Constanza de Acuña y Avellaneda (n. 1570), heredera de un vasto patrimonio. En su epitafio: esposa y madre

"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"