Enrique Enríquez the Elder

Enrique Enríquez was the natural son of the Infante Henry of Castile and Lady Mayor Rodriguez Pecha.

[1] On 27 July 1253 his uncle, Alfonso X of Castile the Wise, gave Enrique Enríquez the lordship of La Puebla de los Infantes, in the present province of Seville.

[6] The grant was confirmed by a document issued in the city of Valladolid on 12 April 1320 by King Alfonso XI of Castile.

[5] Several descendants of Enrique Enríquez, including his son, were buried in the monastery of San Francisco in Seville.

[9] The monastery was looted, desecrated and burned by French troops during the Spanish War of Independence and later demolished in the year 1841.