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{{Short description|Lord consort of Alegrete, Vide and Sintra}}
[[Image:House of Lara COA.svg|thumb|250px|Arms of the [[House of Lara]].]]
'''Nuño González III de Lara''' (died 1296) was a [[Kingdom of Castile|Castilian]] [[nobility|noble]] of the [[House of Lara]]. He was the lord consort of Alegrete, [[Vide (Seia)|Vide]], and [[Sintra]] and served as [[Alférez|Alférez del rey]] for King [[Ferdinand IV of Castile]].
== Family origins ==
He was the son of [[Juan Núñez I de Lara]] ''the Fat'', head of the [[House of Lara]], and his wife, [[Teresa Díaz II de Haro]], [[Lord of Biscay|Lady of Biscay]]. His paternal grandparents were [[Nuño González de Lara (died 1275)|Nuño González de Lara]] ''el Bueno'', Head of the House of Lara, and his wife, Teresa Alfonso. His maternal grandparents were [[Diego López III de Haro]], Lord of Biscay and his wife, [[Constanza de Bearne]]. He was the great-great-grandson of [[Alfonso IX of León]] on both his mother's side and his father's side.
He was the brother of [[Juan Núñez II de Lara]], head of the House of Lara, of [[Teresa Núñez de Lara y Haro]], and of [[Juana Núñez de Lara]], who married [[Ferdinand de la Cerda, Lord of Lara]] (1275–1322), son of the infante [[Ferdinand de la Cerda]] and grandson of [[Alfonso X of Castile]].
== Biography ==
His exact date of birth is unknown. On 29 October 1288, he was confirmed together with his father and brother to the privileges granted by [[Sancho IV of Castile]] to the monastery of San Salvador de [[Pinilla de Molina]]. In August 1290, he accompanied his father to [[Valencia]] where he was working. His father signed an agreement during this period with King [[Alfonso III of Aragon]] wherein the two proposed to wage war against the [[Kingdom of Castile]] and to aid the Aragonese [[monarch]] in his war against Castile. Nevertheless, later in the same year, he returned with his father to Castile where King Sancho IV gave Nuño González a set of inheritances throughout the kingdom in exchange for an oath of loyalty from the young Lara.<ref>{{harv|Salazar y Castro|1697|p=193}}</ref>
During the Summer of 1293, whilst Nuño González and his brother, [[Juan Núñez II de Lara]] accompanied King Sancho IV to a meeting held in the city of [[Logroño]] with [[James II of Aragon]], their father was captured by the infante [[John of Castile, Lord of Valencia de Campos|John of Castile]], brother of King Sancho IV. The capture was the result of [[Nuño González I de Lara]] having been defeated by infante John in a battle that took place in the area around Zamorano de Peleas. After receiving the notification, the brothers left the king and gathered a group of soldiers to try and liberate their father. Nuño González I was liberated by the infante John however upon promising him help in his fight against [[Diego López V de Haro]] to recover the [[Lord of Biscay|Lordship of Biscay]] for his wife, [[María II Díaz de Haro]], who had previously been the rightful title holder. Further, Nuño González I proposed that [[Denis of Portugal]] should join them in their fight.<ref>For more details on this fight for control of Biscay, see the article on [[Diego López V de Haro]]</ref>
In 1294, Sancho IV sent Juan Núñez I to [[Andalucía]] to defend the frontier against the attacks of [[Muhammad II of Granada]], who had at the time allied himself with the [[List of rulers of Morocco|Sultan of Morocco]], [[Yusuf II, Almohad Caliph|Yusuf II]]. Nuño González accompanied his father during the expedition. His father died in the city of [[Córdoba, Andalusia|Córdoba]]. Afterwards, Nuño González returned to [[Crown of Castile|Castile]] together with the entourage that accompanied his fathers cadaver and assisted in sepulchering him in the [[Convento de San Pablo de Burgos]] of the [[Dominican Order]].
[[Image:María de Molina presenta a su hijo a las Cortes de Valladolid 1863 Antonio Gisbert Pérez.JPG|450px|thumb|[[María de Molina her son, Fernando IV to the Cortes de Valladolid of 1295]]. Painted by [[Antonio Gisbert Pérez]]. 1863. [[Congress of Deputies (Spain)|Congreso de los Diputados]].]]
