Diego Fernández de la Cueva, 1st Viscount of Huelma (died 26 November 1473) was a Spanish nobleman.

Biography

Diego Fernández de la Cueva was born in

Úbeda Úbeda () is a municipalities in Spain, municipality of Spain located in the Province of Jaén (Spain), province of Jaén, Andalusia. The town lies on the southern ridge of the so-called Loma de Úbeda, a Table (landform), table sandwiched in bet ...

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. He was a

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and

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of King

Henry IV of Castile Henry IV of Castile (Spanish language, Castilian: ''Enrique IV''; 5 January 1425 – 11 December 1474), nicknamed the Impotent, was King of Kingdom of Castile, Castile and Kingdom of León, León and the last of the weak late-medieval kings of Ca ...

, who granted him the title of 1st Viscount of

Huelma Huelma is a city located in the province of Jaén, Spain. According to the 2010 census ( INE), the city had a population of 6,208 inhabitants. Etymology Its name dates from the 11th or 13th century Arabic ''Walda(t) al-ma'' a'water source'. On ...

. He was related to or perhaps a descendant of Juan Sánchez de la Cueva, a nobleman from Úbeda, ''Regedor'' or ''Veinte y Quatro'' (''24'') of Úbeda in 1367, who rose pennant for the usurper Henry, Count of Trastamara,

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d by his generous promises. He was also a relative and a contemporary of another Diego de la Cueva, ''

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'' of Caltinovo, married to María Cortés, whose daughter María Cortés married Rodrigo or Ruy Fernández de Monroy, paternal grandparents of

Hernán Cortés Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro Altamirano, 1st Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca (December 1485 – December 2, 1547) was a Spanish ''conquistador'' who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions o ...

. He married Maior Alfonso de Mercado from

and had three sons, including : *

Beltrán de la Cueva Beltrán is a Spanish-Italian surname (or given male name) of initially Italian origin with the first record of the surname found at the University of Bologna. Centuries later, the surname primarily came to be found in the Catalan-speaking region of ...

(c. 1435-1492), close confidant of Enrique IV, first

Duke of Alburquerque Duke of Alburquerque () is a hereditary title in the Peerage of Spain, accompanied by the dignity of Grandee and granted in 1464 by Henry IV to Beltrán de la Cueva, his "royal favourite" and grand master of the Order of Santiago. It makes ref ...

, first Count of Huelma and Ledesma, Grand Master of the

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. King

Enrique IV Henry IV of Castile ( Castilian: ''Enrique IV''; 5 January 1425 – 11 December 1474), nicknamed the Impotent, was King of Castile and León and the last of the weak late-medieval kings of Castile and León. During Henry's reign, the nobles bec ...

, in his second year as King, travelled to

and stayed with Diego. When he left this house, he took Diego's second oldest son, Beltrán, with him to stay at Court to show his gratitude to Diego. (Diego offered Beltrán after Enrique asked for Diego's oldest son Juan, whom Diego wanted to keep close by).

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Summarized and Translated from "Don Beltrán de la Cueva" https://web.archive.org/web/20070320120801/http://www.castillosdejirm.com/beltrancueva.htm * —Various (periodic publication) * * *

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