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Diego López De Medrano Y Zúñiga
Diego López de Medrano y Zúñiga (14th century – 15th century) was a nobility, noble, knight and the lord of Fuenmayor, Almarza de Cameros, Azofra, Spain, Azofra and Montalvos in the region of La Rioja, Kingdom of Castile, Kingdom of Castile and León. Diego was born into the ancient Medrano, House of Medrano, high nobility and ricohombre, ricoshombres from the Kingdom of Navarre and Castile; and the House of Zúñiga on his mother's side. Background Diego López de Medrano y Zúñiga was the son of Juan Martínez de Medrano, lord of Fuenmayor and Almarza de Campos, and Aldonza de Zúñiga. He is the paternal grandson of Álvar Díaz de Medrano y Zúñiga and Toda Hurtado de Mendoza. Diego's father Juan was the brother of Diego López de Medrano, Lord of Agoncillo, Maria de Medrano, Aldonza Sanchez de Medrano and Toda Hurtado de Medrano. Marriage and children Diego López de Medrano y Zúñiga married Doña Aldonza Ramírez de Ulloque (also known as Doña Aldonza Ramírez ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medrano
Medrano is a Spanish surname of Basque language, Basque origin that means "abundance, to grow, to prosper, or to improve." It is a surname of high nobility established in the old Kingdoms of Kingdom of Navarre, Navarre, Kingdom of Aragon, Aragon, kingdom of Castile, Castile, Kingdom of France, France, etc. They are all descendants of their progenitor, Prince Palace of Vélaz de Medrano#Progenitor, Andrés Vélaz de Medrano.Caro Baroja, Julio. ''Etnografía Histórica de Navarra''. Vol. 2. Editorial Aranzadi, 1972, pp. 380–381 https://www.fundacioncajanavarra.es/cultura-y-educacion/archivo/etnografia-historica-de-navarra-volumen-II.pdf Medrano may refer to: People Notable people with the surname include: Medieval and early modern nobility * María Ramírez de Medrano, Lady of Fuenmayor, wealthy noblewoman in the 12th century, founder of the Commandery, hospital and convent of San Juan de Acre in Navarrete to protect pilgrims on the Camino de Santiago, donated some of her lands ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duke Of Nájera
Duke of Nájera () is a hereditary title in the Spanish nobility, peerage of Spain, which was bestowed by the Catholic Monarchs of Spain on 30 August 1482 to Don Pedro Manrique de Lara, II Condado de Treviño, Count of Treviño and Ricohombre de Castilla, as a reward for his services to the Crown. By birth, he was member of an old Castilian House of Lara. In 1520, King Charles I supplemented the title of Duke with that of Grandee of Spain. The title refers to the town of Nájera in the La Rioja region. The Dukes of Nájera ruled Nájera until the year 1600, when the last Duke in the male line died without a son. The title passed to his daughter Luisa. Dukes of Nájera Sources * Salazar y Acha, Jaime de (2012). Los Grandes de España (siglos XV-XVI). Ediciones Hidalguía. . Geneanet {{DEFAULTSORT:Nájera, Dukes Of Dukedoms of Spain Dukes of Nájera, Grandees of Spain, Noble titles created in 1482 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baztan, Navarre
Baztan is a municipality from the Chartered Community of Navarre, northern Spain. It is located from Pamplona, the capital of Navarre. It is the largest municipality in Navarre, with around 376.8 km2 and just over 8,000 inhabitants. Settlements The capital of the valley is Elizondo, and includes 15 other villages, as follows: * Amaiur-Maia * Aniz * Arraioz * Almandoz * Arizkun * Azpilikueta * Berroeta * Elbete * Erratzu * Gartzain * Irurita * Lekaroz * Erratzu * Oronoz-Mugairi * Ziga Geography The territory of the Baztan valley extends over an area of 377 square km of which much is common land jointly owned by the residents of the Baztan valley and primarily used as grazing ground for flocks of sheep and herds of semi-wild horses. The Baztan Valley borders with the French Basque regions of Lapurdi and Lower Navarre which is accessed by the Izpegi Pass to the east of the valley and Dantxarinea to the north. This vicinity to France and its ties with its Basque neighbours h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Entrena
