page_title: Ruy López Dávalos
section_title: Sorting out Henry of Aragon by Álvaro de Luna
hierarchical_section_title: Ruy López Dávalos / Sorting out Henry of Aragon by Álvaro de Luna
caption_attribution_description: Español: Retrato de Álvaro de Luna († 1453), que fue maestre de la Orden de Santiago y condestable de Castilla, en el retablo de la capilla de Santiago de la catedral de Toledo, (España).
context_page_description: Ruy López Dávalos, Count of Ribadeo since it was sold by the first count, the Frenchman Pierre de Villaines, who received it from Henry II of Castile on 20 December 1369, Adelantado of Murcia, 1396, Constable of Castile, 1400–1423, during the reigns of kings Henry III of Castile and John II of Castile. He was very attached to king Henry III's uncle, Ferdinand of Antequera, afterwards elected king Ferdinand I of Aragon, king 1412-1416. He was attached then to one of Ferdinand's troublesome sons, Infante Henry of Aragon.
context_section_description: There was a loyal but ambitious, albeit modest Castilian  nobleman, a bastard from Aragonese nobility stock, known as Álvaro de Luna who helped king John II of Castile to fight hard and many times successfully against his scourging cousins, males and females, in 1423.
  They questioned however the nobility and the ancestry of faithful Álvaro, forgetting that the "Trastámara" royal families ruling in Castile and in Aragon then and there, and the questionable grips of feudal power of the now royal family, the Enriquez family, could trace their roots, less than 50 years earlier, 1369, in bastardy, violence and questionable powers, including the assassination of "legal" king Peter of Castile in Montiel, in March 1369. Not to mention their dangerous marriages involving closed endogamy relationships.
  To be brief, Alvaro let it be known López Dávalos negotiations with the Muslim subjects of the vassal Kingdom of Granada, quite near of the Murcia territories held by the Constable,  whether they were real or just a political concoctions, to become thus the undisputed  protector of the young king of Castile and getting rid of the close involvement of López Dávalos with the Aragonese cousins of the king. The trick worked and Rui López Dávalos had to go into the Kingdom of Aragon, dying with the weight of a discredited life between 1423 and 1428.
caption: Constable of Castile Álvaro de Luna, (circa 1388 - publicly executed, Valladolid, 3 July 1453). From a painting by Sancho de Zamora, circa 1430, at the Álvaro de Luna chapel in the Cathedral of Toledo. Idolized by king John II of Castile since he was around 15 and he was a bastard, aged 27, he was most ambitious for social recognition and status, chasing out Constable of Castile Ruy López Dávalos, (1357-1428) around 1423. He was a Master of the Military Order of Santiago too, a much treasured position by Infante Henry of Aragon, who had died of wounds in Calatayud as a consequence of the Battle of Olmedo on 19 May 1445, fought on behalf of his master the King. It is said, further, that on 19 February 1445, Queen Consort of Portugal, Leonor and her sister Maria, Queen Consort of Castile, seem to have died of the same symptoms, then diagnosed by some people as poisoning. The king of Castile, who married then young, capricious, disequilibrated, Isabella of Portugal, a noble family Portuguese lady in waiting only then, better known as the mother of famous and mighty  Queen Isabella I of Castile could not stand Alvaro arrogance and protective behavior towards her husband king John II of Castile. The killing of one of the Queen's secretaries, Perez del Vivero, attributed to Álvaro, meant his death sentence at Valladolid courts of law, 1453. King John II of Castile, is said to have died, brokenhearted by missing his devoted 64-year-old friend since he was 27, on 20 July 1454, aged only 49, nurtured by Álvaro since he was 15 and bullied for ever around by his hard royal Aragonese cousins. Queen Isabel I of Castile mother and one of the ruling Queen of Castile's daughters, Queen Joanna of Castile's son, king Charles I of Spain, a.k.a. Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, respectively, because of their severe inherited madness
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