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6 unusual facts about Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba


Alonso de Aragón

His father made him Lieutenant General of the Kingdom of Naples in 1507, to replace Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba.

Alonso III Fonseca

He presided over his father’s funeral in 1512, at which Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, known as "The Great Captain", attended, and Fernández de Córdoba symbolically offered his weapons to Saint James the Great (Santiago) at the funeral.

Bartolomeo Fanfulla

At the end of the battle, he was knighted by the Spanish potestà (chief magistrate) Consalvo di Cordoba.

Gilbert, Count of Montpensier

He was made the Viceroy of Naples in 1495 by king Charles VIII of France after the conquest, losing it that same year to an allied Neapolitan/Spanish army commanded by Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba.

Gonzalo Fernández

Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba (1453–1515) known as el Gran Capitán, Castilian general and statesman

Juana de la Cruz Vázquez Gutiérrez

As Abbess and Pastor she mentored and spiritually directed Cardinal Cisneros, Emperor Carlos V, Juan I of Austria, Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba well as many noble men and women, clerics, religious and lay people.



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