De la Caballeria (or De la Cavallería), was a Sephardic family of Aragon, Spain, widely ramified, and influential through its wealth and scholarship, especially in Zaragoza. The family descended from Solomon ibn Labi de la Caballeria, who had nine...
Marina de la Caballería, full name Doña Marina Flores Gutierrez de la Caballería, (died 1540), was a Spanish pioneer, settler and noblewoman who colonized New Spain in the 16th century. She arrived to the New World in 1528 to reunite with her...
The Plaza de Toros de la Real Maestranza de Caballería de Sevilla is a 12,000-capacity bullring in Seville, Spain. During the annual Seville Fair in Seville, it is the site of one of the most well-known bullfighting festivals in the world. It is a...
Diego de la Caballería, full name Don Diego Gutierrez de la Caballería, also spelled Don Diego Gutierrez de la Cavallería, was a Spanish pioneer, settler and noble who took part in the colonization of New Spain in the 16th century. He traveled to...
Francisco Vázquez de Coronado (Spanish pronunciation: [fɾanˈθisko ˈβaθkeθ ðe koɾoˈnaðo]; 1510 – 22 September 1554) was a Spanish conquistador and explorer who led a large expedition from what is now Mexico to present-day Kansas through what is now...
Alonso Duque de Estrada (c. 1470, Ciudad Real, Castile – 16 February 1530, Veracruz) was a colonial official in New Spain during the period of Hernán Cortés' government, and before the appointment of the first viceroy. He was a member of the...
Bonafos Caballeria (died 1464) was an anti-Jewish writer. He was the son of Solomon ibn Labi de la Caballeria of Zaragoza and assumed the name of "Micer Pedro" upon converting to Christianity. From his early youth he devoted himself to the study of...
Maestranzas de caballería (literally translated as 'cavalry armories') are noble militias created in the early modern era by the Spanish Crown, with the aim of giving the nobility practice in horsemanship and the use of weapons. In the sixteenth...
The Real Maestranza de Caballería de Sevilla (Spanish for 'Royal Cavalry Armory of Seville') is a Spanish maestranza de caballería or chivalric order created in 1670 from the remnants of the preceding Cofradía de San Hermenegildo (or Hermandad...
The caballería (lit. 'cavalry') was a unit of land measurement in medieval Spain and in the Spanish viceroyalties in the Americas during the times of the Spanish Empire in the 16th through 19th centuries Spanish West Indies. The unit was widely used...