THE SPANISH ROYAL COURT OF POET GARCI LASSO DE LA VEGA Poet AKA Garcilaso de la Vega (y Suarez de Figueroa [y de Guzman]) A. Lopez-Cadena, Wash., DC 8-16-14© Garsilaso is an interesting person from the De La Vega family. Im unsure what genealogical line hes from, but I decided to include as much info as possible. Perhaps someone in this group will be able to clarify this. Did his descendants settled in Tejas? Garcilaso de la Vega (y Suarez de Figueroa [y de Guzman]), was born in Toledo on April 22, 1503? His date of birth is disputed and deemed between 1498 and 1503. He died on October 14, 1536. Garcilaso was an aristocrat, soldier, and poet. Family and Court Life His parents Pedro Suárez de Figueroa, and Sancha de Guzmán, were members of the court of Queen Isabela and King Ferdinand. He had six brothers and sisters, Leanor, Pedro, Fernando, Francisco, Gonzalo, and Juana. As the second-oldest son, Garcilaso did not inherit his fathers estate. He did receive a thorough education, mastered Spanish, Greek, Latin, Italian and French, and learned how to play the harp, zither, and lute. Later, he joined the military hoping to be a royal guard. Ultimately named contino or imperial guard to Charles V in 1520, he became a Knight of Santiago (St. James) in 1523. His beloved Guiomar Carrillo bore him an illegitimate child, and it was said Isabel Freire did too. Isabel was lady-in-waiting to Isabel of Portugal. Garcilaso got permission to marry Elena de Zúñiga. They married in Toledo in one of his familys estates in 1525. Elena was lady-in-waiting for the kings favorite sister. They had 5 children, Garcilaso, Íñigo de Zúñiga, Pedro de Guzmán, Sancha, and Francisco. He had Lorenzo with Guiomar Carrillo. Briefly exiled to an island along the Danube near Regensburg (Radasbona in Celtic) in 1532, Garcilaso was a guest of Count György Cseszneky, royal court judge of Győr. He was held for conspiring to marry his nephew to a prominent lady-in-waiting. Nobility needed permission to marry from the king, as there were issues of political alliances, or royal relations that could conflict with the interests of the realm. Upon his release, he worked for the Marqués de Villafranca, Viceroy of southern France, and the Duke of Alba in Naples. Military Career Garcilaso distinguished himself in battle while serving Emperor Charles V. He fought in the Guerra de las Comunidades de Castilla 1520-21 (War of the Communities of Castile), when citizens of Castile revolted against the king. He campaigned against the French in Navarre, and was gravely wounded in Battle of Olias. He battled in Tunis on May of 1535. On June 1, aided by a Genoese fleet oared by two thousand Jewish [Sephardic?] slaves, Spain destroyed Barbarossas forces. This costly, but successful siege at La Goletta was financed with gold bullion from the Incas. They paid a ransom for the release of Incan Emperor Atahualpa, but the Spaniards killed him anyway. Amid the ruins at La Goletta, the Spanish found cannon balls with the French fleur-de-lys stamp. Clear evidence of a Franco-Ottoman alliance. Garcilaso joined campaigns, in Italy, and Germany too, and was wounded in 1536 in an assault on a fortified position. Garcilaso died on October 14, twenty-five days after the Battle of Le Muy, in Nice, France [duchy of Savoy]. Charles V had sought to control the shipping lanes of the Mediterranean Sea from Marseille. Garcilaso was buried in the Church of Santo Domingo in Nice. His wife had him moved two years later to the Church of San Pedro Martin in Toledo, Spain. His Writings Garcilaso was influential in introducing Italian Renaissance verse forms, poetic techniques, and themes to Spain. He is best known for tragic love poetry, contrasting with the playful poetry of his predecessors during that era. It was said the early death of Isabel Freire, his love, influenced his work. His first eulogy: Contigo mano a mano, busquemos otros prados, y otros ríos, otros valles floridos y sombríos, donde descanse, y siempre pueda verte ante los ojos míos, sin miedo y sobresalto de perderte. Translation: (You and I, hand-in-hand, will find other forests, and rivers, other shady, flowering valleys where to rest, and my eyes will always see you without fear of losing you.) There are three distinct periods of his creative work. During his Spanish period, he wrote mostly eight-syllable poems. In the Italian or Petrarchan period, Garcilaso wrote sonnets and songs. He used the eleven-syllable line in his Spanish sonetos written the 1520s. After meeting poet Juan Boscán Almogáver, Garcilaso wrote in Italianate metres. He was influenced by Italian Renaissance poets Giovanni Boccaccio, Petrarch, and Jacopo Sannazzaro. His third era was the Neapolitan or classic period, when he wrote poems, elegies, letters, eclogues and odes. A consummate craftsman, Garcilaso transformed the Italianate metres into Spanish verse of fine lyric quality. His noted innovations are stanzas known as silva and liva, which combine 7- and 11-syllable lines. This then focuses on an analytical expression of thought and emotion. His themes are sad laments, or compositions about ruined romances, and are conventionally portrayed in pastoral verse. He continually edited and refined his poetry, surpassing his contemporaries, and greatly influencing Spanish verse. He wrote 38 sonnets, 5 canciones, 3 eclogues, 2 elegies, 1 epistle, and 8 coplas (songs). Published together with the works of Boscán, by Boscáns widow, in 1543, they were soon deemed classics. This largely influenced the course of lyric poetry throughout Spain’s Golden Age. Please two photos of Garcilaso. References The Encyclopedia Britannica. Geoffrey Parker, Lesley M. Smith The General crisis of the seventeenth century Routledge, 1978 ISBN 0710088655. María Antonia Garcés Cervantes in Algiers: A Captives Tale Vanderbilt University Press, 2005 ISBN 0826514707. The Encyclopedia of World History, Peter N. Stearns, William Leonard Langer, p.366. The New Cambridge Modern History, R. B. Wernham, p.354. The Regency of Tunis and the Ottoman Porte, 1777-1814: Army and Government of a North-African Ottoman Eyâlet at the End of the Eighteenth Century by Asma Moalla, Routledge, 2004 ISBN 0415297818, p.3. Genealogy Reference: Tabla de Parentescos de don Fernando de Castilla, Regidor de La Palma (S. XVI). Father: Garci LASSO DE LA VEGA, born 22 April 1503, Toledo, died on 24 October 1536, Le Muy, France (Age 33 years). Mother: Elena de ZÚÑIGA, born circa 1505. DAUGHTER: Sancha de GUZMÁN LASSO DE LA VEGA, born circa 1535. From the family of Antonio PORTOCARRERO DE LA VEGA, Primer Señor de La Monclova, born circa 1525. Issue: Luis PORTOCARRERO DE LA VEGA, II Señor de La Monclova, b. Abt 1565, d. ? Leonor María de la VEGA, born circa 1566. Notes geneall.net/H/per_page.php?id=187507 SALAZAR DE CASTRO, L. (1795), folios de costados de gran parte de las primeras casas de estos reinos cuyos dueños vivían en 1683. Madrid, imprenta de don Antonio Cruzado, folios 88 y 143.
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