Pedro de Ayala
Pedro de Ayala (* 1475 in Toledo, † January 31, 1513 ibid ) was from 1497 to 1500 and from 1501 to 1502 Ambassador of the Catholic Monarchs with Henry VII of England
Life
His parents were María de Zúñiga y Cárdenas Figueroa and Pedro López de Ayala y Cárdenas, 6th Conde de Fuensalida, also ambassador in London. His sister was Jerónima de Ayala y Zúñiga. He was a member of the Order of Santiago commander Comendador de Mora He married Inés de Ayala. Their children were Juan de Ayala, Comendador de Isabel de Ayala and Mortalla.
He was ambassador to the Netherlands and the German empire.
In January 1496 induced voltages with Charles VIII of France, the Catholic King and Queen, to intensify the negotiations on a treaty with England in her yard in Tortosa. The treaty included a defensive alliance with England, which has been extended to Portugal before concluding a marriage contract for the then eleven -year-old Catherine of Aragon and the new edition of the free trade treaty Treaty of Okyng of 1490th order to enter into negotiations was the dowry increases. The aim of the Holy League was the expansion of the sphere of influence of Charles VIII of France to stop on Italy.
On the night of 21 to August 22, 1496 to Ayala his trip to Scotland went accompanied by the Consul of Glasgow from Laredo.
On the afternoon of August 22 1996, the Catholic King and Queen received the news from Rome that was published there, that England had joined the Holy League. Ayala persuaded James IV of Scotland, to join a military alliance with England and Spain and adjust the enmity with the neighboring kingdoms.
Ambassador in London
Ayala was a canon, had married into the house Álvarez de Toledo and showed his belief in his superiority over Rodrigo González de la Puebla, a Cristiano nuevo, which from 1485 to 1489 Ambassador to London was, Puebla presented in the eyes of Ayala profit, corruption and weakness dar.
Walter Starkie certified Ayala, pride, arrogance, succeeded only partially to conceal his economic hardship and violence. His egotism was his role as archdeacon in the cathedral of Lincoln does not do justice.
On July 25, 1498 Ayala wrote from England a letter to Ferdinand II of Aragon, in which he brazenly reward for his " brilliant Scottish success " demanded by the house Trastámara and by a discovery expedition of a Genoese, Giovanni Caboto, on behalf of Henry VII reported.
Roped to the Inquisitor
When Philip I. died in 1506, Ayala was elected with the support of Gonzalo Jiménez de Cisneros, whose confidant he was on November 20, 1507 Bishop of the Diocese of the Canary Islands.
The Diocese of the Canary Islands was later placed under the Archbishopric of Seville.
1504 transported Aruj Barbarossa (* 1463 ), a brother of Khair ad-Din Barbarossa, Muslims and Jews who were fleeing from the Rekonquista, on its ships, to North Africa.
Many of these refugees came to Oran, traditionally had close trade relations with the Nasrid Spain. 1505 attacked a Spanish intervention force, which had equipped the Archbishop of Toledo and Inquisitor Gonzalo Jiménez de Cisneros, Oran and occupied the port of Mers- el- Kebir.
1509 captured a Spanish intervention force, which was this time accompanied by the entrepreneur of raiding Cisneros personally and under the command of Pedro Navarro was Oran. In Oran, the Crusaders massacred about 4,000 inhabitants and took another 8,000 captured. Mosques were ordained to churches, convents and rededicated in hospitals.
After the massacre, Gonzalo Jiménez de Cisneros wrote to his confidant Ayala, he should confront circulating on the farm lies, who claimed that he had not paid his intervention force: Never an army has been paid so well or been so well cared for.
When he died, Ayala had never visited his diocese in the Canaries. He was buried in Monasterio de San Juan de los Reyes in a Renaissance grave. His grave site bears the following inscription: Peter de Ayala Canariensis Episcopus. Sanctae Ecclesiae Toletanae Decanus et Regius consiliarius. His sarcophagus is located in the Archaeological Museum de Toledo.