Background
Alvaro de Luna was born in Cañete, Cuenca, Spain in 1390.
(Excerpt from Cronica de D. Alvaro de Luna, Condestable de...)
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Alvaro de Luna was born in Cañete, Cuenca, Spain in 1390.
Alvaro was a skilled politician, a farsighted legislator, a competent soldier, and a minor poet and wit. His weakness was that, born without inherited wealth, he used his position to accumulate estates and money. Luna secured the favour of John II at a very early age, but his period of real power began when he rescued the king from the tutelage of rebel nobles (1420) and was appointed constable (1423).
For many years his main efforts were concerned with saving the crown from armed factions of dissident magnates who sought to control it. These twice succeeded in ousting Luna (1427 and 1438), but they proved incapable of governing effectively, and Luna was summoned back to power. The chief rebel leaders were the sons of Ferdinand I of Aragon, who were Castilian magnates in their own right. When they were routed at Olmedo (1445), where Luna as constable led the loyalist vanguard, the rebellions were at last at an end.
Despite the fact that the power of don Álvaro base was located in the same ideological reasons as the rest of the nobility, indeed is currently considered to be one of the most faithful representatives of the ideal medieval monarchical. To its strengthening, he devoted his whole life, even though in the end it proved debugging the authoritarian power of the monarchy in their own flesh. All his political work was magnamente culminated with the monarchical union carried out by the Catholic monarchs, which even helped some of his former supporters as the Chacón or the Cardenas.
(Excerpt from Cronica de D. Alvaro de Luna, Condestable de...)
By his marriage with Juana Pimentel, Álvaro de Luna had two children.
