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Cardinal Diego de Espinosa

Martín Muñoz de las Posadas, Comunidad de Ciudad y Tierra de Segovia, Segovia

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Cardinal Diego de Espinosa

Historical milestone · Martín Muñoz de las Posadas, Comunidad de Ciudad y Tierra de Segovia, Segovia

Diego de Espinosa Arévalo was born in Martín Muñoz de las Posadas in 1513, into a noble and well-off family, and studied Law in Salamanca. After holding numerous posts in the royal administration, he became president of the Consejo de Castilla in 1565 and Inquisitor General in 1566, and the following year, with Philip II absent to attend to Flanders, he remained as regent and the king secured him the cardinal's hat, granted by Pope Pius V in 1568. Philip II wanted to buy him a lordship along with the title of marquis, but he refused it; he asked instead for his town a weekly free trade fair and another annual one in September. He also refused to let the king build him a palace, feeling it unbecoming of an exemplary minister, and accepted only a modest one with the royal coat of arms on the façade, completed in 1572, the year of his death.

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