Pedro Ponce de León the Elder

Pedro Ponce de León the Elder
Died	1352
Nationality	Castilian
Occupation	Nobleman

Pedro Ponce de León the Elder (died 1352) was a Castilian nobleman, grandson of King Alfonso IX of León. He was a knight of the Order of the Band, and Lord of Marchena, Bailén, Rota, Mairena del Alcor, Bornos and Oliva de la Frontera.

Pedro Ponce de León was the son of Fernando Ponce de León y Meneses, Lord of Marchena, and Isabel Pérez de Guzmán, Lady of Chipiona and Rota. His father's parents were Fernán Pérez Ponce de León I, Adelantado mayor of the Andalucía frontier and lord of the Puebla de Asturias, and his wife, Urraca Gutiérrez de Meneses. His mother was daughter of Alonso Pérez de Guzmán, famous for defending the city of Tarifa and first lord of Sanlúcar de Barrameda, and his wife, María Alfonso Coronel. He was the brother of Fernando Pérez Ponce de León, Master of the Order of Alcántara between 1346 and 1355.

He was the paternal grandson of King Alfonso IX of León.

The birth date of Pedro Ponce de León is unknown. His father, Fernando Ponce de León y Meneses, fell out with the king of Castile and León as a youth and moved to Aragon, where King Peter III of Aragon gave him various properties. He later returned to Castile and was given the town of Marchena in 1309 by King Ferdinand IV of Castile. King Alfonso XI of Castile the Just (1311-1350) confirmed many of Pedro Ponce de León's privileges as a Castilian nobleman. On 6 April 1331 Alfonso XI was in the city of Seville. There he confirmed Pedro as Lord of Marchena, which had belonged to his father, for good services to the king at the Battle of Teba (1330). During the king's coronation he was made a knight of the Order of the Band, instituted by Alfonso XI.

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