Antonio de Luna y de Xérica (deceased in
Mequinenza,
Aragón, in 1419) was an Aragonese nobleman, Lord of
Almonacid,
Loarre,
Morés,
Pola and
Rueda. He was leader of the supporters of
James II of Urgell in the
Kingdom of Aragon
The Kingdom of Aragon (; ; ; ) was a medieval and early modern Monarchy, kingdom on the Iberian Peninsula, corresponding to the modern-day Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Aragon, in Spain. It became a part of the larger ...
after the death without sons of
Martin I of Aragon.
Family
He was the only son of
Pedro Martínez de Luna y Saluzzo and
Elfa de Xérica y Arborea (illegitimate descendant of
James I of Aragón and
Roger of Lauria
Roger of Lauria (''c''. 1245 – 17 January 1305), was a Calabrian knight who served the Crown of Aragon as admiral of the Aragonese navy during the War of the Sicilian Vespers. He was probably the most successful and talented naval tacticia ...
). He had kinship with the Aragonese queen consort
Maria de Luna and the anti-pope
Benedict XIII.
He married
Aldonza de Luna y Ximénez de Urrea. After she died, in 1409 he married
Leonor Cervelló. They had one daughter,
Elfa de Luna y Cervelló.
Political life
In 1396 he was a member of the embassy for
Martin I of Aragon when he was crowned King. Martin I knighted de Luna. During the "war of factions", he led his family's faction against the Urrea family. When Martin I died, he supported
James II of Urgell in his unsuccessful candidacy to the throne.
In 1411, he and a gang of men murdered the Archbishop of Zaragoza,
García Fernández de Heredia, an ally of the child candidate
Louis of Anjou. This action earned him
excommunication
Excommunication is an institutional act of religious censure used to deprive, suspend, or limit membership in a religious community or to restrict certain rights within it, in particular those of being in Koinonia, communion with other members o ...
and damaged James.
Finally, in the
compromise of Caspe,
Ferdinand of Antequera became King. De Luna accepted the decision, but later rebelled along with the count of Urgell. The rebellion was defeated and Antón de Luna was dispossessed of his properties and arrested in
Mequinenza.
References
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Lords in Spain
1419 deaths
14th-century Aragonese nobility
15th-century Aragonese nobility
Knights in the Crown of Aragon
Year of birth unknown