One of the first professors of the University of Mexico, born at Toledo, Spain, probably in 1513 or 1514; went to Mexico in 1550; died there in 1575.
Born at Ghent, 1500; died at Yuste, in Spain, 1558; was a descendant of the house of Hapsburg, and to this descent owed his sovereignty over so many lands that it was said of him that the sun never set on his dominions.…
Popular hero of the chivalrous age of Spain, born at Burgos c. 1040; died at Valencia, 1099. He was given the title of seid or cid (lord, chief) by the Moors and that of campeador (champion) by his admiring countrymen.…
Bishopric-Priorate of the Military Orders of Spain, directly subject to the Holy See.
Poet, b. at Madrid, Spain, 28 March, 1731; d. in the same city, 4 November, 1795.
…0 at Sta. Maria del Puerto (Santona), on the Bay of Biscay, Spain, d. on the coast of the Gulf of Uraba, 28 February, 1510.…
A famous city of Spain, situated on an eminence between the Sar (the Sars of Pomponius Mela) and Sarela.
Conqueror of Mexico, born at Medellin in Spain c. 1485; died at Castilleja de la Cuesta near Seville, 2 December, 1547.
Born in Toledo, Spain, 25 July, 1512; died in Madrid, 27 Sept., 1577.
Diocese in Spain, suffragan of Toledo; it includes nearly the entire province of Céceres, with the exception of a few parishes that belong to the Diocese of Salamanca.
Explorer, b. at Salamanca, Spain, 1500; d. in Mexico, 1553.
Archbishop of Toledo; b. at Miranda de Arga, Spain, 1503; d. at Rome, 2 May, 1576.
Suffragan of Granada in Spain since the concordat of 1851, previously of Toledo.
Cardinal, b. 1455, at Plasencia in Estremadura, Spain; d. at Rome 16 Dec., 1523.
Dominican missionary, b. in Estremadura, Spain, c. 1500; d. at Lima, Peru, 1584.
Cardinal; b. about 1400 at Truxillo in Estremadura, Spain; d. at Rome, 6 December, 1469.
Born 2 Jan., 1568, at Jaraizejo, Spain; died 2 Jan., 1614, at London, a lady of high birth, who received from God what appears to have been a special vocation to go to England and minister to those who were suffering for the Faith.…
Soldier, priest, and epic poet, born in Spain in the first half of the sixteenth century; date of death unknown.
Italian prose-writer, b. at Casatico, near Mantua, 6 December, 1478; died at Toledo, Spain, 7 February, 1529.
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