I just need to get a few names and some suitable heraldry of Spanish knights who were active in the 1550's for a project. Need to name one at a joust and can't find anything!

Thanks

Griff

I am not sure where to find sources for 16th century Spanish knights. It's pretty tough, I guess.

Here is a short wikipedia article about a soldier who captured Francis I of France at Pavia and got the knighthood for that. Maybe you could use him?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_de_Urbieta

Hi! Why not someone that is maybe one of the greatest and best known Generals of the period?

Fernando Álvarez de Toledo y Pimentel, Grand Duke of Alba.
"Grande de España", Knight of the order of the golden fleece.

Lead the Spanish Empire to a decisive victory in the Battle of Mühlberg (1547) among others, although he was actually born in Lisboa (Modern day Portugal).


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Good luck with your project!

Thanks for these guys.

Sadly Juan died 4 or so years before i need him jousting at Hampton Court. I know the Spanish were probably the best jousters in Europe, but that's going some!

I have looked at Alba but he's just so massively well known and fabulously wealthy I cant' honestly portray him even on the relatively generous budget I have. I think he's already in the Low Countries by then so again, have to a be a long lance.

Have you considered looking up the rolls of participants of Lepanto or some other battle around that time to find participants of roughly the correct age for your needs?

I assume that you don't need this information anymore, but if someday you return to need it, in Biblioteca Digital Hispánica there are few manuscripts with spanish heraldric.

Blasón de armas o armería, en el qual se ponen las armas de muchos Reynos e imperios de cristianos e las armas de los claros varones destos Reynos de Castilla, from 1541
http://bdh.bne.es/bnesearch/detalle/bdh0000135707

Blasón de armas de todos los reyes, emperadores, caballeros e hidalgos de España, from XVIth century
http://bdh.bne.es/bnesearch/detalle/bdh0000118745

You can search terms like 'blasón', 'escudo de armas' or 'Heráldica España', but most are from XVIIth century.

El Becerro general: libro en que se relata el blasón de las armas que trahen muchos reynos y imperios, señoríos ... y de la genealogía de los lynages de España y de los escudos de armas que trahen
http://bdh.bne.es/bnesearch/detalle/bdh0000135656



In 1549 the prince Philip - and his father the emperor - assisted to a tournament in Binche [Belgium]. There were some spanish knights fighting, and there are at least three published accounts of it with the names of them. The most detailed is that from Calvete de Estrella.

Juan Cristóbal Calvete de Estrella, El felicíssimo viaje del muy alto y muy poderoso Príncipe don Phelippe,
https://bibliotecadigital.jcyl.es/es/consulta/registro.cmd?id=19028

Relación muy verdade- | ra de las grandes fiestas que la Serenissima | Reyna doña María ha hecho al Prin- 1
cipe nuestro seflor en Flandes en vn | lugar que se dize Uince, desde | xxij. de Agosto hasta el | postrero dia del
mes. I a Embiada por el señor don Hieronymo Gabanillas.
https://archive.org/stream/b24853148#page/56/mode/2up

Relaciion del camino y buen viaje que hizo el Princ. de España D. Phelipe ... 1548 Vicente Álvarez [1551]
https://books.google.es/books?id=LO87AAAAcAAJ

I'm sure that the book of the "Cofradía de Santiago de Burgos" has images of early XVIth century knights and heraldry, but I'm unsure of the date of the latests knights.

http://www.siloe.es/facsimiles/custodiados-en...-santiago/

I wil check if I have access to a copy, in that case I can send you images of it without problem ;)

Impressive.

And yet we have to heard that the Paso Honroso more than a century earlier was an "obsolete custom" and that Quixote's dreams (1505) were of a dead past, while such events were part still of the living memories...