Íñigo López de Mendoza y Zúñiga
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Don Íñigo López de Mendoza y Zúñiga (Miranda de Ebro, 1476 - 9 June 1535), cardinal, archbishop of Burgos, bishop of Coria and abbot of Santa Maria de la Vid, was a Castilian clergyman and diplomat in the service of Emperor Charles V.
Don Iñigo was the second son of Don Pedro de Zúñiga, 2nd Count of Miranda, and Catalina Velasco. Although a Zúñiga, he was named Mendoza after his grandmother Mencia de Mendoza. In 1526 he went as ambassador for Charles V to England, where he resided at the court of Henry VIII. On his way there, he was arrested for 4 months by the French. Due to detoriating relations between Charles and Henry, he was arrested and imprisoned on 10 February 1528, and was only rarely allowed to send letters. After this, he asked for his recall both because of bad health and because the English didn't trust him. He was allowed to quit England in May 1529 and was succeeded in his post by Eustace Chapuys. After that he went to Italy, where he witnessed Charles' coronation to Holy Roman Emperor at Bologna in 1530. That same year he was also made a cardinal.
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- José Pablo Alzina, Embajadores de España en Londres. Una guía de retratos de la embajada de España (Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores, Madrid 2001)
