Was one of the great divisive figures of Spanish history a loyal servant wander by the king or a barbarous schemer who committed regicide twice ? Take a looking at the life of Álvaro de Luna and judge for yourself .

There are many popular historical figures , but the genuine darlings of story can be looked at two opposite way . Was Anne Boleyn an innocent woman , caught up and then killed by a bloody-minded king or a calculating social assassin whose luck finally run out ? Was Caligula an eccentric but competent emperor maligned by critics who made up outlandish tale about him , or was he a full - on murderous sociopath ?

To this list of these controversial human body , add Álvaro de Luna . This humans , give birth at the ending of the 1300s , came from a family of noble devoted to the kings of Castile . His begetter had been cupful - bearer to king Henry III , and Álvaro himself became a favorite of Henry ’s son , Juan II . Exactly what that favorite condition involve is up for debate . Some believe they were fast friends . Some believed that the king renounce all real duty to de Luna and know how much he depended on him .

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rumor that Juan II and de Luna were lover swirled around the court , and stay credible enough that de Luna is mentioned inqueer studies booksto this twenty-four hour period . rum details bolster up the hypothesis . De Luna ’s most outrageous blowup come when Queen Isabel , the king ’s second wife , decide unexpectedly to stay on the night with the big businessman . De Luna beat on her door and enjoin her he decided when she could spend private time with the male monarch , and that he could “ unmarry ” her if she disobeyed him .

Unmarriage would have been a pretty dear plenty , deliberate what happened to Juan ’s first wife . Maria of Aragon was a formidable woman . She was a member of the Infantes of Aragon , a group of 15th 100 noble siblings who grew up to rule most of the Iberian peninsula , in part because they had each other ’s backs . Maria ’s biggest angel was Leonor of Aragon , the Queen of Portugal . Maria managed to get De Luna shake off out of royal court , and then an odd thing happened . Both Maria and Leonor , hundreds of miles aside , recrudesce purple bulge all over their consistency , lurch over , and pass .

Back de Luna came to the court , and he was as brawny as ever . He was the man who had arranged the marriage of Juan and Isabel , when Juan himself would have prefer another queen — so it was meet that Isabel was the one who lead de Luna down . Another mystic death at court , this time of the king ’s accountant . De Luna was the richest human race , next to the B. B. King , in the entire kingdom . According to some , those rich people had been given to him legitimately from the king — as some of them sure enough had been . Other contemporaries , admit Isabel , believed that de Luna had been embroider his income and had silenced the accountant . finally , Isabel ’s view won out . De Luna was give a show run and behead . It was accustomed to tie the condemned man ’s hands behind his consistence . De Luna turn down the even Mexican valium , and salute the executioner with a rope made of silk which he had brought for the social function .

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So he unquestionably had expressive style .

But was he an intriguer , an defalcator , and a liquidator ? Or was he just a hard - go diplomatic minister who took all the pressure off a work-shy Riley B King , and then take away the fall for a offence he did n’t commit ? It could go either style . Biographies of de Lunaadmit that , “ over-embellished weals on the body , arms , hands , and face would be compatible with some forms of toxic condition , ” but state that “ other indicators like vomiting and stomachic fuss are not immortalise . ”

What do you think ? Hardest working man in the kingdom ? Or insensate - blooded cause of death .

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