Pedro Pardo de Cela Rodriguez de Aguiar e Ribadeneyra was a fifteenth century Marshal of Galicia, son of Joam Nunes Pardo, senhor da Torre Cela and Dona Teresa Rodriguez de Aguiar. He was beheaded on October 3, 1483, along with his son Peter, in front of the cathedral of Mondoñedo by order of the Catholic Monarchs.
Biography
Pedro Pardo de Cela was a feudal lord. Supporter of the Infanta Joanna la Beltraneja of Portugal, the death of her father, Henry IV of Castile faced the policy of the new kings of Castile, Isabella I of Castile and her husband, Ferdinand II of Aragon. He was married to the daughter of the first Earl of Lemos, IsabelPerez Osorio. The latter came with his uncle, Pedro Enríquez, bishop of Mondoñedo, city of Mondoñedo, where Pardo de Cela was merino representing the House of Lemos. Bishop Pedro Enriquez gave her wedding dowry in 1441 all the revenues of the bishopric, except those needed for their livelihood, made up most of the castles and fortresses of the bishopric dependent, counting among them the reconstructed castle Frouxeira. Bishop Pedro Enriquez had previously been cantor of the Cathedral of Orense, the son of Enrique Enriquez, brotherFadrique Enríquez of Castile, Duke of Arjona. He died a bishop in 1445, he moved to Viveiro, where he became mayor in 1474 obtaining the title of marshal. Buy the "casa do Carballo of Galdo," head of his morgado. In the year 1476 it is removed from the hall by the Catholic Monarchs. In 1478 he was expelled from Vivero and the Catholic Monarchs wrote to the municipalities of Santa Marta de Ortigueira and Mondoñedo so they would not allow their entry. Ask for a letter of "safe harbor" to the Kings and took refuge in the Castle gives Frouxeira, where he is strong with "the other two Pedros", Pedro de Bolaño and Pedro de Miranda, and defeat the Spanish troops, commanded by Fernando Cunha, son of the Count of Buendia, and Luis de Mudarra, who came to Galicia in September 1480 to "pacify" the Kingdom. Pedro Pardo de Cela's last will was found in 2013 by the famous historician Eduardo Pardo de Guevara, and it revealed that many of the stories told about him were not true.