Entrena is a municipality of La Rioja (Spain), located near the capital Logroño. Its population in January 2010 was 1,503 over an area of 21.03 square kilometres. The nucleus is placed at an altitude of 558 metres. It is bordered by Navarrete and Lardero to the north; Albelda de Iregua to the east; Nalda, Sorzano and Sojuela to the south; and Medrano to the west. Geography The relief of the municipality is level, its altitude varies between the 500 and the 600 M.s. Most of the land are in a glacis, old channel of Iregua River. In the South zone are the first spurs of the Mountain range of Moncalvillo. The village is located in this zone, on the hill called El Conjuro. Is urbanized in ''bastille'' with his streets staggered and concentric. The residential zone extends from the slope south until the adjacent plain, whereas in the slope north, fresher, situates the Neighbourhood of Las Bodegas. The rivers are few and with great low water. Hardly precipices coming from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medrano, Spain
Medrano is a municipality in La Rioja, Spain. It is situated 17km from the capital Logroño. There are 346 inhabitants and it covers 7.46km². Geography The term limits to the north with Navarrete, to the east with Entrena, to the south with Sojuela and Daroca de Rioja and to the west with Hornos de Moncalvillo. History 11th century Its name and coat of arms are derived from the noble Medrano family. The earliest mention of Medrano, La Rioja is recorded in Sojuela (Logroño), on November 2, 1044.Olcoz Yanguas, Serafín. "''El Buen Padre Fortún Sánchez, la tenencia de Nájera y otras tenencias relevantes del reino de Pamplona, durante la primera mitad del siglo XI''." Príncipe de Viana, vol. 249, 2010, pp. 121-184. https://dialnet.unirioja.es/descarga/articulo/3236676.pdf The King of Navarre, García Sánchez III of Pamplona, known as the'' ''one from Nájera,''' with his consort Queen Estefanía de Foix, donates to the church of San Julián de Sojuela the village of M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hornos De Moncalvillo
Hornos de Moncalvillo is a village in the province and autonomous community of La Rioja, Spain Spain, or the Kingdom of Spain, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe with territories in North Africa. Featuring the Punta de Tarifa, southernmost point of continental Europe, it is the largest country in Southern Eur .... The municipality covers an area of and as of 2011 had a population of 96 people. Politics References Populated places in La Rioja (Spain) {{LaRiojaES-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Navarrete, La Rioja
Navarrete is a municipality of the autonomous community of La Rioja. Named a '' Conjunto Histórico-Artístico'' of Spain, due to its historical and monumental character. Navarrete is located between Logroño and Nájera on the French Way, the most popular path on the Way of St. James, a medieval pilgrim route. Currently, Navarrete is the only pottery centre in La Rioja, and it has been one of the most important centres in Northern Spain. Geography Orography The municipality has an extension of 28,49 km², and it borders with Fuenmayor to the north, Logroño and Lardero to the east, Entrena, Medrano, Hornos de Moncalvillo, and Sotés to the south, and Huércanos and Cenicero to the west. Most of the land is located on a glacis of the Iregua River, where currently the Daroca River flows. Within its territorial jurisdiction there is also a reservoir called Valbornedo. The historic centre of the town is built on a hill called Tedeón (512 m), from which the town has since ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
García Sánchez III Of Pamplona
García Sánchez III (; 1012 – 1 September 1054),''Europäische Stammtafeln'': II #56, III.1 #145; Moriarty, ''Plantagenet Ancestry of King Edward III and Queen Philippa of Hainault'', p80, 109 nicknamed García from Nájera (, ) was King of Pamplona from 1034 until his death. He was also Count of Álava and had under his personal control part of the County of Castile. As the eldest son of Sancho III he inherited the dynastic rights over the crown of Pamplona, becoming feudal overlord over two of his brothers: Ramiro, who was given lands that would serve as the basis for the Kingdom of Aragón; and Gonzalo, who received the counties of Sobrarbe and Ribagorza. Likewise, he had some claim to suzerainty over his brother Ferdinand, who under their father had served as Count of Castile, nominally subject to the Kingdom of León but brought under the personal control of Sancho III. Biography García Sánchez inherited the crown of Pamplona after the death of his father ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephanie, Queen Of Navarre
