López de Ayala

[ law-peth the ah-yah-lah, law-pes ]

noun

1. Pe·dro [pe, -, th, r, aw], 1332–1407, Spanish writer and statesman.

Example Sentences

Romans, however, sometimes employed red-hot bolts, which were ejected from catapults.75.Lopez de Ayala, “Historia de Gibraltar.”76.“Memoirs of Sully,” bk. xx.77.In a memorial presented to Philip V. after the capture, it was stated that the garrison comprised “fewer than 300 men; a few poor and raw peasants.”

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Pedro Lopez de Ayala received on the king's return to Madrid the title of Count of his town of Fuensalida, and shortly afterwards, at Medina del Campo, a grant of the towns of Casaruvias del monte, Chocas, and Arroyomolinos.

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It was Pedro Lopez de Ayala, son of the one-eyed lord of Fuensalida created Count by Enrique the Fourth, that built the castle.

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Others maintain its founder to have been Pedro Lopez de Ayala, first Count of Fuensalida.

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See Rafael Floranes, "Vida literaria de Pedro Lopez de Ayala," in the Documentos in�ditos para la historia de Espa�a, vols. xix. and xx.;

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