Juan Núñez II de Lara

Juan Núñez II de Lara ( c. 1276 – 1315 in Burgos), nicknamed el Mozo or el de la Barba (the bearded one), was a Spanish noble, and head of the House of Lara in the service of the Kingdom of Castile.

Amongst other titles, he was the Mayordomo Mayor del Rey four times and was the Adelantado Mayor de la Frontera de Andalucía. He was also the nominal title holder over the Sinyoría d'Albarrazín though it was incorporated into the crown of the Kingdom of Aragon in 1300.

Juan's parents were Juan Núñez I de Lara (d. 1294), head of the House of Lara, and Teresa de Haro, daughter of Diego López III de Haro, the seventh Lord of Biscay and of Constanza de Bearne. Teresa was the sister of Lope Díaz III de Haro and of Diego López V de Haro, both Lords of Biscay.

In the chronicles of the king, Sancho IV of Castile, one anecdote is dedicated to this Juan Nunez where the monarch entrusts Juan with the care of his son, infante Ferdinand.

Don Juan Nuñez, bien sabedes commo llegastes hasta mi mozo sin barbas, é fice vos mucha merced, lo uno en casamiento que vos dí muy bueno, é lo otro en cuantía, e ruego vos que pues yo so tan mal andante commo vos vedes, que si yo muriere, que nunca vos desamparedes al infante don Fernando, mi fijo, fasta que el hay a barbas é otrosí, que sirvades a la reina en toda su vida ça mucho vos lo meresció á vos é á vuestro linaje.

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