[607] It is Perez de Guzman, uncle of the Marquis, who declares (Generaciones y Semblanzas, Cap. 9) that the father of the Marquis had larger estates than any other Castilian knight; to which may be added what Oviedo says so characteristically of the young nobleman, that, “as he grew up, he recovered his estates partly by law and partly by force of arms, and so began forthwith to be accounted much of a man.” Batalla I. Quinquagena i. Diálogo 8, MS.
[608] Crónica de D. Juan el Segundo, Año 1428, Cap. 7.
[609] Sanchez, Poesías Anteriores, Tom. I. pp. v., etc.
[610] Crónica de D. Juan el Segundo, Año 1438, Cap. 2; 1445, Cap. 17; and Salazar de Mendoza, Dignidades de Castilla, Lib. III. c. 14.
[611] Crónica de D. Juan el Segundo, Año 1432, Capp. 4 and 5.
[612] Ibid., Año 1433, Cap. 2.
[613] Ibid., Año 1449, Cap. 11.
[614] Ibid., Año 1452, Capp. 1, etc.
[615] The principal facts in the life of the Marquis of Santillana are to be gathered—as, from his rank and consideration in the state, might be expected—out of the Chronicle of John II., in which he constantly appears after the year 1414; but a very lively and successful sketch of him is to be found in the fourth chapter of Pulgar’s “Claros Varones,” and an elaborate, but ill-digested, biography in the first volume of Sanchez, “Poesías Anteriores.”
[616] In the “Introduction del Marques á los Proverbios,” Anvers, 1552, 18mo, f. 150.