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The Mendoza family was a powerful line of Spanish nobles. Members of the family wielded considerable power, especially from the 14th to the 17th centuries in Castile . The family originated from the village of Mendoza ( Basque mendi+oza , 'cold mountain') in the province of Álava in the Basque countries .
Coat of arms of the House of Mendoza. Diego Hurtado de Mendoza y Luna, 3rd Duke of the Infantado, nicknamed El Grande, (Arenas de San Pedro, Spain, 11 March 1461 – Guadalajara, Castile-La Mancha, Spain, 30 August 1531) was a Spanish noble. He was born in one of the richest and most influential families of Castile.
Mendoza is a Basque surname, also occurring as a place name. The name Mendoza means "cold mountain", derived from the Basque words mendi ( mountain ) and (h)otz (cold) + definite article -a ( Mendoza being mendi+(h)otza).
Depiction of founding myth from the post-Conquest Mendoza Codex. Teocalli of the Sacred War sculpted in 1325 In 1960, the Mexican ornithologist Rafael Martín del Campo identified the eagle in the pre-Hispanic codex as the crested caracara or "quebrantahuesos" (bonebreaker), a species common in Mexico (although the name "eagle" is taxonomically ...
In a silver field: pictogram of Colima present in the Mendoza Codex, which "is a human arm, in its color, separated from the body, with the symbol of water on the shoulder and that has a blue bracelet with a red line. [3] Border: filiera in gules (red).
A noble house is an aristocratic family or kinship group, either currently or historically of national or international significance [clarification needed], and usually associated with one or more hereditary titles, the most senior of which will be held by the "Head of the House" or patriarch.
Crest: A Sun of May or: Shield: Party per fess azure and argent, in base two arms throughout fessways, the hands shaking and holding a pike paleways proper ensigned on the top with a Phrygian cap gules. Other elements: Around the shield two sprigs of laurel vert tied together in base by a ribbon azure charged with a fess argent
Portrait of Francisco de Mendoza by a painter of the school of Daniël van den Queborn. Francisco López de Mendoza y Mendoza (Granada, 1547 – Madrid, 1 March 1623), in the literature often simply referred to as Francisco de Mendoza, was a Spanish nobleman, diplomat, general, and eventually bishop, who briefly played an important role in the Eighty Years' War.