In 1507, she also held the position of Ambassador for the Spanish Court in England when her father found himself without one, becoming the first female ambassador in European history.

In 1507 she served as the Spanish Ambassador for England, thus becoming the first female ambassador in European history.

However, in January 2011, the Spanish government denied a request by the U. S. ambassador to return the painting to the Cassirer family in California, which claims with proof that it was among those illegally taken by Nazis in Germany.

In April the Spanish ambassador, Bernardino de Mendoza, wrote to King Philip of Spain that it had been proposed that if Anjou were to travel to England to negotiate his marriage to the Queen, Oxford, Surrey and Windsor should be hostages for his safe return.

After the death of Pope Urban VII on 27 September 1590, the Spanish ambassador Olivares presented the conclave a list of the seven cardinals who would be acceptable to his master Philip II of Spain.

When Elizabeth came to the throne, there was much apprehension among members of the council appointed by Mary, due to the fact that many of them ( as noted by the Spanish ambassador ) had participated in several plots against Elizabeth, such as her imprisonment in the Tower, trying to force her to marry a foreign prince and thereby sending her out of the realm, and even pushing for her death.

* Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, conde de Gondomar of Spain ( 1567 – 1626 ), Spanish ambassador to England-Wales

In due course, Spanish and other European sailors adopted the hobby of smoking rolls of leaves, as did the Conquistadors, and smoking primitive cigars spread to Spain and Portugal and eventually France, most probably through Jean Nicot, the French ambassador to Portugal, who gave his name to nicotine.

Spanish ambassadors arrived in Edinburgh, and later Pedro de Ayala was established as a resident ambassador during the crisis.

When news of this invasion reached Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, on 21 October 1496, he wrote to his ambassador in Spain, to request the Spanish monarchs make peace between England and Scotland.

Within a month the Spanish ambassador, Count de Feria, counted Robert Dudley among those three persons who " rule everything ".

" " Lord Robert ", the new Spanish ambassador de Quadra was convinced, was the man " in whom it is easy to recognise the king that is to be ... she will marry none but the favoured Robert.

Still, she finally told the Spanish ambassador that the proposal fell through because the Earl of Leicester refused to cooperate.

Under the direction of Pope Leo X, he was ambassador to England and then papal nuncio in Spain, where he conceived a violent detestation of Spanish rule that affected the policies of his later papacy.

* Enrique Dupuy de Lôme, a Spanish ambassador to the United States

" Letter writer Dudley Carleton reported that when the Queen afterwards danced with the Spanish ambassador, he kissed her hand " though there was danger it would have left a mark upon his lips ".

Though Middleton's approach was strongly patriotic, the Privy Council shut down the play after nine performances on the complaint of the Spanish ambassador.

After the Royal Council decided to accept the provisions of the will of Charles II that named Philip king of Spain, the Spanish ambassador was called in and introduced to his new king.

The ambassador, along with his son, knelt before Philip and made a long speech in Spanish which Philip did not understand, although Louis XIV ( the son and husband of Spanish princesses ) did.

Yaxley had been employed by Margaret Douglas ; his interrogation at the Tower of London in February 1562 revealed that he had obtained intelligence about the English Court from the Spanish ambassador, and the ambassador had entrusted him and Hugh Allen with messages and tokens for the Lennoxes and Darnley.

Secondly, favouring the Lennoxes could serve as some kind of appeasement of the English Roman Catholics, who, like the Spanish ambassador, might foresee Elizabeth naming Darnley as her successor

The so-called " Zuniga Map " ( named for Pedro de Zúñiga, the Spanish ambassador to England, who had secured a copy and passed it on to Philip III of Spain ), drawn circa 1607 by the Jamestown settler Francis Nelson, also gives credence to this claim.

* 1604 – Bernardino de Mendoza, Spanish diplomat

* 1398 – Íñigo López de Mendoza, 1st Marquis of Santillana, Spanish politician and poet ( d. 1458 )

He set sail on May 9, 1540, with orders from the Spanish Viceroy Antonio de Mendoza to await at a certain point on the coast the arrival of an expedition by land under the command of Coronado.

* 1428 – Pedro González de Mendoza, Spanish cardinal and statesman ( d. 1495 )

Choosing what was possibly the continent's worst site for the first Spanish settlement in South America, in February 1536 Mendoza built a fort at a poor anchorage on the southern side of the Plata estuary on an inhospitable, windswept, dead-level plain where not a tree or shrub grew.

The first anthology of Spanish proverbs, Proverbios que dicen las viejas tras el fuego, was written by Íñigo López de Mendoza, Marques of Santillana ( 15th century ).

* August 3 – Bernardino de Mendoza, Spanish military commander

** Bernardino de Mendoza, Spanish military commander ( d. 1604 )

* June 23 – Pedro de Mendoza, Spanish conquistador ( b. 1487 )

* March 25 – Íñigo López de Mendoza, marqués de Santillana, Spanish poet ( b. 1398 )

** Pedro de Mendoza, Spanish conquistador ( d. 1537 )

* January 11 – Pedro González de Mendoza, Spanish cardinal and statesman ( b. 1428 )

* May 3 – Pedro González de Mendoza, Spanish cardinal and statesman ( d. 1495 )

Control over the former Inca lands had been entrusted to Pedro de la Gasca by the Spanish king ( and Holy Roman Emperor ) Emperor Charles V. Gasca commanded Alonso de Mendoza to found a new city commemorating the end of the civil wars in Peru ; the city of La Paz was founded on October 20, 1548.

The practice is said to have begun in the late 16th century, when Queen Elizabeth I's representative Francis Throckmorton presented the Spanish Ambassador, Bernardino de Mendoza, with a specially constructed red briefcase filled with black puddings.

Juan Vásquez held various positions in the administration of the recently captured Emirate of Granada under Iñigo López de Mendoza, its first Spanish governor.

Juan González de Mendoza in his History of the great and mighty kingdom of China ( 1585 ; English translation 1588 ), based on the reports of Spanish friars who had visited China in the 1570s, highly praises the fruit:

Meanwhile, the Dutch also lost formerly occupied Baia de Todos os Santos, Salvador de Bahia, 12 ° 48 ′ S 38 ° 38 ′ W in Brazil, 1 May 1625, under the heavy attacks of the Spanish – Portuguese Fleet, commanded by the Captain General of the Spanish Navy, since 1617, Admiral Fadrique II de Toledo Osorio y Mendoza ( Naples, Italy, May 1580 – 11 December 1634 ), 1st Marquis of Villanueva de Valdueza, and, since 17 January 1624, Knight of the Order of Santiago.

The town's name comes from Cape Mendocino, named by early Spanish navigators in honor of Antonio de Mendoza, Viceroy of New Spain.

* Ana de Mendoza, Princess of Eboli, Spanish aristocrat

Tomé was originally founded by and name for Tomé ( or Thomé ) Dominguez de Mendoza in the seventeenth century ; after the 1680 Pueblo Rebellion and the Reconquest a dozen years later, none of the Dominguez family ( all of whom survived ) seem to have chosen to return, so just before the middle of the next century the land was granted to other persons, largely genizaros ( Indians converted to Christianity and living a Spanish lifestyle ).

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