The Spanish general Gonzalo de Córdoba employed him and trusted him: and he took part in the wars of Italy, on the frontier of Navarre, and once against the Turks on the Danube, till 1530. He died in Bologna in 1534 by a fall while engaged in a jumping-match with some of the younger officers of the army. His body was carried to his native town Trujillo, and buried in the church of Santa María la Mayor in 1545.