Rodrigo de Monroy y Almaraz, 5th Lord of Monroy, was a Spanish nobleman and Feudal Lord, son of Hernán de Monroy y Rodríguez de las Varillas, 4th Lord of Monroy, and wife Isabel de Almaraz, Lady of Almaraz.
He married Mencía de Orellana y Carvajal, daughter of Hernándo Alfonso de Orellana (a distant relative of Francisco de Orellana), and wife Juana González de Carvajal, and had at least:
* Hernán Rodríguez de Monroy y Orellana, el Bezudo, 6th Lord of Monroy, married and had issue
* Rodrigo (sometimes called Ruy) Fernández de Monroy y Orellana, married to María Cortés, daughter of Diego de la Cueva, ''Alcalde'' of Caltinovo (a relative of Beltrán de la Cueva) and wife María Cortés, and had:
** Martín Cortés de Monroy (b. 1449), an Infantry Captain (land and air), Captain of distinguished ancestry but slender means, married to Catalina Pizarro y Altamirano, daughter of Diego Altamirano and wife and cousin Leonor Sánchez Pizarro y Altamirano,
[Paternal granddaughter of Juan Altamirano and wife María de Vivero, and maternal granddaughter of Martín Pizarro de Hinojosa (grand-uncle of Francisco Pizarro) and wife Isabel Rodríguez Altamirano, in turn daughter of Benito Hernández Altamirano and wife Isabel Rodríguez de Aguilar.] and had:
*** Hernán Cortés, Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro, 1st Marquess of the Valley of Oaxaca (1485–1547), the Conquistador of the Aztec Empire
Notes
Sources
* Cunha, Fernando de Castro Pereira Mouzinho de Albuquerque e (1906–1998), ''Instrumentário Genealógico – Linhagens Milenárias''. MCMXCV, pp. 310–1
* Instituto de Salazar y Castro, ''Elenco de Grandezas y Titulos Nobiliarios Españoles''. Various (periodic publication)
* Machado, J. T. Montalvão, ''Dos Pizarros de Espanha aos de Portugal e Brasil''. Author's Edition, 1st Edition. Lisbon, 1970, pp. 20 and 47 – Arv. 1
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