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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 ...
, Jaén Province, Spain, 1357 - in exile,
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, Spain, 1428), Count of Ribadeo since it was sold by the first count, the Frenchman Pierre de Villaines, who received it from
Henry II of Castile Henry II (13 January 1334 – 29 May 1379), called Henry of Trastámara or the Fratricidal (''el Fratricida''), was the first List of Castilian monarchs, King of Castile and List of Leonese monarchs, León from the House of Trastámara. He became ...
on 20 December 1369,
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of
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, 1396,
Constable of Castile Constable of Castile () was a title of a military nature created by John I, King of Castile in 1382, as a result of the Third Fernandine War against the Portuguese and the English. The post substituted the title of ''Alférez Mayor del Reino'' ...
, 1400–1423, during the reigns of kings
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and
John II of Castile John II of Castile (; 6 March 1405 – 20 July 1454) was King of Castile and León from 1406 to 1454. He succeeded his older sister, Maria of Castile, Queen of Aragon, as Prince of Asturias in 1405. Regency John was the son of King Henry ...
. He was very attached to king Henry III's uncle, Ferdinand of Antequera, afterwards elected king
Ferdinand I of Aragon Ferdinand I (Spanish: ''Fernando I''; 27 November 1380 – 2 April 1416 in Igualada, Òdena) named Ferdinand of Antequera and also the Just (or the Honest) was king of Aragon, Valencia, Majorca, Sardinia and (nominal) Corsica and king of Sicil ...
, king 1412-1416. He was attached then to one of Ferdinand's troublesome sons, Infante Henry of Aragon (1400–1445).


Infante Henry of Aragon's contemptuousness with his cousin king John II of Castile

In November 1420, Infante Henry of Aragon headed a plot in
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to capture his young cousin, king
John II of Castile John II of Castile (; 6 March 1405 – 20 July 1454) was King of Castile and León from 1406 to 1454. He succeeded his older sister, Maria of Castile, Queen of Aragon, as Prince of Asturias in 1405. Regency John was the son of King Henry ...
, (1405–1454), and get himself married to his cousin
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, John II's sister. The fact that his father Prince Fernando de Antequera had been promoted to elected king of Aragon in 1412, and the still very extensive properties of his father in Castile, prompted him to impose his (contemptuous) will on his rather quiet cousin, the king John II. Further Prince Henry of Aragon had married king John II of Castile's sister, Catherine, being provided there and then with extensive properties and money which made Prince Henry, probably, to be above everything and everybody around him. The meddling of king
Ferdinand I of Aragon Ferdinand I (Spanish: ''Fernando I''; 27 November 1380 – 2 April 1416 in Igualada, Òdena) named Ferdinand of Antequera and also the Just (or the Honest) was king of Aragon, Valencia, Majorca, Sardinia and (nominal) Corsica and king of Sicil ...
's children, known as the
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; Henry,
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, Alfonso (king
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1416-1458) and John (later king
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, 1458–1479), plus the behavior of their sisters, Catherine, Queen Consort of Castile, and
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, seems to have brought havoc to the Iberian Peninsula. Eldest brother, king Alfonso V, left the Iberian Peninsula around 1430, leaving his wife,
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, (1401–1458), the sister of king John II of Castile, and his meddling and impulsive brother, John, later king John II of Aragon, to live in Naples, Italy, doing military expeditions to conquer "manu militari" former fiefs of the Aragonese Crown and leading a sexual life there without bothering at all with his Queen, Marie of Castile, king John II of Castile's sister and having in Naples bastard royal children with a few women from the Italian nobility did not help either.


Sorting out Henry of Aragon by Álvaro de Luna

There was a loyal but ambitious, albeit modest Castilian nobleman, a bastard from Aragonese nobility stock, known as
Álvaro de Luna Álvaro de Luna y Fernández de Jarava (between 1388 and 13902 June 1453), was a Castilian statesman, favourite of John II of Castile. He served as Constable of Castile and as Grand Master of the Order of Santiago. He earned great influence in ...
who helped king John II of Castile to fight hard and many times successfully against his scourging cousins, males and females, in 1423. They questioned however the nobility and the ancestry of faithful Álvaro, forgetting that the " Trastámara" royal families ruling in Castile and in Aragon then and there, and the questionable grips of feudal power of the now royal family, the Enriquez family, could trace their roots, less than 50 years earlier, 1369, in bastardy, violence and questionable powers, including the assassination of "legal" king
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in
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, in March 1369. Not to mention their dangerous marriages involving closed endogamy relationships. To be brief, Alvaro let it be known López Dávalos negotiations with the Muslim subjects of the vassal
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, quite near of the
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territories held by the Constable, whether they were real or just a political concoctions, to become thus the undisputed protector of the young king of Castile and getting rid of the close involvement of López Dávalos with the Aragonese cousins of the king. The trick worked and Rui López Dávalos had to go into the
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, dying with the weight of a discredited life between 1423 and 1428.


