page_title: Pedro Ruiz de Villegas II
section_title: Knight of the Band and Marriage
hierarchical_section_title: Pedro Ruiz de Villegas II / Life / Knight of the Band and Marriage
caption_attribution_description: Vectoriced from Image:COA Duchy of Franco (1975).svg English: Royal Bend of Castile Español: Banda Real de Castilla (Plantilla)
context_page_description: Pedro Ruiz de Villegas y Cevallos II was a Spanish noble baron in the service of the Kingdom of Castile and a member of the Order of Santiago. He was the head of the House of Villegas and a descendant of the houses of Cevallos and of Lucio. As the majorat of his own heraldic crest, he received titles over Villegas, Manquillos, Castillo Pedroso, Moñux, Pedrosa del Páramo, Manciles, Valdegómez and the palace of Sasamón. For his service in the First Castilian Civil War, and his role in the destruction of the Blanche of Bourbon league he received the castle of Caracena, and was named high adelantado of Castile in 1354. A year later, Peter of Castile would execute him in the village of Medina del Campo.
context_section_description: In 1332, the King Alfonso XI of Castile founded the Order of the Band with the intent of consolidating his power over the unruly nobility of Castile.  He ordered that certain nobles were to dress like him with white cloths and a crimson taffeta band that he had designed himself.  The members were made to follow a rigid etiquette behavior, to participate in jousts, to be very solitary and to remain, above all, loyal to the King.  It was thus that Pedro Ruiz de Villegas II was named a Knight of the Order of the Band along with his younger brother Lope Ruiz de Villegas.
  In 1348 he married Teresa González de la Vega (n. c. 1328), daughter of Garci Lasso de la Vega I who was a noble from Cantabria. On March 19, 1351, Pedro and Teresa sold most of their properties to their paternal uncle, Garci Lasso de la Vega II.
  In early 1350, Tello de Castilla, son of Alfonso XI and Leonor de Guzmán, inherited various properties from his father on his 13th birthday.  Tello appointed Villegas as the chief administrator of all his properties, a move that would cost Villegas dearly when some of these properties were lost in the subsequent Castilian Civil War.
caption: Rendition of the Knights of the Band Symbol.
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