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Birth date:

15/3 (1457)

Death date:

16/1 (1508)

Nationality:

Italian

Biography:

Beatrice of Aragon, daughter of Ferdinand I of Naples and Isabella of Clermont, was twice queen of Hungary by her marriages to Matthias Corvinus (in 1476) and, after his death in 1490, to Vladislaus II (in 1491), but the latter marriage was declared illegal by the pope in 1500, and she returned to Naples in 1502.

The Mellon chansonnier was most likely compiled as a wedding gift for Beatrice ca. 1475-1476.

Locations:

Other countries›Europa›Italia›Napoli/Naples/Nápoles

Other countries›Europa›Italia›Regno di Napoli

Submission’s author:

Emilio Ros-Fábregas

Beatrice of Naples [Beatriz de Aragón]

16-XI-1457 — 23-IX-1508)

member of the nobility or royalty / miembro de la nobleza o realeza, woman, women / mujer, mujeres

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Birth date:

16/1 (1510)

Death date:

16/3 (1572)

Nationality:

Spanish

Biography:

San Francisco de Borja, IV duque of Gandía, was also a composer. Works attributed to him are: the 1551 liturgical drama Visitatio sepulchri, a Mass and a Ludi paschalis. The 16th-century inventory of Tarazona Cathedral choirbooks attributes to the Duke of Gandía the motet Exaltata in a lost manuscript; see Document 16/4 (1591) [5] in the following link: http://hispanicpolyphony.eu/node/16492

Locations:

Aragón›Zaragoza›Tarazona

Comunidad Valenciana›Valencia›Gandía

Other countries›Europa›Italia›Roma

Submission’s author:

Emilio Ros-Fábregas

Borja y Aragón, (San) Francisco, IV duque de Gandía

Gandía, Valencia, 28-X-1510 — Roma, 30-IX-1572

composer / compositor/a

member of the nobility or royalty / miembro de la nobleza o realeza

Details

Birth date:

16/2 (1533)

Death date:

17/1 (1606)

Nationality:

Spanish

Institutions:

Colegiata de Santa María, Gandía (Valencia)

Biography:

Juan de Borja y Castro was a nobleman and diplomat; he was the third son of San Francisco de Borja y Aragón, IV Duke of Gandía. He was the dedicatee of the manuscript B-Bc 27086, compiled in Vienna between 1577 and 1579, while Juan de Borja, I Count of Mayalde, served as mayordomo mayor of the Empress Dowager Maria of Austria, Philip II's sister and widow of Maximillian II. Juan de Borja was the Duke of Lerma's oncle.

Submission’s author:

Emilio Ros-Fábregas

Borja y Castro, Juan de

Bellpuig, Lérida/Lleida, 1533 — El Escorial, 1606

dedicatee of publication (or manuscript) / dedicatario de publicación (o manuscrito), member of the nobility or royalty / miembro de la nobleza o realeza, mentioned in music source or document / mencionado/a en fuente musical o documento, owner of book / propietario/a de libro

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Birth date:

18/2 (?)

Death date:

18/2 (1745)

Nationality:

Spanish

Institutions:

Monasterio de Santa Ana, Ávila. Archivo

Periods of service:

1743-1745 Monastery of Santa Ana de Ávila (nun)

Biography:

Alfonso de Vicente (2019), annotated: "Manuela de Bullón y Miñano era abulense, de la noble familia de los Bullones. Tomó el hábito el 6-VIII-1743, profesó el 9-VIII-1744 y murió al año siguiente, el 26-VIII"; he also mentioned a "Dúo con violines para la entrada de Dª Manuela Bullón en el convento de Santa Ana: Año de 1743, anónimo".

Locations:

Castilla y León›Ávila›Ávila (ciudad)

Submission’s author:

María Gembero-Ustárroz

Bullón Miñano, Manuela

Ávila, ? — Ávila, 26-VIII-1745

dedicatee of publication (or manuscript) / dedicatario de publicación (o manuscrito), member of the nobility or royalty / miembro de la nobleza o realeza, nun / monja, woman, women / mujer, mujeres