The outcome of the exiled López Dávalos family after 1428

16th century
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politician
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, the son of a certain Ruy López Dávalos and
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, grandson of a certain
Hernándo López de Avalos Hernándo is a Spanish masculine given name, and may refer to: * Hernándo Cortés de Monroy Pizarro (1485-1547), Spanish conquistador * Hernándo Pizarro (circa 1508-1608), Spanish conquistador See also * Hernando (disambiguation) Hernando is a c ...
, (Dávalos), and Mª Carrillo y Palomeque, and the great grandson of Count of Ribadeo and Constable of Castile till 1423, Ruy López Dávalos, the great great grandson of Diego López Dávalos who together with brother Pedro López Dávalos came from
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, daughter of
Lope Fernández Dávalos Lope is an old given name of Basque, Gascon and Spanish origin, derived from Latin ''lupus'', meaning "wolf". Lope may refer to: *Lope de Isásaga (1493–1515), Basque Spanish ''conquistador'' *Lope de Aguirre (1510s – 1561), Basque Spanish ''c ...
, Mayor of the town of
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, Jaén Province), in the year 1300. This year 1300 people in Ubeda came from Basque-Navarrese settlers in Andalusia since about the 1230s, the well known family of the
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- Díaz de Haro,
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between about 1076 and the middle of the 14th century. Hernando Dávalos made part of the well documented Toledo " Comuneros" fighting against the extra tax contributions, circa 1518, asked for by king
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(
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Charles V) to bend the wishes of the German Electors in his wishes of becoming a Holy Roman Emperor. His properties in Toledo were seized and sold publicly to pay for the military efforts trying to make them obedient to 18-year-old king Charles, born in Ghent, Flanders, an aspiring, and successful, Holy Roman Emperor. A few male descendants of the family emigrated earlier to Italy, including
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island, around 1430 and became there important people of the nobility for over 400 years or so, using names approaching the Spanish spelling of the name, but no necessarily with the same exact graphical signs. The genealogical descent is as follows: 1. Ruy Lopez d'Avalos, Count of Ribadeo, Constable of Castile (1357–1421), married firstly to Maria Gutierrez de Fontechecha; secondly 1395 to Elvira de Guevara; married thirdly to Constanza de Tovar y Toledo, de Los Senores de tierra de la Reina 1.1. (first marriage),
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, Pedro Dávalos in Spanish, Señor de Valhenoso, Avinante,
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y Villarrodrigo, married Maria de Orozco Suarez de Figueroa 1.2.
Diego D'Avalos Diego is a Spanish masculine given name. The Portuguese equivalent is Diogo. The etymology of Diego is disputed, with two major origin hypotheses: ''Tiago'' and ''Didacus''. The name also has several patronymic derivations, listed below. ...
, Diego Dávalos in Spanish, Señor de Valhenoso, Villarrodrigo y otros ..., married Leonor de Ayala y Castañeda de los Señores de Escamilla 1.3.
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, married to Men Rodriguez, Señor de
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, later became 1st Conde de Santisteban del Puerto, the ancestors of the ''Ducal house of Santisteban del Puerto''. 1.4. (Second marriage)
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, married to Isabel de Castilla y Castro, no issue. 1.5 Giovanni de Guevara, Juan de Guevara, Secreto of
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island and
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island. In 1460, married Paola Inguanez,
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Some references

*http://www.fmschmitt.com/travels/spain/Jaen_province/Ubeda *Ruy López Dávalos, adelantado de Murcia y condestable de Castilla, Ubeda Información, nº 468, 28 de marzo de 2009, pags 2 y 3. {{DEFAULTSORT:Lopez Davalos, Ruy 1357 births 1428 deaths 14th-century Castilian nobility 15th-century Castilian nobility People from Jaén, Spain Counts of Spain 14th-century Italian nobility 15th-century Italian nobility