- Alonso Manrique de Lara
Alfonso or Alonso Manrique de Lara y Solís, (
Segura de León inBadajoz ,Spain , 1471? but before 1476 - Sevilla, 28 September 1538),Bishop of Badajoz , (September 1499 until before 1516) was a Spanish churchman. He wasBishop of Cordoba , (August 1516 - 1523), andArchbishop of Seville (from August 1523). He wasInquisitor general (September 1523 onwards) as a successor ofAdrian of Utrecht , (later Pope Adrian VI] , and cardinal priest in Rome chosen around February - April 1531. Died on September 28, 1538, Sevilla, of a fall from a horse.He seems to be a son from the third marriage of famous
Rodrigo Manrique with a Solís-Castañeda woman , (1404 -Ocaña , 1476), being therefore a very young step brother of famous poetJorge Manrique de Lara, (circa 1440 - 1479, sieging the castle ofGarcimuñoz )References
*P. RUBIO. "Manrique de Lara, Alonso." in" Diccionario de historia eclesiástica de España". 4 vols and Supplement. Dir.Quintín Aldea Vaquero, Tomás Marín Martínez, José Vives Gatell. Madrid : Instituto Enrique Flórez, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 1972-1975, III, 1480.
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