Pedro Fernández de Velasco, 2nd Count of Haro (in full, es,
Don
Don, don or DON and variants may refer to:
Places
*County Donegal, Ireland, Chapman code DON
*Don (river), a river in European Russia
*Don River (disambiguation), several other rivers with the name
*Don, Benin, a town in Benin
*Don, Dang, a vill ...
Pedro Fernández de Velasco y Manrique, segundo conde de Haro, sexto Condestable de Castilla, señor de los valles de Saba y Ruesga, y de las villas de Briviesca, Puebla de Arganzón, Arnedo, Medina de Pomar, Santo Domingo de Silos, Salas de los Infantes, Villalpando, señor de Haro, Belorado, Frías, Villasiego y Herrera, Camarero mayor de Enrique IV de Castilla y de los Reyes Católicos, Merino mayor de Castilla la Vieja, Virrey y capitán general del Reino de Navarra y de las Provincias Vascongadas) (c. 1425 – 1492) was a Spanish nobleman and military figure of the last stages of the
Reconquista
The ' (Spanish, Portuguese and Galician for "reconquest") is a historiographical construction describing the 781-year period in the history of the Iberian Peninsula between the Umayyad conquest of Hispania in 711 and the fall of the Nasrid ...
.
Fernández de Velasco was born in
Burgos
Burgos () is a city in Spain located in the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is the capital and most populated municipality of the province of Burgos.
Burgos is situated in the north of the Iberian Peninsula, on the confluence of t ...
, the son of
Pedro Fernández de Velasco
Pedro is a masculine given name. Pedro is the Spanish, Portuguese, and Galician name for ''Peter''. Its French equivalent is Pierre while its English and Germanic form is Peter.
The counterpart patronymic surname of the name Pedro, meaning ...
and of Beatriz Manrique. He became ''Camarero Mayor'' of King
Henry IV of Castile
Henry IV of Castile ( Castilian: ''Enrique IV''; 5 January 1425 – 11 December 1474), King of Castile and León, nicknamed the Impotent, was the last of the weak late-medieval kings of Castile and León. During Henry's reign, the nobles became ...
, and viceroy and governor of
Castile. In 1473 Henry IV named him sixth
Constable of Castile
Constable of Castile ( es, Condestable de Castilla) was a title created by John I, King of Castile in 1382, to substitute the title ''Alférez Mayor del Reino''. The constable was the second person in power in the kingdom, after the King, and h ...
and made this title hereditary in his family.
He participated in the conquest of
Úbeda
Úbeda (; from Iberian ''Ibiut'') is a town in the province of Jaén in Spain's autonomous community of Andalusia, with 34,733 (data 2017) inhabitants. Both this city and the neighbouring city of Baeza benefited from extensive patronage in the ...
and
Baeza, which both occurred on
Saint Andrew
Andrew the Apostle ( grc-koi, Ἀνδρέᾱς, Andréās ; la, Andrēās ; , syc, ܐܰܢܕ݁ܪܶܐܘܳܣ, ʾAnd’reʾwās), also called Saint Andrew, was an apostle of Jesus according to the New Testament. He is the brother of Simon Peter ...
's day. He also fought against the Moors in the battles of
Gibraltar
)
, anthem = " God Save the King"
, song = " Gibraltar Anthem"
, image_map = Gibraltar location in Europe.svg
, map_alt = Location of Gibraltar in Europe
, map_caption = United Kingdom shown in pale green
, mapsize =
, image_map2 = Gib ...
and
Archidona
Archidona is a town and municipality in the province of Málaga, part of the autonomous community of Andalusia in southern Spain. It is the center of the comarca of Nororiental de Málaga and the head of the judicial district that bears its name ...
and participated in the
conquest of Granada
The Granada War ( es, Guerra de Granada) was a series of military campaigns between 1482 and 1491 during the reign of the Catholic Monarchs, Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon, against the Nasrid dynasty's Emirate of Granada. It e ...
