Diego Fernández de Córdoba y Arellano, marqués de Comares

Who was Diego Fernández de Córdoba y Arellano, marqués de Comares?

Diego Fernández de Córdoba y Arellano, I marqués de Comares, invested 1st marquis of Comares in 1512, was Governor of Oran and Mazalquivir, 1509–1512 and 1516–1518, and first Viceroy of Navarre, 1512-1515.

He was the son of Martín Fernández de Córdoba y de Sotomayor, born circa 1420, 4th Sieur of Chillon, province of Ciudad Real, 10th Sieur of Espejo, 5th Sieur of Lucena and Leonor de Arellano y Fernandez de Cordoba,. His maternal uncle was the famous army commander Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba,.

He married, circa 1480, Juana Pacheco y Portocarrero, a daughter of Juan Pacheco 1st duke of Escalona, a notorious political troublemaker and his first wife, Lady Maria Portocarrero y Enriquez - Mendoza, 6th Lady of Moguer from a powerful shipowners family.

In 1482 he played an important role in the conquest of the fortress of Alhama de Granada, belonging to the Moorish Kingdom of Granada, and in 1483 in repelling the attacks of king Boabdil on Lucena, a town in the province of Cordoba, held by the Kingdom of Castile.

After the conquest of the Kingdom of Granada in 1492, he took part in 1501 in crushing the moriscos revolt in the Sierra de los Filabres, province of Almeria conquering the village of Velefique. In 1505, he conquered Mazalquivir and took part in the Spanish conquest of Oran, now in Algeria.