Fernando Fernández de Ovando was a Spanish

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and nobleman.

Life

Fernando Fernández de Ovando was a son of

Hernán Pérez de Ovando Hernán Pérez de Ovando was a Spanish military man and nobleman. Life Hernán Pérez de Ovando was a son of Pedro Fernández de Ovando and wife María de Azagra. He served Ferdinand II of León and Alfonso IX of León, specially at the Conquest ...

and wife. He was a server of

Ferdinand III of Castile Ferdinand III ( es, Fernando, link=no; 1199/120130 May 1252), called the Saint (''el Santo''), was King of Castile from 1217 and King of León from 1230 as well as King of Galicia from 1231. He was the son of Alfonso IX of León and Berenguela of ...

and

Alfonso X of Castile Alfonso X (also known as the Wise, es, el Sabio; 23 November 1221 – 4 April 1284) was King of Castile, León and Galicia from 30 May 1252 until his death in 1284. During the election of 1257, a dissident faction chose him to be king of Germ ...

, the Wise, being his

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, where he died. He married and was the father 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 ...

Sources

* Cunha, Fernando de Castro Pereira Mouzinho de Albuquerque e (1906–1998), ''Instrumentário Genealógico - Linhagens Milenárias''. MCMXCV, p. 402 {{DEFAULTSORT:Fernandez De Ovando, Fernando Spanish untitled nobility