Alonso Enríquez (1354-1429)

Alonso Enríquez
Lord of Medina de Rioseco Admiral of Castile
Arms of Alonso Enríquez
Spouse(s)	Juana de Mendoza y de Orozco
Noble family	House of Enríquez
Father	Fadrique Alfonso, Lord of Haro
Mother	Paloma
Born	1354 Guadalcanal
Died	1429 Guadalupe
Buried	Monastery of Santa Clara, Palencia

Alonso Enríquez (Guadalcanal, 1354   Guadalupe, 1429) was Lord of Medina de Rioseco and Admiral of Castile.

Alonso Enriquez de Castilla was the son of Fadrique Alfonso, 25th Master of the Order of Santiago, and an unnamed lady. His father was murdered on 29 May 1358 in the Alcázar of Seville, on the orders of his brother Peter.

He was the founder of the lineage of Enriquez, and is the first Admiral of Castile of his family since 1405, and first lord of Medina de Rio Seco. His paternal grandparents were King Alfonso XI of Castile and Eleanor de Guzmán. He was a nephew of King Henry II of Castile and cousin of King John I of Castile. His brother was Pedro Enriquez de Castilla, Count of Trastámara, Lemos and Sarria, Constable of Castile and Pertiguero mayor de Santiago. His sister was Eleanor of Castile, who married the Marshal of Castile Diego Gomez Sarmiento.

Alonso Enriquez remained hidden while living with his uncle Pedro I of Castile, who ordered to kill his father in 1358 in the Alcazar of Seville. Although contemporary Castilian chroniclers wrapped the figure of his mother in mystery and later genealogists do not mention her, other authors, for example, the Portuguese Fernão Lopes wrote in connection with events that occurred in 1384, that the Admiral was the son of a Jewess.
The "Memorial of old things" attributed to the dean of Toledo, Diego de Castilla, said Fadrique had Alonso from a Jewess from Guadalcanal called Paloma. He tells a story where King Ferdinand the Catholic was hunting and was a hawk with a heron and both walked away, leaving the king to follow, and Martin de Rojas was always with abandon hawk until he saw the heron and pull after a dove. Asking the king for his hawk, Martin replied, "Lord, there goes after our grandmother", being a descendant of Martin Paloma.