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2 unusual facts about Gómez Manrique


Gómez Manrique

He inherited the literary taste of his uncle Iñigo López de Mendoza y de la Vega, Marquis of Santillana, and was greatly esteemed in his own age; but his reputation was afterwards eclipsed by that of his nephew Jorge Manrique (died 1478), the son of his eldest brother Rodrigo Manrique de Lara, (died 1476), and whose Coplas por la muerte de su padre were continually reproduced.

Gómez Manrique y de Castilla, known as Gómez Manrique (c. 1412 – c. 1490), was a Spanish poet, soldier, politician and dramatist born in Amusco.


Treviño

In 1453 it became the Condado de Treviño as Gómez Manrique, the great-grandson of Pedro Manrique was given the title of Count.


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