Don Inigo Lopez de Mendoza was created first Count of Tendilla in 1465. He was Captain-General of Andalusia. [Sidenote: The Counts of Tendilla.] He married Doña Elvira de Quiñones, daughter of Don Diego Fernandez, Lord of Luna. Their children were:-- 1. Don Inigo Lopez de Mendoza, second Count of Tendilla. 2. Don Diego de Mendoza, Archbishop of Seville. 3. Don Pedro de Mendoza, married to Juana Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca. 4. Doña Catalina, wife of Don Diego de Sandoval, Marquis of Denia. 5. Doña Mencia, wife of Don Pedro Carillo, Lord of Toralva. Don Inigo Lopez de Mendoza, second Count of Tendilla and first Marquis of Mondejar, Grandee of Spain and Viceroy of Granada. He married his first cousin, Doña Maria Laso de Mendoza, but had no children by her. He married, secondly, Doña Francisca Pacheco, daughter of the Duke of Escalona, by whom he had eight children:-- 1. Don Luis de Mendoza, third Count of Tendilla, Viceroy of Navarre, President of the Council of the Indies, second Marquis of Mondejar, Captain-General of Granada. 2. Don Bernardo de Mendoza, slain at St. Quentin, 1557. 3. Don Antonio de Mendoza, Viceroy of Peru, 1550. 4. Don Francisco de Mendoza, Bishop of Jaen. 5. Don Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, of whom we treat. 6. Don Bernardino de Mendoza, General of the galleys. 7. Doña Maria de Mendoza, wife of the Count of Monteagudo. 8. Doña Maria Pacheco, married to Don Juan de Padilla. Veinte y tres generaciones La prosapia de Mendoza No hay linage en toda España De quien conozca Tan notable antiguedad. LOPE DE VEGA. DON DIEGO HURTADO DE MENDOZA, AUTHOR OF “LAZARILLO DE TORMES” Don Diego Hurtado de Mendoza was the fifth son of the Marquis of Mondejar and Count of Tendilla, first Spanish Governor of Granada, by Francisca Pacheco, daughter of the Duke of Escalona. The Governor had a palace in the Alhambra near the Torre de Picos, which is now demolished. But the smaller house of his esquire, Antasio de Bracamonte, still stands in a garden, built against the exquisite little mosque on the walls. There are three shields of arms carved on the walls of Bracamonte’s house. The palace and the esquire’s house, both within the walls of the Alhambra, looked across the valley of the Darro to the Albaicín. Both buildings were surrounded by gardens and fruit-trees. [Sidenote: Birth of Don Diego in the Alhambra.] In this romantic spot Diego was born in the year 1503, and he passed his early years with his brothers and sisters there. Pedro Martir de Angleria was his tutor. At an early age he went to the university of Salamanca, where he learnt Latin, Greek, and Arabic, and studied canon and civil law. [Sidenote: Don Diego at Salamanca.] While he was a student at Salamanca Don Diego wrote _Lazarillo de Tormes_.