LUIS DE AVILA Y ZUNIGA (c.1490 C. 1560)
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Originally appearing in Volume
V03,
Page 65
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
LUIS DE See also:AVILA Y ZUNIGA (c.1490 C. 1560)
, See also:Spanish historian, was See also:born at Placentia
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He was probably of See also:low origin, but married a wealthy heiress of the See also:family of Zuniga, whose name he added to his own
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He See also:rose rapidly in the favour of the See also:emperor See also:Charles V., served as See also:ambassador to See also:Rome, and was made See also:grand See also:commander of the See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order of the Knights of See also:Alcantara
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He accompanied the emperor to See also:Africa in 1541, and having served during the See also:war of the See also:league of See also:Schmalkalden, wrote a See also:history of this war entitled Commentaries de la guerra de Alemana, hecha de See also:Carlos V en el See also:alto de 1546 y 1547
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This was first printed in 1548, and becoming very popular was translated into See also:French, Dutch, See also:German, See also:Italian and Latin
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As may be expected from the author's intimacy with Charles, the See also:book is very partial to the emperor, and its misrepresentations have been severely criticized
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