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Juan De Moncada Y De Tolça
Juan de Moncada y de Tolça (died after 1536) was a Spanish noble from the 16th century. He was 3rd count di Marmilla, 11th Sieur of Aitona and 1st count of Aitona since 1532, baron of Serós, Mequinenza and Soses, Sieur of Vallobar, Palma, Ador and Beniarche, 3rd baron of Llagostera. He became Great Seneschal and "Maestre Racional" of Catalunya, "Maestro Giustiziere" of the kingdom of Naples 1529, del Regno de Sicilia 1529, "Presidente del Regno" on 20 December 1535, and Captain General of the kingdom of Sicily since 12 January 1536, under viceroy Ferrante Gonzaga. Marriage and children Juan de Moncada y de Tolça married first, Giovanna La Grua, daughter of Giovanni Vincenzo La Grua, signore di Carini e Misilmeri, later also of Montechiaro, deceased at Carini on 29 May 1517, and his 1st wife Elisabetta Bracco e Calvello, daughter of Giorgio Bracco, Regio milite a Palermo. He married, second, Ana de Cardona, daughter of Fernando Ramon Folch, 2nd Duke of Cardona and Fra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aitona
Aitona is a and ''municipi'' (municipality) in the comarca of Segria, Segrià in Catalonia, Spain. Its population is 2,523 by 2016. Its main industry is the agriculture. References External links Government data pages Municipalities in Segrià Populated places in Segrià {{Lleida-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mequinenza
Mequinenza (Aragonese and ) or Mequinensa () is a town and municipality of the province of Zaragoza, in the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain. It is located beside the river Segre, close to its confluence with the river Ebro between the Mequinenza Dam and Riba-roja reservoir. Its reservoir, known also as Mar de Aragón, built between 1957 and 1964, has a capacity of 1,530,000,000 m³ and is one of the largest in the country. It has a regatta field for rowing and canoeing considered one of the best in Europe for its excellent accessibility and its stable level of water. San Blas and Santa Águeda Festivities take place in February and are considered a Festival of Tourist Interest in Aragon. Name The name comes from Miknasa, a Berber tribe that built a defensive settlement at Mequinenza Castle in the 8th century. It was Latinized as ''Miquinencia'' and appears differently in the documentation until the 19th century, alternating the forms ''Mquinensa'', ''Miquinença'', ''Meq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catalunya
Catalonia (; ca, Catalunya ; Aranese Occitan: ''Catalonha'' ; es, Cataluña ) is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a ''nationality'' by its Statute of Autonomy. Most of the territory (except the Val d'Aran) lies on the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula, to the south of the Pyrenees mountain range. Catalonia is administratively divided into four provinces: Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, and Tarragona. The capital and largest city, Barcelona is the second-most populated municipality in Spain and the fifth-most populous urban area in the European Union. > > > ''Catalonia'' theoretically derived. During the Middle Ages, Byzantine Empire, Byzantine chroniclers claimed that ''Catalania'' derives from the local medley of Goths with Alans, initially constituting a ''Goth-Alania''. Other theories suggest: *''Catalunya'' derives from the term "land of castles", having evolved from the term ''castlà'' or ''castlan'', the medieval term for a castellan (a ruler of a cast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingdom Of Naples
The Kingdom of Naples ( la, Regnum Neapolitanum; it, Regno di Napoli; nap, Regno 'e Napule), also known as the Kingdom of Sicily, was a state that ruled the part of the Italian Peninsula south of the Papal States between 1282 and 1816. It was established by the War of the Sicilian Vespers (1282–1302), when the island of Sicily revolted and was conquered by the Crown of Aragon, becoming a separate kingdom also called the Kingdom of Sicily. In 1816, it reunified with the island of Sicily to form the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. The territory of the Kingdom of Naples corresponded to the current Italian regions of Campania, Calabria, Apulia, Basilicata, Abruzzo, Molise and also included some areas of today's southern and eastern Lazio. Nomenclature The term "Kingdom of Naples" is in near-universal use among historians, but it was not used officially by the government. Since the Angevins remained in power on the Italian peninsula, they kept the original name of the Kingdom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferrante Gonzaga
Ferrante I Gonzaga (also Ferdinando I Gonzaga; 28 January 1507 – 15 November 1557) was an Italian condottiero, a member of the House of Gonzaga and the founder of the branch of the Gonzaga of Guastalla. Biography He was born in Mantua, the third son of Francesco II Gonzaga and Isabella d'Este. At the age of sixteen he was sent to the court of Spain as a page to the future emperor Charles V, to whom Ferrante remained faithful for his whole life. In 1527 he took part in the Sack of Rome and attended Charles' triumphant coronation at Bologna in 1530: at the death of Charles of Bourbon (1527) he was appointed commander-in-chief of the Imperial army in Italy. He became a Knight in the Order of the Golden Fleece in 1531. He defended Naples from the assault of the French troops under Odet of Foix, Viscount of Lautrec, and obtained the surrender of the Republic of Florence. For this feat Pope Clement VII, a member of the Medici who had been ousted from that city, named him papal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carini
