Antonio de Zúñiga
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Antonio de Zuñiga y Guzman,(c.1458 - 1533), Prior of Castile, Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, Plasencia
Plasencia
Plasencia is a walled market city in the province of Cáceres, Extremadura, Western Spain. , it had a population of 41,447.Situated on the bank of the Jerte River, Plasencia has a historic quarter that is a consequence of the city's strategic location along the Silver Route, or Ruta de la Plata...

, Spain
Spain
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, general of the Royal Army against the Revolt of the Comuneros and a Viceroy of Catalonia from 1523 - 1525.

Family background

He was one of the sons of Pedro de Zuñiga y Manrique de Lara, 3rd Count of Plasencia
Plasencia
Plasencia is a walled market city in the province of Cáceres, Extremadura, Western Spain. , it had a population of 41,447.Situated on the bank of the Jerte River, Plasencia has a historic quarter that is a consequence of the city's strategic location along the Silver Route, or Ruta de la Plata...

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His mother,Teresa de Guzman y de Guzman, daughter of Juan Alonso Perez de Guzman y Orozco, died in 1458. Then, Antonio became thus the step son of Isabel de Zuñiga y Pimentel.

Diplomatic Services

In 1519, Antonio took part in the diplomatic meetings headed by Mercurino Gattinara
Mercurino Gattinara
Mercurino Arborio marchese di Gattinara was an Italian statesman and jurist. Gattinara was a Christian, humanist, imperialist, and conservationist. He was made a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church in 1529.-Biography:...

 at Montpellier
Montpellier
-Neighbourhoods:Since 2001, Montpellier has been divided into seven official neighbourhoods, themselves divided into sub-neighbourhoods. Each of them possesses a neighbourhood council....

, France
France
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, with king Francis I
Francis I
Francis I may refer to:* Francesco I Gonzaga * Francis I, Duke of Brittany * Francis I, Duke of Lorraine * Francis I of France...

 of France representatives.

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Revolt of the Comuneros

In 1521 Antonio was general of the Royal Army who carried out military actions against the rebellious groups at Torrelobaton
Torrelobatón
Torrelobatón is a municipality located in the province of Valladolid, Castile and León, Spain. According to the 2004 census , the municipality has a population of 577 inhabitants....

, Villalar and Toledo
Toledo, Spain
Toledo's Alcázar became renowned in the 19th and 20th centuries as a military academy. At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936 its garrison was famously besieged by Republican forces.-Economy:...

. One of the results was that the Bishop of Zamora, Antonio de Acuña, was executed near Simancas
Simancas
Simancas is a town and municipality of central Spain, located in the province of Valladolid, part of the autonomous community of Castile and León...

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Further reading

  • G. MANARA. "Storia dell' Ordine di Malta ne' suoi gran maestri e cavalieri", 1846

  • HALICZER, Stephen, (1981). "The Comuneros of Castile: The Forging of a Revolution, 1475-1521". Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 0-299-08500-7.

  • PEREZ, Joseph (1998) [1970] (in French in 1970 edition; Spanish in 1978 translation). "La révolution des "Comunidades" de Castille, 1520-1521". Bordeaux: Institut d'études ibériques et ibéro-américaines de l'Université de Bordeaux. ISBN 84-323-0285-6.

  • WILKIE, William E. (July 26, 1974). "The Cardinal Protectors of England: Rome and the Tudors Before the Reformation". New York and London: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.2307/3165218. ISBN 978-0521203326.
  • http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1538-ii.htm
  • http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/baat.html

  • "Diccionario de historia eclesiástica de España. 4 vols." Dirigido por Quintín Aldea Vaquero, Tomás Marín Martínez, José Vives Gatell. Madrid : Instituto Enrique Flórez, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 1972-1975.

  • Kenneth Meyer SETTON (1984), Institut for Advanced Study, Princeton N.J. , "The Papacy and the Levant (1204-1571)" Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, Nb 161, vol 3, ISBN 9780871691613, over 505 pages for this volume.

http://books.google.es/books?id=EgQNAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR3&lpg=PR3&dq=Kenneth+M.+Setton+%281984%29,+The+Papacy+and+the+Levant+%281204-1571%29+ISBN+9780871691613&source=bl&ots=NUhQ3j846R&sig=8FXVluXOCp7IIMoFNaCj3WbDdqE&hl=es&ei=A8mdTb8NyMOEB7Tu-a8E&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false
  • Alfonso PARDO MANUEL DE VILLENA, Fernando SUAREZ DE TANGIL: "Indice de caballeros de la Orden de San Juan de Malta, del Priorato de Castilla, desde 1514 hasta la fecha", (1911), edition of 1932, 126 pages, Imprt. Torrent, Madrid.

Dewey Decimal Class 929.7110946
Library of Congress CR4731.S7 R3
Open Library
OL6290003M
LC Control Number
33013867
OCLC/WorldCat
7446789

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Don Alfonso Pardo Manuel de Villena, (Madrid 18.8.1876, + 1955), was a Knight of the Order of Saint John of Malta, he was 10th Marquis of Rafal through his mother, A Grandee of Spain and an Academician of the Spanish Real Academia de la Historia
Real Academia de la Historia
Real Academia de la Historia is a Spanish institution based in Madrid that studies history "ancient and modern, political, civil, ecclesiastical, military, scientific, of letters and arts, that is to say, the different branches of life, of civilisation, and of the culture of the Spanish...

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  • DE TAUBE, Professor Baron Michel. L'Empereur Paul I de Russie, Grand Maître de l'Ordre de Malte, et son Grand Prieuré Russe, Paris, 1955.

  • KARNOVICH, Eugeme, Knights of Malta in Russia, St Petersburg, 1880.
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