page_title: Íñigo de Alfaro
section_title: Trial of the castellan of Amposta
hierarchical_section_title: Íñigo de Alfaro / Aragon / Trial of the castellan of Amposta
caption_attribution_description: Español: Iglesia de San Miguel, Cantavieja. Sepulcro de alabastro, taller de Pere Moragues, del Castellán de Amposta (1417-1420), Gonzalo de Funes (†1420), Comendador de Cantavieja, de la Orden Hospitalaria de San Juan de Jerusalén y patrono de la Iglesia de San Miguel de Cantavieja. El interesante sepulcro (ca. 1415) sufrió pérdidas y deterioro, principalmente durante la Guerra Civil española.
context_page_description: Fray Íñigo de Alfaro was an Aragonese nobleman and Knight Hospitaller. He was the defending commander at the Siege of Smyrna in 1402 against the Turco-Mongol conqueror Timur. He later played a key role in the Compromise of Caspe that settled the Aragonese interregnum in 1412.
context_section_description: The castellan of Amposta refused to recognise the new king. Ferdinand thus suspended him from the castellany in 1413, and placed it under the regency of Íñigo. The Catalan corts that met in Tortosa in 1413 summoned Íñigo as "the regent of the Castellany of Amposta" (regenti Castellaniam Emposte). He was still regent in Amposta as of 11 January 1416, but shortly thereafter Pedro Ruiz was deposed and Gonzalo de Funes appointed in his place.
  In 1414, a tribunal was convoked by Benedict XIII to try Pedro Ruiz. The tribunal was not limited to his refusal to obey Ferdinand and accept the compromise of Caspe. Íñigo and another Hospitaller, Pascasi de Morralla, prior of Monzón, were charged by the tribunal with conducting an inquiry "into the said lord Fray Pedro, castellan, and his houses and rooms in various places in the said castellany" (in dicto domino fratre Petro, castellano, et suis castris seu cameris ac locis dicte Castellanie). In the process of this inquiry into his lifestyle and business dealings, the Hospitallers took down the testimony of 67 witnesses. In the end, Pedro Ruiz was convicted of everything from concubinage to robbery.
  Following the removal of Pedro Ruiz and the promotion of Gonzalo de Funes, Íñigo replaced Gonzalo as commander of the castle at Aliaga. He was seriously ill when, on 3 April 1427, an administrator was appointed for him. He was still ill seven years later on 16 August 1434, when the grand master, a Catalan, Antoni de Fluvià, expressed concern. He is last mentioned on 28 March 1435.
caption: Tomb of Gonzalo de Funes, died in 1420 and succeeded by Íñigo
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