Carini ( la, Hyccara or Hyccarum, grc, Ὕκαρα and Ὕκαρον) is a city and ''comune'' in the Metropolitan City of Palermo, Sicily, by rail west-northwest of Palermo. It has a population of 37,752. History Timaeus, in the thirteenth book of his work Histories, said that it was called Hyccara because the first men who arrived there found a species of fishes which were called hycae ( grc, ὕκας). Hyccara reached its maximum splendour in the second half of the 5th century BC. It became an important maritime emporium and was very popular with the Phoenicians who brought numerous products and metals unknown to Sicily. War broke out between Athens and Syracuse after the Athenians came to Sicily to aid Segesta and Selinunte, enemies of Syracuse. In 415 BC Nicias with 5,000 Athenian warriors attacked and destroyed Hyccara. Its inhabitants were enslaved and sold at the Catania market, among them the girl Lais, who later became a famous courtesan in Corinth. The Hyccarin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Misilmeri
Misilmeri ( scn, Musulumeli) is a town and ''comune'' in the Metropolitan City of Palermo, Sicily. It is approximately from Palermo and its name means "the resting place or the messuage of the Emir", and dates from the Muslim emirate of Sicily. The village rose around a castle (today known as ''Castello dell'Emiro'', or "Castle of the Emir") founded by emir Jafar II (998–1019). In 1068 the Battle of Misilmeri was fought between the Normans and Arabs Misilmeri is located in the Eleuterio Valley on the southern slopes of Montagna Grande. It is the birthplace of the magistrate Rocco Chinnici Rocco Chinnici (, ; 19 January 1925 – 29 July 1983) was a noted Italian anti-Mafia magistrate killed by the Sicilian Mafia. Life Born at Misilmeri, Chinnici graduated in law at the University of Palermo in 1947 and started working as a magist .... References External links Official website Municipalities of the Metropolitan City of Palermo {{sicily-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernando Ramon Folch, 2nd Duke Of Cardona
Fernando Ramon Folch De Cardona, 2nd Duke of Cardona, (circa 1470 – Barcelona, 13 November 1543), was a Spanish noble. He became 2nd Duke of Cardona in 1513 and was also Viceroy of Sicily. Fernando's father Juan Ramón Folch IV de Cardona (1446–1513) was awarded the title Duke of Cardona in 1491 by King Ferdinand II of Aragón. Fernando's grandfather was Juan Ramon Folch de Cardona, 3rd count of Cardona, a.k.a. Juan Ramon Folch III, 3rd count of Cardona, 6th count of Prades, 3rd count of Cardona and Viceroy of Sicily (1477–1479). Fernand was also 2nd Marquis of Pallars, 7th Count of Prades, Viscount of Villamur, Baron of Entenza, Great Constable and Admiral of Aragon as well as a Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece invested in 1519 by King Charles I of Spain. He was also made Grandee of Spain in 1520. Family and children He was married on 17 February 1498, at Epila, Zaragoza, Spain, to Francisca Manrique de Lara (deceased at Arbeca, prov. of Lerida on 21 Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Manrique De Lara, 2nd Duke Of Nájera
Antonio Manrique de Lara, 2nd Duke of Nájera (died 13 December 1535) was a Spanish noble and military leader, and Viceroy of Navarre between 1516 and 1521. He was the second son of Pedro Manrique de Lara, captain general of Army of Navarre and ''capitán general de la Frontera de Aragón, Navarra y Jaén''. His mother was Guiomar de Castro. His father was named 1st Duke of Nájera by Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile on 30 August 1482. Antonio became second Duke in 1515, when his father died. He was also 3rd Count of Treviño. In 1519 he was made a knight in the Order of the Golden Fleece by Charles I of Spain. Appointed viceroy of Navarre by Cardinal Cisneros in 1516, he was ordered to pacify the newly conquered Kingdom. But he acted in such a brutal manner, that he became much hated by the Navarrese. When the son of the former King of Navarre, Henry II sent a large French/Navarrese army commanded by General André de Foix to reconquer his Kingdom, the Navar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanni II Ventimiglia, 6th Marquis Of Geraci
Giovanni II Ventimiglia y Moncada, 6th Marquis of Geraci (died 1533) was a Sicilian aristocrat, a member of the prominent House of Venitmiglia. Giovanni II Ventimiglia y Moncada, was the son of Simone I Ventimiglia, 5th Marquis of Geraci, (1485–1544). Giovanni II was confirmed as the 6th Marquis in 1545. His grandson, Giovanni III (1559–1619) and former Viceroys of Sicily, is sometimes erroneously as Giovanni II. Giovanni III also served as President of Sicily Kingdom, 1595, 1598 and 1608. In 1527 Giovanni married Isabella Moncada y La Grua, niece of the former Spanish Viceroy of Sicily and Naples, and daughter of Hugo's brother, Juan de Moncada y de Tolça, 3rd Count of Marmilia and 1st Count of Aitona. Origins of the title Marquis of Geraci In 1436, the first title of Marquis of Geraci was awarded to the 7th Count of Geraci, Giovanni I Ventimiglia, 1st Marquis of Geraci (1383–1475), by the Aragonese Crown, ruling in Sicily since the Sicilian Vespers in 1282. This ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francisco De Moncada Y Cardona, 1st Marquis Of Aitona
Francisco de Moncada y Cardona ( Mequinenza, 9 October 1532 – Valencia, 12 November 1594) Fundación Medinaceli was a Spanish noble from the 16th century. He was the son of , 1st Count of Aitona and Ana de Cardona, daughter of In 1574 he became IX Count of Osona and |
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