Ferdinand de la Cerda, Lord of Lara
Fernando de la Cerda( 1275 – 1322) was the younger son of Ferdinand de la Cerda, Infante of Castile and his wife Blanche of France.
His elder brother was
Isabel de la Cerda
Isabel de la Cerda also known as" Isabel de la Cerda Pérez de Guzmán"( Seville c. 1329- after 1383) was the only surviving daughter of Luis de la Cerda and his first wife Leonor de Guzmán; she was Lady of Puerto de Santa María and titular Princess of Fortuna.
She was a member of the House de la Cerda.
Ferdinand de la Cerda
Ferdinand de la Cerda (23 October 1255 – 1275) was the heir apparent to the Crown of Castile as the eldest son of Alfonso X and Violant of Aragon.
His nickname, "de la Cerda", means "of the bristle" in Spanish, a reference to being born with a full head of hair.
In November 1268 he married Blanche, the daughter of King Louis IX of France.
They had two sons:
Ferdinand became regent of Castile in November 1274 when his father left for Germany.
In May 1275 the Marinids from Morocco landed in Spain upon call from Muhammad II of Granada and attacked Castile.
Ferdinand raised troops and moved south from Burgos to defend the kingdom but died unexpectedly in Villa Real in August 1275 leaving Castile open to invasion.
His sons did not inherit the throne of their grandfather, since their uncle Sancho, who had repulsed the Moorish invasion, usurped the throne.
Charles de La Cerda
Charles de La Cerda, commonly known as Charles of Spain( 1327 – 8 January 1354 in L'Aigle), was a Franco- Castilian nobleman and soldier, the son of Alfonso de la Cerda" of Spain"( died 1327) and Isabelle d' Antoing, and grandson of Alfonso de la Cerda" the disinherited"( 1270 – 1333).
He was a distant cousin of John II of France.
A boyhood companion and favorite of John while he was Duke of Normandy, Charles commanded the Castilian galleys at the Battle of L'Espagnols- sur- Mer, where he was defeated by Edward III of England after a long and desperate struggle.
Soon after John's accession to the throne, he was appointed Constable of France, filling the vacancy left by the execution of Raoul II, Count of Eu, and created Count of Angoulême.
Vacant since the death of Joan II of Navarre in 1349, the title to Angoulême was claimed by her son, Charles II, King of Navarre, who bitterly resented La Cerda's preferment.
In 1351, Charles de La Cerda married Marguerite, a daughter of Charles, Duke of Brittany.
In 1354, Charles of Navarre and several members of his household set upon and slew de la Cerda in an inn.
The repercussions of this murder led to a continuous state of instability within France that was only resolved upon the accession of Charles V in 1364.
Juan Núñez III de Lara
Juan III
Núñez de
Lara y de la Cerda( born Juan Fdez.
de la Cerda y Núñez de Lara:
1313- Burgos, 28 November 1350), Lord of Lara and Vizcaya, son of Ferdinand de la Cerda( 1275 – 1322) and Juana Núñez de Lara" the Little Dove".
Despite belonging to the House de la Cerda and aspiring to the Castilian- Leonese throne during the reigns of Sancho IV of Castile, Ferdinand IV of Castile and Alfonso XI of Castile, he carried the family name of his mother which corresponded to the name of his lordship.
He was Lord of Biscay by his marriage to Maria Diaz de Haro II, daughter of Don Juan de Haro" the Eye".
He was also Lord of Villafranca, Oropesa, Torrelobatón, Lerma, Paredes de Nava, Castroverde and Aguilar.
Ensign of the King and Lord Steward of Alfonso XI of Castile.
He was a great- grandson of Alfonso X the Wise, King of Castile and León, and Louis IX, King of France.
Nepomuceno de la Cerda
Nepomuceno de la Cerda( 1752–1826) was a Spanish soldier of note, after whom the town of La Cerda, Texas, was named.
Alfonso de la Cerda
Alfonso de la Cerda, (Valladolid 1270 - Ávila 1333), called the disinherited, was the elder son of Ferdinand de la Cerda and his wife Blanche of France, and was a grandson of Alfonso X of Castile.
Alfonso and his brother Fernando were candidates for the Castilian-Leonese crown during the reigns of Sancho IV of Castile, Ferdinand IV of Castile and Alfonso XI of Castile.
In 1331, Alfonso renounced his rights and swore allegiance to Alfonso XI of Castile.
Gastón de la Cerda, 3rd Duke of Medinaceli
Gastón de la Cerda, 3rd Duke of Medinaceli, Grandee of Spain,( in full),( c. 1507 – 1552) was a Spanish nobleman.
He was the second son of Don Juan de la Cerda, 2nd Duke of Medinaceli, by first wife Mencía Manuel de Portugal.
As a young man he became a monk in the Order of St. Jerome.
In 1536 after the death of his elder brother Luis without issue he became the heir to the family titles, so he sought a Papal dispensation in order to marry and fulfill his family obligations.
On 4 March 1540 he married María Sarmiento de la Cerda, a marriage that was eventually nulled on 30 August 1544, without issue.
Alfonso X of Castile
Alfonso X of Castile (also occasionally known as Alfonso X, Alphonso, Alphonse, or Alfons, The Wise ; 23 November 1221 in Toledo4 April 1284 in Seville) was a Spaniard, who was the King of Castile, León and Galicia from 30 May 1252 until his death in 1284.
During the election of 1257, a dissident faction chose him to be Roman-German king on 1 April.
He renounced his claim to Germany in 1275, and in creating an alliance with England in 1254, his claim on Gascony as well.
Alfonso X fostered the development of a cosmopolitan court that encouraged learning.
Jews, Muslims, and Christians had prominent roles in his court.
As a result of his encouraging the translation of works from Arabic and Latin into the vernacular of Castile, many intellectual changes took place, perhaps the most notable being encouragement of the use of Castilian as a primary language of higher learning, science, and law.
Alfonso was a prolific author of Galician poetry, such as the "Cantigas de Santa Maria", which are equally notable for their musical notation as for their literary merit.
Alfonso's scientific interests—he is sometimes nicknamed the Astrologer ("el Astrólogo")—led him to sponsor the creation of the Alfonsine tables, and the Alphonsus crater on the moon is named after him.
As a legislator he introduced the first vernacular law code in Spain, the "Siete Partidas".
He created the Mesta, an association of sheep farmers in the central plain, but debased the coinage to finance his claim to the German crown.
He fought a successful war with Portugal, but a less successful one with Granada.
The end of his reign was marred by a civil war with his eldest surviving son, the future Sancho IV, which continued after his death.
Juan Alfonso de la Cerda
Juan Alfonso de la Cerda
( France, 1295- August 7, 1347) was Lord of Gibraleón, Huelva, Real de Manzanares and Deza.
He was the son of Alfonso de la Cerda, grandson of Ferdinand de la Cerda.
His mother was Matile of Brienne, daughter of John I of Brienne, Count of Eu. He married Maria Alfonso de Portugal( illegitimate daughter of King Denis of Portugal).
He served under Alfonso XI of Castile in the Siege of Algeciras( 1342- 1344), which culminated in the city's surrender in 1344.

Question: Where was the place of death of Ferdinand De La Cerda's father?
Answer: Seville