Enrique Pérez de Guzmán, 2nd Count of Niebla
Enrique Pérez de Guzmán y de Castilla, 2nd Count of Niebla (in full, Spanish: Enrique Pérez de Guzmán y de Castilla, segundo conde de Niebla, señor de Sanlúcar de Barrameda) (20 February 1391 – 31 August 1436)[1] [2] was a Spanish nobleman and military figure of the Reconquista. He drowned while attempting the Seventh Siege of Gibraltar.
Biography
[edit]He was the son of Juan Alonso de Guzmán and of Beatriz de Castilla y Ponce de León, Lady of Niebla (died 1409), an illegitimate daughter of Henry II of Castile and of Beatriz Ponce de León.
On 4 March 1405 he married Teresa Suárez de Figueroa y Orozco, Lady of Escamilla and Santa Olalla, daughter of Lorenzo Suarez de Figueroa, Master of the Military Order of Santiago, and of Maria de Orozco.
In 1418, he bought the Lordship of the Canary Islands from its conquerer Jean de Béthencourt.[3]
In 1430, he transferred ownership of the Canary islands of El Hierro, Fuerteventura and Lanzarote to Hernan Peraza the Elder, who had the rights to the remaining, not yet conquered islands. This move helped Peraza to unify all islands the Lordship of the Canary Islands and strengthen the Peraza family's footing during the islands' conquest.[4]
The count drowned while besieging Gibraltar on 31 August 1436. This was the Seventh Siege of Gibraltar then the isthmus was under the control of the Spanish Moors.
References
[edit]- ^ Joseph F. O'Callaghan, The Last Crusade in the West: Castile and the Conquest of Granada (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014) p.80 ("He stormed the beach at low tide on 31 August 1436, but as the tide came in he withdrew to his ships and died trying to save some of his men from drowning.")
- ^ "La 'Muy casta duena de manos crueles': Juan de Mena y los Guzmanes andaluces", by Juan Luis Carriazo Rubio", in Juan de Mena de letrado a poeta, Cristina Moya García, ed. (Tamesis, 2015) p.34 ISBN 9781855662605 ("Sobre el segundo conde de Niebla nos dice que 'fue sue muerte en 31 de agosto, año 1436, y en este dia se haze anivercario con much solemnidad por su anima en su monasterio de San Isidro del Campo.'" "About the second Count of Niebla, he tells us that 'his death was on August 31, 1436, and on this day a very solemn anniversary is celebrated for his soul in his monastery of San Isidro del Campo.'"
- ^ Proyecto Tarha
- ^ "Historia de la conquista de las siete islas de Gran Canaria :: Memoria Digital de Canarias - Textos". Archived from the original on 2018-12-12. Retrieved 2020-05-26.
Sources
[edit]- "Enrique de Guzmán" (in Spanish). Real Academia de la Historia. Retrieved 29 January 2025.
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