In April 1295, King [[Sancho IV of Castile]] ''el Bravo'', died in the city of [[Toledo, Spain|Toledo]]. He was accompanied during this time by various contemporary magnates including his wife the queen, [[María de Molina]], the Infante [[Henry of Castile the Senator|Henry of Castile]], and by Nuño González himself who had after the death of his father, become a very powerful landed noble.
After the death of Sancho IV, the tutorship of [[Ferdinand IV of Castile]] who was a young child at the time, passed to the hands of the infante Henry who was the only living child of the [[Ferdinand III of Castile]] ''the Saint''. Nevertheless, custody and care of the child was usurped by his mother, Maria de Molina who sought the backing of [[Juan Núñez II de Lara]] and Nuño González to aid [[John of Castile, Lord of Valencia de Campos|John of Castile]] in his efforts against both the influence of the infante Henry, and the ongoing fight for control over Biscay against [[Diego López V de Haro]]. The latter two would form an alliance against the Laras, John of Castile, Maria de Molina, and later Ferdinand IV himself.<ref>{{harv|Salazar y Castro|1697|pp=186–187}}</ref>
In 1296, Nuño González's brother, Juan Núñez II, the infante John, [[Alfonso de la Cerda]] and the kings of Aragon and [[Portugal]] together attacked the Kingdom of Castile. Alfonso de la Cerda, the grandson of [[Alfonso X of Castile]] was named [[King of Castile]] in the area of [[Sahagún, Spain|Sahagún]] and the infante John was crowned [[King of Leon]], [[Galicia (Spain)|Galicia]] and [[Seville]] at [[León, Spain|León]]. Nevertheless, Nuño González remained loyal to King Ferdinand II throughout along with the infante Henry and Diego López V de Haro.
== Death ==
Nuño González II de Lara died in 1296 in the city of [[Valladolid]] when he attempted a combat, by order of the Queen [[María de Molina]], against certain enemies of Fernando IV.<ref>{{harv|Salazar y Castro|1697|p=187}}</ref>
== Marriage ==
Nuño González de Lara married around the year 1295 with [[Constanza de Portugal y Manuel]], daughter of the infante [[Afonso of Portugal, Lord of Portalegre|Alfonso de Portugal]], granddaughter of [[Afonso III of Portugal]], and [[Violante Manuel]], daughter of the infante [[Manuel of Castile]] and granddaughter of [[Ferdinand III of Castile]].
His wife was the lady of Alegrete, [[Vide (Seia)|Vide]], and [[Sintra]] and the couple never had any descendants.
== References ==
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=== Bibliography ===
* {{cite journal|last = Estepa Díez|first= Carlos|year = 2006|title= Doña Juana Núñez y el señorío de los Lara|journal= E-Spania|issue= 1|publisher = Revue interdisciplinaire d’études hispaniques médiévales,SEMH-Sorbonne|location= Paris|doi= 10.4000/e-spania.315|url = http://e-spania.revues.org/index315.html|doi-access= free|hdl= 10261/15148|hdl-access= free}}
* {{cite book|last = Loaysa|first = Jofré de|author2=García Martínez, Antonio|publisher= Academia Alfonso X el Sabio, Colección Biblioteca Murciana de bolsillo Nº 27|title = Crónicas de los Reyes de Castilla Fernando III, Alfonso X, Sancho IV y Fernando IV (1248-1305)|edition = 2nd| year = 1982| location = Murcia|isbn = 84-00-05017-7}}
* {{cite book|last = Salazar y Acha|first = Jaime de| publisher = Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales | title = La casa del Rey de Castilla y León en la Edad| year = 2000| location = Madrid | isbn = 84-259-1128-1 }}
* {{cite book|last = Salazar y Castro|first = Luis de| authorlink= Luis de Salazar y Castro|publisher = Mateo de Llanos y Guzman|volume = 3|title = Historia genealógica de la Casa de Lara| url = http://www.memoriadigitalvasca.es/handle/10357/302|year = 1697| location = Madrid}}
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