Pedro de Portocarrero

Pedro de Portocarrero y Osorio?, Bishop of Calahorra,(March 1589 - January 1594), Bishop of Cordoba, (1594 - 1597), Bishop of Cuenca, (May 1597 - September 1600), Inquisitor General, (1596 - 1599), against King Felipe II of Spain Aragonese Secretary Antonio Pérez,(1539 - in exile in France, 1611), the son of Secretary of the Council of State of King Charles I of Spain, (who was also Holy Roman Emperor), Gonzalo Pérez.

The "Portocarrero" came from Portugal and another portuguese - ascent family, "Pacheco", powerfully settled in Spanish Politics during the XV Century "brought back legally" such a name during the second half of the XV Century.

He was probably one of the cadet sons of Juan de Portocarrero y Portocarrero, the wealthy IX Señor of Moguer, the Andalusian atlantic harbor who hosted the travels of Christopher Columbus to America, married to powerful merchant woman María Osorio and I Marqués of Villanueva del Fresno, province of Badajoz, title awarded in 1530 by King Charles I of Spain, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, and Señor also of Barcarrota,province of Badajoz, by purchase, since 1539.

He was honoured by mystical poet Frey Luis de León, or Fray Luis Ponce de León, (sometimes Luis de León) (born Belmonte, in Cuenca province, of the Castilian region of La Mancha, Spain, in 1527 – 23 August 1591), suspicious to the Inquisition , with Jewish "conversos" ascendency, with what is described as "Oda II" from Frey Luis poetical works.There are also another "Oda XV" and "Oda XXII", both easily found through Internet.

References

*http://www.maderuelo.com/siglo12/heraldica/heraldica_p.html
*http://www.recolecta.net/buscador/single_page.jsp?id=oai:dialnet.unirioja.es:ART0000131339
*Juan Antonio LLORENTE. "Historia crítica de la Inquisición de España: Obra original conforme á lo que resulta de los archivos del Real Consejo de la Suprema, y de los tribunales del Santo-oficio de las provincias".Publicado por en la Imprenta del Censor, (1822)"Digitized by Google 12 Sep 2007"'.