Biography
In 1460, Alonso de Fonseca y Acevedo was appointed by the King of Spain and confirmed by Pope Pius II as Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela, Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela. In 1465, he was appointed by Pope Paul II as Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Sevilla, Archbishop of Seville. On 24 May 1493, he was appointed by Pope Alexander VI as Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela, Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela from which he resigned in 1507. He was one of the three ambassadors to England that left on 26 August 1501 to accompany princess Catherine of Aragon on her marriage to Arthur, Prince of Wales. The others were Diego Fernández de Córdoba y Mendoza, 3rd Count of Cabra, and Antonio de Rojas Manrique, bishop of Mallorca. He died in 1512.References
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