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Pedro González de Mendoza

1428 - 1495

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Pedro González de Mendoza (3 May 1428 – 11 January 1495) was a Spanish cardinal, statesman and lawyer. He served on the council of King Henry IV of Castile and in 1467 fought for him at the Second Battle of Olmedo. In 1468 he was named bishop of Sigüenza and in 1473 he became cardinal and archbishop of Seville and appointed chancellor of Castile. In the subsequent succession dispute, Mendoza supported Isabel's right to succeed her brother, Enrique IV, and participated in the battle of Toro, where the forces of Ferdinand and Isabella defeated the supporters of Juana la Beltraneja. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pedro González de Mendoza is the 10,744th most popular politician (down from 10,040th in 2019), the 975th most popular biography from Spain (down from 928th in 2019) and the 308th most popular Spanish Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Pedro González de Mendoza ranks 10,744 out of 19,576. Before him are Publius Decius Mus, Yahya ibn Ali ibn Hammud al-Mu'tali, Ingvar of Kiev, Cleomenes of Naucratis, Li Yuanchao, and Ali Nasir Muhammad. After him are Catherine of Mecklenburg, Vasiliy Ulrikh, Maryam Rajavi, Bisinus, Mwambutsa IV of Burundi, and Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1428, Pedro González de Mendoza ranks 9. Before him are Catherine of France, Countess of Charolais, John VIII, Count of Vendôme, Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, Yolande, Duchess of Lorraine, Janibek Khan, and Julius Pomponius Laetus. After him is Bernhard II, Margrave of Baden-Baden. Among people deceased in 1495, Pedro González de Mendoza ranks 15. Before him are Dorothea of Brandenburg, Elizabeth Tudor, Cosimo Tura, Vlad Călugărul, Jacob Sprenger, and Frederick III, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg. After him is Gabriel Biel.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Pedro González de Mendoza ranks 975 out of 3,355. Before him are Francisco Bayeu y Subías (1734), Juan Bautista de Toledo (1515), Juan Yagüe (1891), Joan Alcover (1854), Francisco López de Gómara (1511), and Ramón Serrano Suñer (1901). After him are Juan Bautista Aznar-Cabañas (1860), Ibn Hayyan (987), José Martínez Ruiz (1873), Gómez Pereira (1500), Ricardo María Carles Gordó (1926), and Juan Fernández (1536).

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Among POLITICIANS In Spain

Among politicians born in Spain, Pedro González de Mendoza ranks 308. Before him are Galindo Aznárez I (825), Tiberius Sempronius Longus (-250), Juan Belmonte (1892), Baldomero Espartero (1793), Manuel Fraga (1922), and Ramón Serrano Suñer (1901). After him are Juan Bautista Aznar-Cabañas (1860), Abbad II al-Mu'tadid (1012), Santiago Casares Quiroga (1884), Infanta Isabel Fernanda of Spain (1821), Ismail II of Granada (1338), and José María Gil-Robles y Quiñones (1898).

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