2. Diego D'Avolas, Diego Dávalos in Spanish, Señor de Valhenoso, Villarrodrigo
Villarrodrigo
Villarrodrigo is a city located in the province of Jaén, Spain. According to the 2005 census , the city has a population of 510 inhabitants....
y otros ..., married Leonor de Ayala y Castañeda de los Señores de Escamilla
Escamilla
Escamilla is a municipality located in the province of Guadalajara, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. According to the 2004 census , the municipality has a population of 105 inhabitants....
1.3. Leonor Dávalos, married to Men Rodriguez, Señor de Santisteban del Puerto
Santisteban del Puerto
Santisteban del Puerto is a city located in the province of Jaén, Spain. According to the 2005 census , the city has a population of 4840 inhabitants....
, later became 1st Conde de Santisteban del Puerto, the ancestors of the Ducal house of Santisteban del Puerto.
1.4. (Second marriage) Diego Dávalos de Guevara, married to Isabel de Castilla y Castro, no issue.
1.5 Giovanni de Guevara, Juan de Guevara, Secreto of Malta
Malta
Malta , officially known as the Republic of Malta , is a Southern European country consisting of an archipelago situated in the centre of the Mediterranean, south of Sicily, east of Tunisia and north of Libya, with Gibraltar to the west and Alexandria to the east.Malta covers just over in...
island and Gozo
Gozo
Gozo is a small island of the Maltese archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea. The island is part of the Southern European country of Malta; after the island of Malta itself, it is the second-largest island in the archipelago...
island. In 1460, married Paola Inguanez, Paula Iñiguez????, de los barones malteses de Djar il-Biniet, dei Baroni di Djar il-Bniet., with issue.
Guara, Daguara, etc. are Italian approaches in the manuscripts to try to spell the Basque-Spanish name Guevara.
Some references
- http://www.fmschmitt.com/travels/spain/Jaen_province/Ubeda
- Ruy López Dávalos, adelantado de Murcia y condestable de Castilla, Ubeda Información, nº 468, 28 de marzo de 2009, pags 2 y 3.