Enrique de Villena

Óscar Perea Rodríguez (University of California, Berkeley)

Ed. by Juan Pablo Rodriguez, Yale University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.6.2.01: Spanish Literature and Culture from the Beginning to the Golden Age.
Vol. editors: Andrew M. Beresford (University of Durham), Stuart Green (University of Leeds), Juan Pablo Rodriguez (Yale University), Duncan Wheeler (University of Leeds)

Dates

Born 1384
Died 1434

Places

Born in Castile-La Mancha
Active in Aragon

Activities

Primary

Humanist
Prose writer
Translator

Other

Astrologer

Resources

A troubled life

Born in 1384 in the small Cuenca village of Torralba, Villena was the grandson of the Marquis of Villena and Constable of Castile, Alfonso de Aragón y Foix (1332-1412). His grandfather’s friendship with the powerful Henry, Count of Trastámara, granted the arrival of this Aragonese house in the kingdom of Castile in the middle of the 14th c. After 1369, when the former Count became Henry II, King of Castile, he offered his comrade a family alliance with the marriage of his illegitimate daughter, Juana de Castilla to Pedro de Aragón, Alfonso’s legitimate son and heir, also known as Pedro de Villena. The marriage would have strengthened the position of this family i…

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Citation: Perea Rodríguez, Óscar. "Enrique de Villena". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 24 May 2017 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13642, accessed 19 April 2024.]

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