Ruy López de Dávalos

Ruy López Dávalos (Úbeda, Jaén Province, Spain, 1357 - in exile, Valencia, Spain, 1428), Count of Ribadeo, Adelantado of Murcia, 1396, Constable of Castile, 1400–1423, during the reigns of kings Henry III of Castile and John II of Castile. He was very attached to king Henry III's uncle, Ferdinand of Antequera, afterwards elected king Ferdinand I of Aragon, reigning from 1412 to 1416. He was attached then to one of Ferdinand's troublesome sons, Infante Henry of Aragon (1400–1445).

Biography He was born in Úbeda as son of Diego López, into a family of minor nobility who had emigrated from Navarre in the 13th century. As Úbeda was at the time a bordertown with the Emirate of Granada, he received the education befitting the "frontier guards" who were responsible for repelling Granadan attacks and also carrying out raids. In one of these operations, undertaken by Ruy's uncle, Pedro López Dávalos, warden of Quesada, he was taken prisoner in 1379 and held captive in Granada for several months.

Marriage and children

Ruy Lopez d'Avalos married 3 time :

First to María de Fontecha. They had: Pedro Dávalos, Señor de Valhenoso, Avinante, Rosales y Villarrodrigo, married Maria de Orozco Suarez de Figueroa Diego Dávalos, Señor de Valhenoso, Villarrodrigo y otros ..., married Leonor de Ayala y Castañeda de los Señores de Escamilla Leonor Dávalos, married to Men Rodriguez, Señor de Santisteban del Puerto, later became 1st Conde de Santisteban del Puerto, the ancestors of the Ducal house of Santisteban del Puerto.

Secondly in 1395 to Elvira de Guevara. They had: Beltrán López Dávalos y Guevara. Constanza de Guevara. Hernando López de Ávalos, Lord of Arcos de la Frontera, married to María Carrillo Palomeque, had issue. Mencía Dávalos, married to Gabriel Fernández Manrique, Count of Osorno.

Thirdly to Constanza de Tovar y Toledo. They had: Íñigo Dávalos (1414–1484), Gran Camarlengo of Naples. Started the Italian branch of the Dávalos family. Alfonso Dávalos Rodrigo López Dávalos y Tovar, married to María Carrillo.