Juana Cortés Ramírez de Arellano

Juana Cortés Ramírez de Arellano (deceased in 1602), V marquesa of the Valley of Oaxaca. When he died before his predecessor, his brother Pedro, did not get to exercise the title, inheriting it and directly exerting it his daughter Estefanía Carrillo de Mendoza and Cortes, VI marquess of the Valley. Biography Juana Cortes was also granddaughter of Hernán Cortés, Governor and Captain General of New Spain, who received from the monarch Carlos I of Spain the marquesado of the Valley of Oaxaca in 1529 by the conquest of these lands in the present Mexico.

She was married to Pedro Carrillo de Mendoza, Count of Priego.

Received the title without being able to exercise it after death without descendants of his brothers: Fernando Cortés Ramírez de Arellano III marqués del Valle, Pedro Cortés Ramírez de Arellano IV marqués del Valle, and Jeronimo, who was knight of the Order of Alcántara . The lineage continued through his daughter Estefanía.

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