Stephanie or Estefania (died after 1066) was Queen of Navarre as the wife of García Sánchez III of Navarre. Early chroniclers are in conflict over her parentage. Origins Parentage Stephanie was born at an unknown date, and is first recorded as wife of García in a document dated 1038/40. There are two theories concerning Stephanie's parentage. The first is that she was the daughter of Berenguer Ramon I, Count of Barcelona. Another theory is Stephanie was the daughter of Bernard-Roger, Count of Bigorre and his wife Garsenda. Possible first marriage There are other hints, besides the dubious account of the ''Chronicle of Saint-Pierre-le-Vif'', to an earlier marriage by Stephanie. ''Histoire Générale de Languedoc'', giving no quote or source reference, reports the existence of a 1036 marriage contract attributed to Stephanie. An episode related in the ''Chronica Naierensis'' tells that a daughter of queen Stephanie by a prior husband was promised as wife to Sancho II of C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clerk
A clerk is a white-collar worker who conducts record keeping as well as general office tasks, or a worker who performs similar sales-related tasks in a retail environment. The responsibilities of clerical workers commonly include Records management, record keeping, filing, staffing service counters, screening callers, and other administrative tasks. In City of London Livery company, livery companies, the clerk is the chief executive officer. History and etymology The word ''clerk'' is derived from the Latin ''clericus'' meaning "cleric" or "clergyman", which is the Latinisation of names, latinisation of the Greek language, Greek ''κληρικός'' (''klērikos'') from a word meaning a "lot" (in the sense of drawing lots) and hence an "apportionment" or "area of land". Henry George Liddell, Robert S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spanish Real
The ''real'' (English: /ɹeɪˈɑl/ Spanish: /reˈal/) (meaning: "royal", plural: ''reales'') was a unit of currency in Spanish Empire, Spain for several centuries after the mid-14th century. It underwent several changes in value relative to other units throughout its lifetime until it was replaced by the ''Spanish peseta, peseta'' in 1868. The most common denomination for the currency was the silver eight-''real'' Spanish dollar (''Real de a 8'') or peso which was used throughout Europe, America and Asia during the height of the Spanish Empire. History In Spain and Spanish America The first real was introduced by Peter of Castile, King Pedro I of Crown of Castile, Castile in the mid 14th century, with 66 minted from a ''Castilian mark'' of silver (230.0465 grams) in a fineness of (0.9306), and valued of 3 ''maravedíes''. It circulated beside various other silver coins until a 1497 ordinance eliminated all other coins and retained the real (now minted 67 to a mark of silve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Islallana
Islallana is a village in the municipality of Nalda, in the province and autonomous community of La Rioja, Spain. As of 2018 had a population of 122 people. It is located next to the Iregua river, in the foothills of the Sistem Iberico mountain range. In this town, it takes the waters of the Iregua el ''Río Antiguo'', an irrigation channel that supplies the municipalities of Nalda, Albelda de Iregua, Entrena, Navarrete and Fuenmayor. The patronal festivities are celebrated on December 3th and March 11th, in both cases in honor of S. Francisco Javier. Connections Islallana is crossed by the N-111, which connects Logroño with Soria Soria () is a municipality and a Spanish city, located on the Douro river in the east of the autonomous community of Castile and León and capital of the province of Soria. Its population is 38,881 ( INE, 2017), 43.7% of the provincial populatio .... Places of interest Buildings and monuments * Parish Church of San Pedro Apóstol. Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
