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3 unusual facts about Estella


Laura Mintegi

Laura Mintegi Lakarra (Estella-Lizarra, Navarre, October 26, 1955) is a Basque author, politician and a professor at the University of the Basque Country.

Palacio de los Reyes de Navarra

Palacio de los Reyes de Navarra, Estella, Romanesque former royal palace of the Kings and Queens of Navarre from the late twelfth century to the mid-fifteenth

Prado de Irache

This Vino de Pago is located in the municipality of Ayegui, near the town of Estella in the Foral Community of Navarra, Spain).


Arínzano

This Vino de Pago is located in the municipality of Aberin (Merindad de Estella), in the Foral Community of Navarra, Spain).

Arvilla, North Dakota

The community was first named Orange for Orange County, New York; it was renamed Arvilla for Arvilla Estella Hersey, the wife of a local farmer.

Charles M. White

Charles M. White was born in June 1891 in Oakland, Maryland, to Charles Franklin and Estella Virginia (Jarboe) White.

George Cave, 1st Viscount Cave

Lord Cave married Anne Estella Sarah Penfold Mathews, daughter of William Withey Mathews and sister of Sir Lloyd Mathews, in 1885.

Helena Barlow

In 2012, she starred as Estella, in Mike Newell's Great Expectations alongside Helena Bonham Carter and Ralph Fiennes.

Henry Hopkinson, 1st Baron Colyton

After his first wife's death in 1953 he married, secondly, Barbara Estella Barb, who had previously been married to cartoonist Charles Addams, in 1956.

Henry I of Navarre

Henry initially sought to recover territory lost to Castile by assisting the revolt of Philip, brother of Alfonso X of Castile, in 1270, but eventually declined, preferring to establish an alliance with Castile through the marriage of his son Theobald to Violant of Castile, daughter of Alfonso X. This failed with the death of the young Theobald after he fell from a battlement at the castle of Estella in 1273.

Juan Fernández Navarrete

He received his first instructions in art from Fray Vicente de Santo Domingo, a Hieronymite monk at Estella, and also with Becerra.

Lordship of Albarracín

In 1167, under the pressure from the ongoing wars between the Almoravid Dynasty and the new invasions of the Almohad Caliphate, the Moorish King Muhammad ibn Mardanis (nicknamed the Robber King), ceded the Taifa of Albarracín to a vassal of Sancho VI of Navarre, a noble from Estella-Lizarra named Pedro Ruiz de Azagra.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Segorbe-Castellón

In 1172 Pedro Ruiz de Azagra, son of the Lord of Estella, took the city of Albarracín, and succeeded in establishing there a bishop (Martín), who took the title of Arcabricense, and afterwards that of Segorbicense, thinking that Albarracín was nearer to the ancient Segorbe than to Ercavica or Arcabrica.

Woodbridge Nathan Ferris

Ferris was born to John Ferris Jr. and Estella (Reed) Ferris in a log cabin near Spencer, New York and attended the academies of Spencer, Candor, and Owego (see autobiography posted on Ferris State University Webpage. Owego and Oswego are frequently confused.), and the Oswego Normal Training School (now State University of New York at Oswego) from 1870–1873.


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