, where he died. He and his wife are buried in the ''Capilla del Condestable'' in the
Burgos Cathedral
The Cathedral of Saint Mary of Burgos ( es, Santa Iglesia Basílica Catedral Metropolitana de Santa María de Burgos) is a Catholic church dedicated to the Virgin Mary located in the historical center of the Spanish city of Burgos. Its official n ...
.
He married Mencía de Mendoza y Figueroa, with whom he had ten children.
*
Bernardino Fernández de Velasco, 1st Duke of Frías
Don Bernardino Fernández de Velasco, 1st Duke of Frías, Grandee of Spain (c. 1450 – 9 February 1512) was a Spanish nobleman and prominent military figure of the last stages of the Reconquista.
Fernández de Velasco was born in Burgos, the son ...
, married
**Blanca de Herrera, señora de Pedraza de la Sierra
**Juana of Aragon, illegitimate daughter of
Ferdinand II of Aragon
Ferdinand II ( an, Ferrando; ca, Ferran; eu, Errando; it, Ferdinando; la, Ferdinandus; es, Fernando; 10 March 1452 – 23 January 1516), also called Ferdinand the Catholic (Spanish: ''el Católico''), was King of Aragon and Sardinia from ...
.
*
Íñigo Fernández de Velasco, 2nd Duke of Frías
Íñigo Fernández de Velasco, 2nd Duke of Frías, Grandee of Spain (in full, es, Don Íñigo Fernández de Velasco y López de Mendoza, segundo duque de la villa de Frías, cuarto conde de Haro, octavo Condestable de Castilla, mayorazgo y seño ...
, married
María de Tovar, Lady of Berlanga
*Catarina de Velasco, married
Pedro de Zúñiga, 2nd Count of Miranda
*Leonor de Velasco, married
Juan Téllez-Girón, 2nd Count of Ureña
Juan Téllez-Girón, 2nd Count of Ureña (in full, es, Don Juan Téllez-Girón de las Casas, segundo conde de Ureña, señor de Osuna, Tiedra, Peñafiel, Briones, Frechilla, Morón de la Frontera, Archidona, El Arahal, Cazalla de la Sierra, Gelves ...
*María de Velasco, married
**
Juan Pacheco, 1st Duke of Escalona
Juan Pacheco, 1st Duke of Escalona (1419 – 1 October 1474), better known as Juan Pacheco, Marquess of Villena, was a Castilian noble of Portuguese descent who rose to power in the last years of the reign of Juan II of Castile and came to dom ...
**
Beltrán de la Cueva, 1st Duke of Alburquerque
Beltrán de la Cueva y Alfonso de Mercado, 1st Duke of Alburquerque (c. 1443 – 1 November 1492) was a Spanish nobleman who is said to have fathered Joanna, the daughter of Henry IV of Castile's wife Joan of Portugal. His alleged daughter, calle ...
*Isabel Fernandez de Velasco, married
Juan Alonso de Guzmán, 3rd Duke of Medina Sidonia
''Juan'' is a given name, the Spanish and Manx versions of ''John''. It is very common in Spain and in other Spanish-speaking communities around the world and in the Philippines, and also (pronounced differently) in the Isle of Man. In Spanish, t ...
Sources
*
*
*
*
*
*
1425 births
1492 deaths
Spanish viceroys
102 102 may refer to:
* 102 (number), the number
* AD 102, a year in the 2nd century AD
* 102 BC, a year in the 2nd century BC
* 102 (ambulance service), an emergency medical transport service in Uttar Pradesh, India
* 102 (Clyde) Field Squadron, Royal ...
Lords of Medina de Pomar
Lords of Briviesca
Lords of Villadiego
Lords of Belorado
Lords of Salas de los Infantes y su Sierra
Pedro
Pedro is a masculine given name. Pedro is the Spanish, Portuguese, and Galician name for ''Peter''. Its French equivalent is Pierre while its English and Germanic form is Peter.
The counterpart patronymic surname of the name Pedro, meaning ...
Pedro
Pedro is a masculine given name. Pedro is the Spanish, Portuguese, and Galician name for ''Peter''. Its French equivalent is Pierre while its English and Germanic form is Peter.
The counterpart patronymic surname of the name Pedro, meaning ...
15th-century Castilians
{{Spain-noble-stub