Rodrigo de Monroy y Almaraz, 5th Lord of Monroy

Rodrigo de Monroy y Almaraz, 5th Lord of Monroy, was a Spanish nobleman and Feudal Lord, son of Hernán de Monroy y Rodríguez de las Varillas, 4th Lord of Monroy, and wife Isabel de Almaraz, Lady of Almaraz.

He married Mencía de Orellana y Carvajal, daughter of Hernándo Alfonso de Orellana (a distant relative of Francisco de Orellana), and wife Juana González de Carvajal, and had at least:

• Hernán Rodríguez de Monroy y Orellana, el Bezudo, 6th Lord of Monroy, married and had issue
• Rodrigo (sometimes called Ruy) Fernández de Monroy y Orellana, married to María Cortés, daughter of Diego de la Cueva, Alcalde of Caltinovo (a relative of Beltrán de la Cueva) and wife María Cortés, and had:
  • Martín Cortés de Monroy (b. 1449), an Infantry Captain of distinguished ancestry but slender means, married to Catalina Pizarro y Altamirano, daughter of Diego Altamirano and wife and cousin Leonor Sánchez Pizarro y Altamirano,^[1] and had:
    • Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro, 1st Marquess of the Valley of Oaxaca (1485–1547), the Conquistador of the Aztec Empire

Notes

1. Paternal granddaughter of Juan Altamirano and wife María de Vivero, and maternal granddaughter of Martín Pizarro de Hinojosa (grand-uncle of Francisco Pizarro) and wife Isabel Rodríguez Altamirano, in turn daughter of Benito Hernández Altamirano and wife Isabel Rodríguez de Aguilar.

Sources

• Cunha, Fernando de Castro Pereira Mouzinho de Albuquerque e (1906–1998), Instrumentário Genealógico – Linhagens Milenárias. MCMXCV, pp. 310–1
• Instituto de Salazar y Castro, Elenco de Grandezas y Titulos Nobiliarios Españoles. Various (periodic publication)
• Machado, J. T. Montalvão, Dos Pizarros de Espanha aos de Portugal e Brasil. Author's Edition, 1st Edition. Lisbon, 1970, pp. 20 and 47 – Arv. 1
• Genealogy of Hernán Cortés
• Origin of the Surname Cortés
• Origin of the Surname Monroy
• Monroyes en Extremadura – Historia de los Monroy
• Origin of Vázquez de Coronado Family
• Genealogy
• Genealogy