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Leonor López de Córdova was born in Calatayud around 1362-1363. Her family had powerful connections: her mother was niece to king Alfonso XI and her father was the Master of the military Order of Calatrava. Leonor acted as adviser to queen Catalina de Lancaster, who was a regent for her son Juan II during his minority. But her family's support of the deposed king Pedro I of Castile landed them in prison, where many of her relatives died. Leonor wrote her memories around 1412.
| Names (spelling modernized): | Relation with Leonor | Notes & refs. |
| From her father's side | ||
| Martín López de Córdoba | father | Master of Calatrava, p. 44 |
| From her mother's side | ||
| Sancha Carrillo | mother | p. 44 |
| María García Carrillo | aunt | p. 54 |
| Theresa Fernández Carrillo | maternal aunt | p. 54 |
| Gonzalo Díaz Carrillo | brother of maternal aunt | p. 54 |
| Diego Carrillo | brother of maternal aunt | p. 54 |
| Juan Fernández Carrillo | father of the maternal uncles = grandfather? | p. 54 |
| Sancha de Rojas | mother of the maternal uncles = grandmother? | p. 54 |
| Gonzalo Fernández | husband of her aunt María García Carrillo | p. 58 |
| Alfonso Fernández | son of her aunt María García Carrillo | Lord of Aguilar and of the Mariscal, p. 58 |
| Leonor and siblings | ||
| Leonor López de Córdoba Leonor López*1 |
p. 44 native of Córdoba according to the chronicle of Juan II, p. 74 |
|
| Lope López de Córdoba Carrillo | brother | p. 48 |
| From the husband' side | ||
| Ruy Gutierrez de Henestrosa Ruy Gutiérrez de Hinestrosa*2 |
husband | p. 46 p. 82 |
| María de Haro | mother of the husband | Lady of Haro, p. 46 |
| Juan Fernández de Henestrosa | father of the husband | p. 46 |
| Lope Fernández de Padilla | uncle of the husband | p. 54 |
| Children | ||
| Juan Fernández de Henestrosa | son of Leonor | "like his grandfather", p. 64 |
| Leonor Gutierrez de Ynestrosa*2 | daughter | p. 82 |
| Brothers-in-law and their families | ||
| Alvaro Rodríguez de Aza | father of the brothers-in-law | p. 48 |
| Constanza de Villalobos | mother of the brothers-in-law | p. 48 |
| Fernán Rodríguez de Aza | brother-in-law, lord of Aza and Villalobos | p. 48 |
| Ruy García de Aza | brother-in-law | p. 48 |
| Lope Rodríguez de Aza | brother-in-law | p. 48 |
| Others | ||
| (Mosén) Beltrán de Clequín | p. 50 | |
| Sancho Miñez de Villendra | Camarero mayor, p. 52 | |
| Gonzalo Ruiz Bolante | Alcaide, p. 52 | |
| Martín Fernández | alcaide de los donzeles, p. 58 | |
| Fernando Alonso Mediobarba | owner of a house at which Leonor stayed some time | p. 62 |
| Miguel de Santaella | servant to her father | p. 62 |
| Ferrando Alonso de Robres*3 Ferrand Alonso de Robles*3 Ferrant Alonso de Robles*3 |
Leonor made him secretary to queen Catalina | p. 86 p. 90 p. 90 |
| Ferrand López de Saldañas*3 | p. 88 | |
* Appears in the appendices (letters and related documents - see notes below).
1. Her name appears as Leonor López (without the locativo "de Córdoba") in the texts taken from Crónica de Juan II. The full name appears in the other appended texts and in her memoirs. In the last two appendices the name appears to have been minimally modernized, with only the addition of the accents, and appears as Leonor López de Córdova.
According to some [1] Cordova was the common spelling for the city and region of that name in the 15th century. But other data [2] point to both spellings being used, with Cordoba prevailing. It might well be a matter of geographical variations in spelling.
[1] Emilio Cabrera y Andrés Moros, Fuenteovejuna - La violencia antiseñorial en el siglo XV, Editorial Crítica, Barcelona 1991.
[2] Juliana de Luna, "Spanish Names from the Late 15th Century" (WWW: J. Mittleman, 1999-2000) http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/juliana/isabella/.
2. From the Relación de la Descendencia.... The spelling varies from Ynestrosa to Hinestrosa even within the same sentence.
3. From Generaciones e Semblanzas
Memorias de Leonor López de Córdoba, ed. Lia Vozzo Mendia, Pratiche Editrice, Parma 1992
Includes the following extracts as appendices: