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Doña Elvira Manuel de Villena Suárez de Figueroa (c.after 1444–c.after 1506) was a Spanish court official. She served as duenna of Catherine of Aragon. Elvira Manuel was a Castilian noblewoman, married to Don Pedro Manuel. She was described as stern and proud.
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A medieval depiction of Elvira. Elvira (1038 or 1039 – 15 November 1101) [citation needed] was a Leonese infanta and the Lady of Toro, Zamora, [1] the daughter of Ferdinand I of León and Castile [2] and Sancha of León, [3] [4] and granddaughter-namesake of Elvira Menéndez, and also an aunt of Elvira of Castile, Queen of Sicily.
Primitive coat of arms of the House of Lara. The House of Lara (Spanish: Casa de Lara) is a noble family from the medieval Kingdom of Castile.Two of its branches, one of the Dukes of Nájera and one of the Marquises of Aguilar de Campoo were considered Grandees of Spain.
Elvira, Mistress of the Dark famously wants to be remembered by two simple words.But when all is said and done, Cassandra Peterson only asks that people remember her buxom alter ego by three ...
Elvira returned to Castile. Her son became the monarch of Tripoli upon the death of Raymond in 1105, but Elvira is not mentioned as present in Tripoli. In Castile, before 1117, she married Count Fernando Fernández de Carrión , having three additional children: Diego, García and Teresa Fernández, who was a wife of Count Osorio Martínez .
Elvira de Mendoza (d. 1523), was a Spanish and Portuguese court official. She was the daughter of the nobleman Juan Furtado de Mendoza, chief forester of Ferdinand and Isabella , and married Martin de Alarcon, captain of the guard to the king and queen of Castile.
Elvira and Bermudo II had three children: Alfonso V;; Sancha Bermúdez, who lived in Galicia; [10] Teresa Bermúdez (died on April 25, 1039). [10] In 1017, she confirmed her mother's grant to Santiago de Compostela, and she and her sister Sancha were involved in a lawsuit over the monastery of Santa Eulalia de Fingoy the same year. [11]