Diego Fernández De Ovando
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''Fray'' Diego Fernández de Ovando was a Spanish
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and nobleman.


Life

Diego Fernández de Ovando was a son of Fernando Fernández de Ovando, second son, and wife Francisca de Ulloa, and paternal grandson of Fernando Fernández de Ovando, 1st Count of Torrelaguna and 1st Count of Uceda, and wife Ora Blázquez Trillo, Lady of Talamanca. He was a Professed
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of the
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of
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,
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of Lares at the time of
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Don Nuno Chamiço elected in 1338. He had a natural son, Fernando Alfón de Ovando.


Sources

*Cunha, Fernando de Castro Pereira Mouzinho de Albuquerque e (1906-1998), ''Instrumentário Genealógico - Linhagens Milenárias''. MCMXCV, p. 401 {{DEFAULTSORT:Fernandez De Ovando, Diego Spanish untitled nobility Knights of the Order of Alcántara