Mendoza
Cold mountain, and one of Castile's great houses.
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- Spanish
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The seat of Mendoza
Seat vacantChief
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Current mission
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Help rebuild the Mendoza clan →What does the Mendoza name mean?
Toponymic and Basque, from a place in Álava, mendi otz(a), 'cold mountain'. The name of one of the greatest noble houses of Castile.
The history of Mendoza
Mendoza is Basque to its bones, mendi otza, the cold mountain in Álava, but it became one of the supreme noble names of Castile: the House of Mendoza gave Spain cardinals, viceroys, the Renaissance poet the Marqués de Santillana, and Antonio de Mendoza, first viceroy of New Spain. That prestige and the conquest together planted it across the Americas, where a city in Argentina bears the name. A cold Basque mountain became a name that ruled half a hemisphere.
Castles the Mendoza held
Strongholds this name held for a decade or more, look one up, or rebuild it to explore.
- New Castle of Manzanares el Real
Palace of the House of Mendoza, Dukes of the Infantado, from 1475; the Duchy of the Infantado owns it still.
Landmarks the Mendoza held
Palaces, houses and great buildings tied to this name, look one up, or rebuild it to explore.
- Alhambra
Hereditary governors of the Alhambra as Counts of Tendilla and Marquises of Mondejar from 1492, holding a Nasrid palace as family residence until Philip V confiscated their properties in 1717-18.
The castles of the homeland
The great strongholds of the homeland, look one up, see what it looked like in its prime, and recreate it to explore.
Reales AlcázaresRestored · prime 1366
Alcazaba of MálagaRestored · prime 1350
Montjuïc CastleRestored · prime 1799All castles in Spain → · Strongest castles in Spain → · Castles of Europe
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