Calle del Marqués de Mondéjar

The title was born in the town of Mondéjar, in Guadalajara, which the Mendoza family had held as a lordship since the mid-15th century. Ferdinand the Catholic, then governing in the name of his daughter Joanna I, signed the grant on 25 September 1512 and gave it to Íñigo López de Mendoza y Quiñones, 2nd Count of Tendilla. That first marquess became, after the fall of Granada in 1492, perpetual governor of the Alhambra and captain general of the whole kingdom. Things changed in 1654, when the marquisate passed by marriage to Gaspar Ibáñez de Segovia (Madrid, 1628 – Mondéjar, 1708). He took it up in 1678 and assembled a library of some six thousand volumes that ended up in the Royal Library in 1744; he examined medieval documents with a critical rigour rare for his time. The street lies in the Fuente del Berro neighbourhood, developed mainly between the 1920s and 1940s. The date of the municipal agreement has not survived, nor is it known which of the marquesses the residents meant to remember.