Diego de Cáceres y Ovando was a Spanish nobleman.
Life
Diego de Cáceres y Ovando, first-born son of
Diego Fernández de Cáceres y Ovando
Diego Fernández de Cáceres y Ovando (– Monleón, aft. February 2, 1487) was a Spanish military and nobleman.
Life
Diego Fernández de Cáceres y Ovando was a son of Fernán Blázquez de Cáceres y Mogollón, who granted a will at Cácere ...
, 1st Señor of the
Manor House del Alcázar Viejo, and first wife Isabel Flores de las Varillas, a distant relative of
Hernán Cortés
Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro Altamirano, 1st Marquess of the Valley of Oaxaca (; ; 1485 – December 2, 1547) was a Spanish ''conquistador'' who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of w ...
, was the 2nd Señor of the
House
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de las Cigüeñas, at the Plaza de San Mateo of
Cáceres, in which he succeeded in 1487, ''Corregidor'' of
Valladolid, ''Comendador-Mayor'' of
Alcántara
Alcántara is a municipality in the province of Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain, on the Tagus, near Portugal. The toponym is from the Arabic word ''al-Qanṭarah'' (القنطرة) meaning "the bridge".
History
Archaeological findings have atteste ...
, in which conventual church he was interred.
He married
Doña Francisca de Mendoza y Vera, daughter of Don Juan de Vera and wife Juana de Sandoval y Mendoza. Among other children they had, second born,
Juan de Vera y de Mendoza, el Viejo
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.
Sources
*Cunha, Fernando de Castro Pereira Mouzinho de Albuquerque e (1906–1998), ''Instrumentário Genealógico - Linhagens Milenárias''. MCMXCV, p. 311
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Spanish untitled nobility
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