Luis Fajardo de Córdoba

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Don Luis Fajardo de Córdoba was a Spanish Conquistador, military and nobleman.

He was a second son of Don Luis Ybáñez Fajardo de la Cueva, 2nd Marquess of los Vélez and wife Dona Leonor Fernández de Córdoba.

He was Captain-General of the Armada of the Ocean Sea, Conqueror of La Mamora, who brought to Spain seventy million of gold and silver, Knight of Calatrava and Commander of Moral.

He married at Murcia dona Luisa de Entenza y Cascales Pacheco, Lady of Espinardo. They were the parents of Don Juan Fajardo de Entenza y de Guevara, Córdoba y Velasco, 1st Marquess of Espinardo, and Don Alonso Fajardo de Entenza y de Guevara, Córdoba y Velasco, Spanish Governor-General and Captain-General of the Islands of the Philippines from July 3, 1618 to July 1624.

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  • Cunha, Fernando de Castro Pereira Mouzinho de Albuquerque e (1906-1998), Instrumentário Genealógico - Linhagens Milenárias. MCMXCV, p. 319
  • Instituto de Salazar y Castro, Elenco de Grandezas y Titulos Nobiliarios Españoles". Various (periodic publication)
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