Rodrigo González de la Puebla

Rodrigo González de la Puebla (* around 1450 in Toledo ; † 1525 ) was the ambassador of Ferdinand II of Aragon to Henry VII of England from 1485 to 1489 .

Life

His father was Johan González de la Puebla.

Order of Santiago

Rodrigo González de la Puebla had entered the Santiagoorden , which was directed by Ferdinand II .

In 1476 Ferdinand II applied to the Holy See for an unlimited appointment to head the Order of Santiago. As part of the Reconquista , the Council of the Order of Santiago developed into the Consejo Real . A corresponding papal bull appointed Ferdinand I, as the thirteenth elder, chairman of the order council. Ferdinand II appointed for this government body, Doctor Antonio Rodríguez de Alíllo and González zu Oidores , Doctor Juan Díaz de Alcocer as Secretario (Minister), Ginés de Roble as Chancellor and Pedro de Orozco as Public Prosecutor.

In 1487 Rodrigo González de la Puebla, Juan de Sepúlveda and Diego de Guevara were in London to negotiate the marriage contract of Catherine of Aragón and Arthur Tudor . In 1489 he became Ambassador to the Court of St James’s and thus headed the second permanent representation abroad of the government of Spain, which had been established after the representation at the Holy See. With a three-year hiatus, Puebla was in England for more than 20 years.

Treaty of Okyng

St Peter's Church, Okyng

After the court of Castile was moved from Valencia to Orihuela in 1488 , the Catholic royal couple traveled to Murcia and received envoys from Henry VII of England. The latter had accepted the proposal for a bilateral state treaty submitted by Puebla. The ambassadors of Henry VII negotiated a connection between the royal houses through a marriage of Catherine of Aragón with Arthur Tudor , a political alliance, which primarily aimed at the independence of Brittany and a trade agreement, which above all, legal security for the Spanish Church in London was looking for. On April 30, 1488 Juan de Sepúlveda was sent as a further envoy to London to further specify the state treaties. In 1490 the contract of Woking Palace between Maximilian I , Henry VII , Isabella I and Ferdinand II was signed by Puebla.

In 1495 González negotiated with Henry VII, and it was agreed that Spain would mediate in the territories of Burgundy .

In 1500 Spanish traders in France and England form a stable trading power. Ferdinand II participates in the trade in salt from La Mata and Ibiza and Isabella I of Castile invested in ships on the Ruta de Flandes . All trade on the Ruta de Flandes (Ostend, Amberes, Santander, Burgos, Seville) was controlled by Burgos. Henry VII protested that the immoderate privileges the Spaniards had acquired through the treaty would allow them to wage a ruinous competition against his subjects without his being able to respond adequately, reported Puebla. A Spanish pragmatica (rule) of 1500 banned non-Spaniards from carrying cargo on Spanish ships.

Puebela, reported in a letter dated January 11, 1500, to the Catholic royal couple that Philip I wanted to use his sister to expel his sister-in-law Catherine of Aragón from the inheritance of the British crown, in which Margaret of Austria (1480-1530) , widowed since October 4, 1497, would have married Arthur Tudor . The ambassadors in London Puebla and Pedro de Ayala advised that Katharina von Aragón's trip to England be brought forward. Puebla received 1,500 instructions in letters dated January 20 and 27. He was supposed to point out to Henry VII the danger that the Ottomans, as rulers of Lepanto, pose for seafaring in the Mediterranean and propose a defense alliance for Spain, Portugal and England for the Mediterranean area. The Catholic royal couple sent Fadrique Álvarez de Toledo, 2nd Duke of Alba . In May 1500 they gave him instructions not to speak to the Spanish ambassadors. The dangers of winter should be given as the reason for Katarina not traveling. Two different versions of the marriage-state treaty were sent to Puebla. The second version was supplemented in chapter three by a declaration that the father Ludwig XII. and Philip I would receive no help other than the defense of their house.

Puebla was suspected of betraying the Catholic royal couple. On April 12, 1500, Puebla received his documents and his accreditation letter , which the Catholic royal couple had sent him in January and February 1500, and used them to visit Henry VII. Puebla succeeded in signing the treaty with Henry VII while he was planning a trip to the continent. Portugal was included in the State Treaty as an ally. In the meantime, Fadrique Álvarez de Toledo, 2nd Duke of Alba, had been instructed to take up an embassy post in Brussels, but when Henry VII crossed the English Channel on May 8, 1500, he had not even crossed the Spanish borders.

Puebla had developed a cipher for its diplomatic mail .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hidalguia, La revista de genealogia, nobleza y armas, ano XXVI septiembre-octubre 1978 num 150, Madrid, numero dedicado a las ordenes militares Españolas p. 814
2. ^ Garrett Mattingly , Renaissance diplomacy, p. 122
3. ↑ http://www2.dlc.ua.pt/classicos/Baza.pdf
4. ^ Treaty of Okyng Between Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, King Henry VII of England and the envoys of Castile, Queen Isabel I of Castile and king consort Ferdinand II of Aragon, by Ambassador in London Rodrigo Gonzalez de la Puebla
5. ↑ Luis Suárez Fernández , 1500: un giro radical en la política de los Reyes Católicos , Departamento de Historia Medieval, Universidad Complutense: Servicio de Publicaciones
6. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 26, 2009 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. 

predecessor	Office	successor
Jofre de Sasiola	Spanish ambassador to England 1485–1489	Fadrique Álvarez de Toledo, 2nd Duke of Alba