Open AccessConstanza de Acuña y Avellaneda (n. 1570), heredera de un vasto patrimonio. En su epitafio: esposa y madre
Author(s) -
Esperanza Mó Romero,
M.a Estela Maeso Fernández
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
clepsydra
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2530-8424
pISSN - 1579-7902
DOI - 10.25145/j.clepsydra.2022.22.03
Subject(s) - wife , humanities , art , character (mathematics) , descendant , political science , law , physics , geometry , mathematics , astronomy
"Constanza de Acuña is remembered as the second wife of the first Count of Gondomar. Nevertheless, she was a rich heiress as well as the last descendant of an important family from Valladolid (Spain). In this paper, we will try to meet not only a wife and mother, but also an intelligent aristocrat: a hidden woman behind her powerful husband, Diego Sarmiento de Acuña (1567-1626). This is, in brief, an innovate work, because doña Constanza has never been the main character of a research about her House. Finally, for all of this, we will draw on the famous letters from Count of Gondomar’s Archive"