Alfonso or Alonso Manrique de Lara y Solís (

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, 1476 –

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, 28 September 1538) was a Spanish churchman.

Biography

Manrique was born in

, apparently a son from the third marriage of the famous Rodrigo Manrique de Lara with a Solís-Castañeda woman (1404 – Ocaña, 1476), being therefore a very young stepbrother of the poet

Jorge Manrique Jorge Manrique (c. 1440 – 24 April 1479) was a major Castilian poet, whose main work, the ''Coplas por la muerte de su padre (Verses on the death of Don Rodrigo Manrique, his Father)'', is still read today. He was a supporter of the queen I ...

de Lara (circa 1440 – 1479, died besieging the castle of Garcimuñoz). Jerónimo Manrique de Lara was his son. He was

Bishop of Badajoz A bishop is an ordained clergy member who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or office of bishop is ca ...

(September 1499 until before 1516),

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(August 1516 – 1523) and Archbishop of Seville (from August 1523). He was Inquisitor General (September 1523 onwards) as a successor of

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(later

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), and appointed around February – April 1531 as cardinal-priest of the

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. After he was given the title of cardinal-priest of

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, from 17 April 1531 till 12 July 1532.Cardinal Title S. Callisto
GCatholic.org He died on 28 September 1538 in Seville after falling from a horse.

References

* P. RUBIO. "Manrique de Lara, Alonso." in ''Diccionario de historia eclesiástica de España''. 4 vols and Supplement. Dir.Quintín Aldea Vaquero, Tomás Marín Martínez, José Vives Gatell. Madrid: Instituto Enrique Flórez, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 1972–1975, III, 1480.

External links and additional sources

* (for Chronology of Bishops) * (for Chronology of Bishops) {{DEFAULTSORT:Manrique De Lara, Alonso 1471 births 1538 deaths 16th-century Spanish cardinals Grand Inquisitors of Spain Roman Catholic archbishops of Seville 15th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Castile 16th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Spain