Juan Bravo (c. 1483,

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–24 April 1521,

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) was a leader of the rebel Comuneros in the Castilian

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. His father was Gonzalo Ortega Bravo de Laguna, and his mother was María de Mendoza, daughter of the

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of Monteagudo. In 1504 he married Catalina del Río, they went to live in

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, and they had a daughter called María de Mendoza. In 1510 he married a second time, to María Coronel, grand daughter of Abraham Seneor, a

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. They had two sons, Andrea Bravo de Mendoza and Juan Bravo de Mendoza. He took part in the

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, and he was a leader of the rebel army which was defeated at the

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. He was captured, and beheaded the day after the battle. There is now a monument to him in Segovia.

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