House Mendoza
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The house of Mendoza ( Spanish Casa de Mendoza ) was a widespread and historically significant family dynasty in medieval and early modern Spain . It originally came from the small town of Mendoza (now a suburb of the city of Vitoria-Gasteiz ) in the province of Álava in the Basque Country ; their center of power was later in what is now the province of Guadalajara .
title
Señor de Mendoza (around 1160), Count of Manzanares el Real (1445), Margrave of Santillana (1448), Count of Tendilla (1465), Duke of El Infantado (1475), Count of Saldaña , (1479), Count of Cid (1492), Margrave of Mondéjar (1512), Margrave of Montes Claros (1530), Margrave of Cañete (1530), Duke of Francavilla (1555), Margrave of Almazán (1576)
history
The line consisting of knights of lower nobility ( hidalgos ) had its origin in the 11th century with Íñigo López († 1076), the first landlord (señor) of the Vizcaya region. One of his successors, Íñigo López de Mendoza, was the builder of the castle (torre) at the beginning of the 13th century . The rise of the family at the Castilian court was slow but steady - Pedro González de Mendoza († 1385) contributed to the growing importance and prosperity of the family and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza († 1404) was already Grand Admiral .
In 1445 the county (condado) Real de Manzanares was created, whose first title holder Iñigo López de Mendoza († 1458), the 11th Señor de Mendoza , was. The Cardinal Pedro González de Mendoza († 1495), was chancellor at the court of King Henry IV of Castile. And since the death of his father (1458) head of the family; he was also a supporter and advisor to Queen Isabella I and took part in the surrender of Granada on January 2, 1492 .
literature
- Helen Nader: Los Mendoza y el Renacimiento Español. Diputación Provincial, Guadalajara 1985, ISBN 84-505-3156-X .
