Álvaro Yáñez de Lugo y Monterroso was a 15th-century Spanish nobleman from the house of Lugo in Galicia. He was a doncel in the royal court, later a knight and señor in Medina del Campo, royal chamberlain in Castile and royal scribe in Galicia. In his later years, he forged official documents with the help of a scribe, whom he killed. Despite his pleas, he was sentenced to die by Isabella I of Castile, an event which has been widely reported as idiosyncratic of the Queen's personality.[1][2] In that context, Yáñez has been described as "a member of the petty nobility whose ancient responsibility for local justice the Monarchs sough to suppress".[2] His illegitimate son was conquistadorFrancisco de Lugo.
In his later years, he was discovered to have committed forgery by asking a scribe to falsify official documents. He had then murdered the scribe and buried him in his house.[2] For his crimes, he was sentenced to death by the Queen of Castile, Isabella I. He offered 40,000 doblas in exchange for a commutation of his sentence. Although her counsellors advised her to accept the plea, Isabella did not.[1] De Lugo was executed and his lands, titles and possessions were inherited by his legitimate children. The event is described in Hernando del Pulgar's Crónica de los Reyes Católicos.[1][2]
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He was married to Juana Gutiérrez de Montalvo y Bobadilla and had several children. His official successor was Antonio de Lugo Rivera y Guzmán.[3] Yáñez de Lugo's illegitimate son was Francisco de Lugo, a conquistador who fought alongside Hernán Cortés and died in Veracruz in 1532.[4]
^ abcPrescott, William Hickling (1840). History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella (7th ed.). Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown. p. 191.
^ abcdWeissberger, Barbara F. (2008). Queen Isabel I of Castile: Power, Patronage, Persona. Tamesis Books. p. 153. ISBN9781855661592.
^ abcdGándara, Felipe de la (1677). Nobiliario, armas, y triunfos de Galicia, hechos heroicos de sus hijos, y elegios de su nobleza y de la mayor de España, y Europa: dedicado al maestre de campo don Antonio Lopez de Quiroga (in Spanish). Julián de Paredes. pp. 502–503.
^Díaz del Castillo, Bernal (1844). The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Díaz del Castillo. J. Hatchard and Son. p. 372.
October 31, 2023
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