''Fray'' Diego Fernández de Ovando was a Spanish

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and nobleman.

Life

Diego Fernández de Ovando was a son of Fernando Fernández de Ovando, second son, and wife Francisca de Ulloa, and paternal grandson of

Fernando Fernández de Ovando, 1st Count of Torrelaguna and 1st Count of Uceda Fernando is a Spanish and Portuguese given name and a surname common in Spain, Portugal, Italy, France, Switzerland, former Spanish or Portuguese colonies in Latin America, Africa, the Philippines, India, and Sri Lanka. It is equivalent to the G ...

, and wife Ora Blázquez Trillo, Lady of Talamanca. He was a Professed

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of the

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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 ...

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of Lares at the time of

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Don Nuno Chamiço elected in 1338. He had a natural son, Fernando Alfón de Ovando.

Sources

*Cunha, Fernando de Castro Pereira Mouzinho de Albuquerque e (1906-1998), ''Instrumentário Genealógico - Linhagens Milenárias''. MCMXCV, p. 401 {{DEFAULTSORT:Fernandez De Ovando, Diego Spanish untitled nobility Knights of the Order of Alcántara