Marquisate of Cenete

The Marquisate of Cenete (alternatively, of Zenete, El Cenete, or El Zenete; Spanish: marquesado del Cenete/Zenete) is a noble title first granted in 1491 by Queen Isabel I of Castile to Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar y Mendoza, First Count del Cid.

The name refers to the Andalusian comarca of Zenete in the province of Granada.Zenete or Cenete may derive from the Arabic sened, meaning the slope that constitutes one side of a mountain range, referring to the north side of the Sierra Nevada. Another possibility is that the name refers to the Zenata Berber tribes, which were highly respected in medeaval Spain for their horsemanship. Jinete, the Spanish word for horseman, is derived from this people. The Marquisate was promoted to grandeeship 15 May 1909.

The current marquess is Mencía López-Becerra de Solé y de Casanova.

One of the young children besides the senior, a sixth child, of famous literary man Iñigo López de Mendoza, (1398–1458), was the Bishop of Calahorra and of Sigüenza since 1473 and later Cardinal of Toledo, the highest ecclesiastical distinction in Spain from a Pope, became to be known as Pedro González de Mendoza, (1428–1495), a.k.a. Cardinal and statesman Cardenal Mendoza. While being a Roman Catholic bishop at Calahorra and therefore upposed not to have a sexiual life leading to descendency, he became attached to Doña Mencia de Lemus, a Portuguese lady-in-waiting of the queen. She bore him two sons, Rodrigo, who was once selected in a list of candidates to be the husband of Lucrezia Borgia, one of the children fathered in Rome by the later Spanish Roman Catholic Pope Alexander VI, and Diego, who was the grandfather of the princess of Eboli of the reign of Philip II (see Antonio Perez) By Inés de Tovar, a lady of a Valladolid family, he had a third son (Juan Hurtado de Mendoza y Tovar) who afterwards emigrated to France.

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