Don Juan of Persia

Oruj bey Bayat (Persian: اروج بیگ بیات, romanized: Orūj beg Bayāt; also spelled Uruch or Oruch in English), later known by his baptized name of Don Juan de Persia (c. 1560/1567–c.

His father and uncle Hossein Ali Bey Bayat were personal attendants of Mohammad Khodabanda, and his son Hamza Mirza.

[4] He later joined his cousin Ali Quli bey in a fight against Uzbeks 7 years later in Battle of Herat, where Din Muhammad Khan was killed.

In 1599 Shah Abbas I sent an embassy to Europe headed by the English traveler Anthony Shirley and Oruj's uncle Hossein Ali Bey Bayat.

The envoy was equipped with letters to rulers of the Kingdoms of Spain, England, Scotland, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Tsardom of Muscovy and the Republic of Venice.

Soon they reached Astrakhan, where the embassy met the Shah's previously sent delegation to Tsar Boris Godunov, led by Pir Quli bey.

[4] However, he was probably influenced by a Venetian named Nicolas Crivelli who was speaking Turkish and Francisco de San Juan, an Ottoman convert to Christianity and translator of Philip III.

In March 1611, Don Juan was offered the opportunity to participate in a Safavid embassy mission to Rome as a translator for Dengiz Bey Rumlu.

[11]In 1615, Don Juan encountered another setback when Cristobal Hernandez, acting with power of attorney, took a loan in his name, using the royal pension for January and February 1616 as collateral.

Already in debt for 1,500 reals, Don Juan sought legal action, testifying before a notary with the support of his former servant, Alonso Seoane, and other Spaniards, to deny having authorized the loan.

In his appeal, Don Juan argued that after having lived in Spain for a long time, marrying a local woman, raising an 8-year-old child, and being burdened with debt, there was no longer a need to fund the priest's oversight.

By 12 June 1621, a petition written by Juana Bernarda, revealed that she had become an orphan and was now a nun at Convent of Our Lady of the Assumption of Pinto in Madrid.