Íñigo López de Mendoza y Mendoza (1512 – Mondéjar, April 21, 1580), was a Spanish noble, military, diplomat and politician in the service of King

Philip II of Spain Philip II) in Spain, while in Portugal and his Italian kingdoms he ruled as Philip I ( pt, Filipe I). (21 May 152713 September 1598), also known as Philip the Prudent ( es, Felipe el Prudente), was King of Spain from 1556, King of Portugal from ...

Biography

He inherited from his father

Luis Hurtado de Mendoza y Pacheco Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name or . Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese and Galician, in Aragonese and Catalan, while is archai ...

the titles of 4th Count of Tendilla and 3rd Marquis of Mondejar. He became also 3rd and last Captain General of Granada. His mother was Catalina de Mendoza, daughter of the Count of Monteagudo. Íñigo married María de Mendoza, daughter of the very influential

Íñigo López de Mendoza, 4th Duke of the Infantado Íñigo Lopez de Mendoza y Pimentel, 4th Duke of the Infantado ( es, IV Duque del Infantado, 9 December 149317 September 1566) was a Spanish nobleman.

. In 1555, he became commander of the Spanish land and sea in the relief of the Turkish siege of Oran and Bugía. In 1560, he was Spanish Ambassador in Rome. He led the Spanish troops during the early stages of the

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together with

Luis Fajardo, 2nd Marquis of los Vélez Luis Yáñez Fajardo y La Cueva, 2nd Marquis of los Vélez, Grandee of Spain, (in full, es, Don Luis Yáñez Fajardo y La Cueva, segundo marqués de los Vélez, señor de Mula, Lebrilla, Alhama y Benitaglar, Adelantado mayor y capitán general d ...

. The American historian Henry Charles Lea wrote of Mondéjar's "short but brilliant campaign... Through heavy snows and intense cold and over almost inaccessible mountains he fought battle after battle, giving the enemy no respite and following up every advantage gained. The Moriscos speedily lost heart and sought terms of surrender… By the middle of February

569 Year 569 ( DLXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 569 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the ...

the rebellion was practically suppressed." Despite these successes, Mondejar was replaced in 1570 by Juan de Austria. After the suppression of the rebellion, he became

viceroy of Valencia This is a list of viceroys of the Kingdom of Valencia from 1520 to 1707. *1520 : Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, 1st Count of Melito *1523 : Germaine of Foix and Johann of Brandenburg-Ansbach *1526 : Germaine of Foix and Ferdinand of Aragon, Duque ...

in 1572, and

Viceroy of Naples This is a list of viceroys of the Kingdom of Naples. Following the conquest of Naples by Louis XII of France in 1501, Naples was subject to the rule of the foreign rulers, the Kings of France, Aragon and Spain and the Habsburg Archdukes of Austria ...

in 1575. He had 9 sons and two daughters, amongst whom * Luis Hurtado (1543–1604), his successor. *

Francisco López de Mendoza y Mendoza Francisco López de Mendoza y Mendoza (Granada, 1547 – Madrid, 1 March 1623), in the literature often simply referred to as Francisco de Mendoza, was a Spanish nobleman, diplomat, general, and eventually bishop, who briefly played an important r ...

, (1547-1623), Admiral of Aragon * Juan Hurtado (1555–1624), married

Ana de Mendoza y Enríquez de Cabrera, 6th Duchess of the Infantado Ana de Mendoza y Enríquez de Cabrera (b. 1554 - d. 1633), was the 6th Duchess of the Infantado from 1601-1633. Life Ana was married Rodrigo de Mendoza, her paternal uncle by her father, Íñigo López de Mendoza y Mendoza so as to avoid any ...

* Elvira (1565), married

Pedro Álvarez de Toledo, 5th Marquis of Villafranca Pedro de Toledo Osorio y Colonna or Pedro Álvarez de Toledo Osorio, 5th Marquess of Villafranca del Bierzo, (Naples, 6 September 1546 – 17 July 1627), Governor of the Duchy of Milan, 1616–1618, Prince of Montalbano Jonico, Montalbano, ...

.Nobleza española
by Juan Miguel Soler Salcedo.

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