Pedro Álvarez de Soutomaior | |
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Count of Caminha Viscount of Tuy | |
Full name | Pedro Álvarez de Soutomaior |
Born | c. 1430 Pontevedra, Galicia |
Died | 1486 Alba de Tormes, Castile |
Residence | Soutomaior Castle |
Wars and battles | Irmandiño revolts War of the Castilian Succession |
Spouse(s) | Teresa de Távora |
Father | Fernán Eanes de Sotomaior |
Mother | Constança Gonçalves (?) |
Pedro Álvarez de Soutomaior (c. 1430 – 1486), known by the sobriquet Pedro Madruga, was a Galician nobleman and knight. He was a notable figure in Galicia where he exerted certain influence in the Portuguese court, as well as spending time in that of Castile. He was one of the leading lords who suppressed the Irmandiño peasant revolts in the 1460s, and also fought in favor of the Portuguese-backed claimant to the Castilian throne, Joanna la Beltraneja, in the War of the Castilian Succession.