Alfonso Carrillo de Acuña

On Albornoz's fall from power, in 1434, Carrillo was made protonotary apostolic by Pope Eugene IV, entering the royal court of John II of Castile.

His greed and ambition led him to oppose the king when Henry IV promoted Beltrán de la Cueva and his Mendoza allies, sworn enemies of Carrillo, as advisors to the throne instead of his nephew, Juan Pacheco.

He was made a pseudocardinal deacon of Sant'Eustachio in the consistory of 12 April 1440, but declined the promotion[1] From 1462 Carrillo was the main instigator of the noble Castilian faction which wanted to depose the king and replace him with his half-brother, the infante Alfonso, and he was a highly active participant in the Farce of Ávila.

The war was long and cruel, but at the start of 1479 an offensive by the Catholic Monarchs definitively defeated the Portuguese and forced Carrillo to submit and accept the imposition of royal garrisons in all the fortresses he controlled, though he did hold onto his post as archbishop of Toledo.

On 12 May 1481 he condemned the existence of radical guilds and associations in Toledo that organized along racial lines and excluded Jewish converts to the Catholic faith.