Juan Manuel de Villena de la Vega

Juan Manuel de Villena de la Vega , also called Juan Manuel, Señor de Belmonte († 1543 ) was a Castilian nobleman and politician at the beginning of the 16th century.

He entered royal service in Flanders and gained the trust of Philip the Fair († 1506) during his brief reign. He became “Contador mayor” of Castile, Vogt of Burgos , Segovia , Plasencia , Jaén and Atienza and other royal castles (“Alcázares”) - and in 1505 the first Spanish nobleman in the Order of the Golden Fleece .

After Philip's death, the dislike between Juan Manuel and Philip's father-in-law Ferdinand the Catholic led to Juan Manuel's flight to Flanders, where he was imprisoned. Philip's son Charles V freed him and again gave him important tasks, including an embassy to Rome, from which he returned in 1523, and an office in the Council of State.

family

Juan Manuel owned Belmonte de Campos in the Comarca Tierra de Campos (now the province of Palencia ) (but not the Castillo de Belmonte ( province of Cuenca ), which belonged to the Marqués de Villena). The connection between the family and Belmonte de Campos began in 1458 when another Juan Manuel ("Manuel" is part of the family name, not a first name), adviser to King Henry IV , bought the place. After his death in 1463 he was followed by his son of the same name as 2nd Señor de Belmonte.

According to one source, this was the adviser to Philip the Fair, but the age difference to Philip allows another source to be consulted, which sees him as the 4th Señor de Belmonte.

The first source reports that Juan Manuel married Catalina de Castilla in 1477, from whom he had nine children, including Pedro, Bishop of León 1523–1534 and then Archbishop of Santiago .

The second source sees him as the son of Juan Manuel de Villena Suárez de Figueroa and Aldonza de la Vega, married to Catalina de Rojas, from whom he had four sons: Lorenzo Manuel, Rodrigo Manuel, Pedro Manuel and Aldonza Manuel de Villena de Rojas. According to this source the order is:

A third source finally sees him - the knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece - under the name Juan Manuel de la Cerda as the husband of Juana de Figueroa and father of Maria Manuel de la Cerda, who in turn was married to Baudouin Bâtard de Bourgogne, an illegitimate Son of Duke Philip the Good of Burgundy (see family list of the House of Burgundy ) - information that is confusing from the matronyms . The second source in turn gives Baudouin's wife as Mariana Manuel de Villena de la Vega, the sister Juan Manuel de Villena de la Vega.

Footnotes

1. ↑ Note: Manuel is not the middle name, but part of the family name
2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from December 1, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ [1]  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , the website of the Manuel de Villena family  
4. ↑ Detlev Schwennicke, European Family Tables , Volume III.2 (1983) Plate 324
5. ↑ Schwennicke's information suggests a descent from the Burgundy-Ivrea family , whose branch line “Manuel” was owned by Villena, died out in 1361, but does not descend from the branch line “de la Cerda”