• The ricohombre (a magnate, literally, a Spanish word for "richman") was a high ranking nobility title in mediaeval kingdoms on the territories of modern...
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    30 August 1482 to Don Pedro Manrique de Lara, II Count of Treviño and Ricohombre de Castilla, as a reward for his services to the Crown. In 1520, King...
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    Cortés, baron and lord of Arroniz, Sartaguda, Viana and Villatuerta, ricohombre of Navarre, and regent of the Kingdom of Navarre from 13 March 1328 until...
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    continues to bestow this honor. ricohombre (fem. Ricahembra): used during the Reconquista. The transition from ricohombres to grandes occurred between 1390...
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    nobility hold the appellation of Grandee of Spain and was known earlier as ricohombres. In Sweden, the wealthiest medieval lords were known as storman (plural...
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    Gregorio and Cavañuelas, knight, a member of the 12 lineages of Soria and a ricohombre of Castile. He died at the siege of Malaga on 7 June 1487. Diego López...
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    was a troop of the Royal House. Mesnadero's were the cadet sons of a Ricohombre. The kings granted Álvar Diaz de Medrano a certain income with the obligation...
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    the oldest hereditary mayorazgo in Viana, Spain. Juan is the son of the ricohombre Álvar Díaz de Medrano y Almoravid. Juan Vélaz de Medrano was active in...
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    campaigns in Cordoba. The house was founded by Don Men Paez Sorred, a Ricohombre of Alfonso VII of Castile. By the mid 13th century, Ferdinand III of Castile...
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  • and who gave the family name Correia also spelled as "Correa". He was Ricohombre of Alfonso VI of León and Castile Paio Peres Correia, Grand-Master of...
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    Navarre in 1328 AD, Baron and Lord of Arroniz, Sartaguda and Villatuerta, ricohombre of Navarre. Diego López de Medrano y Hurtado de Mendoza, 14th century...
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    Pérez de Lara and Teresa Fernández de Traba, was a high ranking noble (ricohombre) and prominent member of the powerful House of Lara, one of the principals...
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    Vélaz de Medrano was the Lord of Iguzquiza, the 2nd Lord of Learza, and a ricohombre of Navarre. In 1455, the king gave Ferran Vélaz de Medrano the Pechas...
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  • de Zúñiga (Valladolid, c. 1383 - Valladolid, 1453). He was a wealthy (ricohombre) Castilian man of the House of Zúñiga, and was the son of Diego López...
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    died in 1429, Alonso Fadrique inherited his estate and titles, including ricohombre, Master of Order of Santiago, lord of Medina de Rioseco, Castro Verde...
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    grandfather Ferran Velaz de Medrano was the Lord of Learza and Iguzquiza, ricohombre of Navarre. He rebuilt the castle of Veláz de Medrano into a fortified...
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    Rodrigo Gutiérrez Girón (died 1193) was a magnate and ricohombre from Palencia who played a key role in the Medieval history of the Iberian Peninsula....
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    Vélaz de Medrano was the Lord of Iguzquiza, the 2nd Lord of Learza, and a ricohombre of Navarre. In 1455, the king gave Ferran Vélaz de Medrano the Pechas...
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    Insam y Sufam y de la Quinta and Torre de Silva, was a knight who became ”Ricohombre”, who probably, took part in the conquest of Cordoba, too, in 1064. But...
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    brother of Nuño González de Lara y León, lord of Estella-Lizarra and ricohombre of Castile, of Teresa Núñez de Lara y León who married Gil Gómez de Roa...
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    Medrano y Bravo de Lagunas was born into high nobility. Her father was the ricohombre Don Diego López de Medrano y Vergara, Lord of San Gregorio in Almarza...
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  • (after whom she was probably named) and her maternal grandparents were the Ricohombre Alfonso Alfonso de Meneses "the Tizón" and Mayor González Girón. In addition...
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    early 15th century there were only fifteen powerful families known as ricohombres (high ranking nobility) of Castile and León. The House of Diego López...
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    His father Pedro Iñiguez was from the illustrious house of Medrano, ricohombres and ancient Navarrese high nobility from the Kingdom of Navarre. The...
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  • regent of the Kingdom of Navarre, lieutenant of the Governor of Navarre, ricohombre, Baron and Lord of Sartaguda Juan Martínez de Ampiés (died 1533), Spanish...
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    Province of Pontevedra, Galicia founded by Mendo Páez de Sorred, the Ricohombre of King Alfonso VII of León and Castile. García Méndez was one of the...
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    Medrano, Mayordomo mayor of Empress Dona Isabel, and the grandson of the ricohombre Diego López de Medrano y Vergara, lord of San Gregorio and Cavañuelas...
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    peñon y caldera) upon admittance to the upper crust of nobility, the ricohombres. Woodward & Burnett suggest to count the caldron among the military charges...
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    Diego was born into the ancient House of Medrano, high nobility and ricohombres from the Kingdom of Navarre and Castile; and the House of Zúñiga on his...
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    Juan Martínez de Medrano y Hurtado de Mendoza. Diego was born into a ricohombre and political family of noble lineage. On his paternal side, Diego belongs...
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