Íñigo López de Mendoza y Quiñones

Íñigo López de Mendoza y Quiñones, fictional portrait (19th century)

Íñigo López de Mendoza y Quiñones (* approx. 1442 ; † July 20, 1515 ), Marquis of Mondéjar ( Spanish Marqués de Mondéjar ) and Count of Tendilla ( Spanish Conde de Tendilla ), was a Spanish nobleman and politician.

Life

After his childhood and youth in Guadalajara he participated in the conquest of the emirate of Granada . For his services he was appointed fortress commander of the Alhambra and general captain of the new kingdom of Granada after the conquest .

Mendoza was intelligent and educated and promoted important contemporary humanists such as: B. Peter Martyr of Anghiera . Mendoza's correspondence from 1504 to 1515 is one of the most important contemporary collections of letters.

progeny

From 1512, his son Luis Hurtado de Mendoza y Pacheco increasingly took over the official business and succeeded him as captain general after his death in 1515 .
Since his son Antonio de Mendoza was ambassador and viceroy of New Spain (1535–1550) and Peru (1551–1552).

literature

Jiménez Estrella, Antonio: "López de Mendoza y Quiñones, Íñigo", in: Real Academia de la Historia (ed.): Diccionario Biográfico Español . Volume 30. Madrid 2012, pp. 608-610.

Individual evidence

↑ Juan Manuel Martín García: Para el rey nuestro señor ... "Fernando el Católico, el conde de Tendilla y la cultura de su tiempo . In: Tiempos modernos: Revista Electrónica de Historia Moderna . Volume 8 , no. 34 , 2017, ISSN 1699-7778 , p. 167–201 (Spanish, [1] [accessed August 1, 2019]).

personal data
SURNAME	López de Mendoza y Quiñones, Íñigo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Spanish nobleman and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1442
DATE OF DEATH	July 20, 1515

[1] Juan Manuel Martín García: Para el rey nuestro señor ... "Fernando el Católico, el conde de Tendilla y la cultura de su tiempo . In: Tiempos modernos: Revista Electrónica de Historia Moderna . Volume 8 , no. 34 , 2017, ISSN 1699-7778 , p. 167–201 (Spanish, [1] [accessed August 1, 2019]).