Alonso Manrique de Lara


Alfonso or Alonso Manrique de Lara y Solís was a Spanish churchman.

Biography

Manrique was born in Segura de León in Badajoz, apparently a son from the third marriage of the famous Rodrigo Manrique de Lara with a Solís-Castañeda woman, being therefore a very young stepbrother of the poet Jorge Manrique de Lara. Jerónimo Manrique de Lara was his son.
He was Bishop of Badajoz, Bishop of Córdoba and Archbishop of Seville. He was Inquisitor General as a successor of Adrian of Utrecht, and appointed around February – April 1531 as cardinal-priest of the Santi Apostoli, Rome. After he was given the title of cardinal-priest of San Callisto, from 17 April 1531 till 12 July 1532.
He died on 28 September 1538 in Seville after falling from a horse.