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Don Beltrán de la Cueva y Alfonso de Mercado, 1st Duke of Alburquerque (
Úbeda,
1443 -
November 1,
1492), was a
Spanish nobleman and presumed
lover of Queen
Joan of Portugal.
King
Enrique IV, in his second year as King, travelled to
Úbeda and stayed with Beltrán's father,
Diego Fernández de la Cueva, 1st Viscount of Huelma. When he left this house, he took Diego's second oldest son, Beltrán, with him to stay at Court to show his gratitude to Diego. (Diego offered Beltrán after Enrique asked for Diego's oldest son, whom Diego wanted to keep close by).
He married as his first wife Teresa de Molina de Quesada, of
Úbeda, daughter of Francisco Cazorla de Quesada and wife Guiomar Mayor de Molina y Vera, without issue.
Beltrán soon becomes the King's
favourite and marries Cardinal Mendoza's niece, Doña Mencía Hurtado de Mendoza y Luna, daughter of the 1st Dukes del Infantado, by whom he'd a son
Francisco Fernández de la Cueva. He is, however, best known for having an affair with Enrique's second wife,
Joan of Portugal. It was rumoured that her only daughter,
Juana, princess of Castile was fathered by Beltrán and not by the King himself, who was considered impotent. This made Juana illegitimate in the eyes of some, which led to a four-year
War of the Castilian Succession, which was won by
Isabella I of Castile, Enrique's half-sister.
He was a Great-
Master of the
Order of Santiago and
Chamberlain-Major. In
1462 the King granted him the title of 1st Count of
Ledesma.
In
1463 Beltrán is removed from Court and receives as compensation the title of 1st
Duke of Alburquerque Grandee of Spain by mercy of King Henry IV at
Segovia, Letter of
November 16 or
November 26,
1464. He was also created in
1464 1st Lord of
Cuéllar,
Roa,
Atienza,
Torregalindo,
Codecera, etc.
In
1467 he fights in the
Battle of Olmedo against the rebels supporting
Alfonso of Castile, Prince of Asturias.
In the War of the Castilian Succession, he supports the Catholic Kings against his presumed daughter Juana. As a reward he was also created 1st Count of
Huelma by Decree of the same King on
August 20,
1474, later confirmed by Queen
Isabella I of Castile and King
Ferdinand V of Castile on
April 20,
1475.
He also distinguished himself in the conquest of
Granada along with his son Don Francisco.
A widower in
1474 he married in
1479 as her second husband Dona María Fernández de Velasco y Mendoza, duaghter of the
Constable of Castile, Don
Pedro Fernández de Velasco, and had two sons, Don Cristóbal de la Cueva y Velasco, born in Cuéllar and married to Leonor de Velasco y Carrillo de Córdoba, 3rd Countess of
Siruela, who died in
1529, and had issue, and Don Antonio de la Cueva y Velasco, 1st Lord of
La Adrada, married to Elvira de Ayala, and had issue.
He had a bastard son named Manuel Beltrão, who went to Portugal and there he married Francisca da Mota, ancestors of the Beltrão family.
Beltrán de la Cueva died in 1492 and was buried at the
Convent of San Francisco de
Cuéllar.
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