Rodrigo de Monroy y Almaraz, 5th Lord of Monroy

Rodrigo de Monroy y Almaraz, 5th Lord of Monroy, was a Spanish nobleman and Feudal Lord, son of Hernán de Monroy y Rodríguez de las Varillas, 4th Lord of Monroy, and wife Isabel de Almaraz, Lady of Almaraz.

He married Mencía de Orellana y Carvajal, daughter of Hernándo Alfonso de Orellana (a distant relative of Francisco de Orellana), and wife Juana González de Carvajal, and had at least:
* Hernán Rodríguez de Monroy y Orellana, el Bezudo, 6th Lord of Monroy, married and had issue
* Rodrigo (sometimes called Ruy) Fernández de Monroy y Orellana, married to María Cortés, daughter of Diego de la Cueva, "Alcalde" of Caltinovo (a relative of Beltrán de la Cueva) and wife María Cortés, and had:
** Martín Cortés de Monroy (b. 1449), an Infantry Captain of distinguished ancestry but slender means, married to Catalina Pizarro y Altamirano, daughter of Diego Altamirano and wife and cousin Leonor Sánchez Pizarro y Altamirano, [Paternal granddaughter of Juan Altamirano and wife María de Vivero, and maternal granddaughter of Martín Pizarro de Hinojosa (grand-uncle of Francisco Pizarro) and wife Isabel Rodríguez Altamirano, in turn daughter of Benito Hernández Altamirano and wife Isabel Rodríguez de Aguilar.] , and had:
*** Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro, 1st Marquess of the Valley of Oaxaca (1485-1547), the Conquistador of the Aztec Empire

Notes

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* Cunha, Fernando de Castro Pereira Mouzinho de Albuquerque e (1906-1998), "Instrumentário Genealógico - Linhagens Milenárias". MCMXCV, pp. 310-1
* Instituto de Salazar y Castro, "Elenco de Grandezas y Titulos Nobiliarios Españoles". Various (periodic publication)
* Machado, J. T. Montalvão, "Dos Pizarros de Espanha aos de Portugal e Brasil". Author's Edition, 1st Edition. Lisbon, 1970, pp. 20 and 47 - Arv. 1
* [http://members.tripod.com/~GaryFelix/index59.htm "Genealogy of Hernán Cortés"]
* [http://www.marfonline.com/cartucheria/milan2/Genealogia/ApellidoCortes.html "Origin of the Surname Cortés"]
* [http://www.elanillo.com/documentos/Monroy.pdf "Origin of the Surname Monroy"]
* [http://www.palimpalem.com/4/Demonroy/ "Monroyes en Extremadura - Historia de los Monroy"]
* [http://genforum.genealogy.com/coronado/messages/30.html "Origin of Vázquez de Coronado Family"]
* [http://www.geneall.net/H/per_page.php?id=218763 Genealogy]
* [http://extremadura.genealogica.net/linajes/pafg116.htm#2897 Genealogy]