Alvaro Obertos de Valeto
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Alvaro Obertos de Valeto (Jerez de la Frontera
Jerez de la Frontera
Jerez de la Frontera is a municipality in the province of Cádiz in the autonomous community of Andalusia, in southwestern Spain, situated midway between the sea and the mountains. , the city, the largest in the province, had 208,896 inhabitants; it is the fifth largest in Andalusia...

 1427 - Jerez de la Frontera March 12, 1482). Noble knight, a jury of Jerez and pious founder gave the land for the construction of the Charterhouse of Jerez de la Frontera
Charterhouse of Jerez de la Frontera
The Charterhouse of Jerez de la Frontera or Charterhouse of Santa María de la Defensión is a monastery in Jerez de la Frontera, Cádiz, Spain. Its architecture is of a Late Gothic style, corresponding to the start of construction in the 15th century, with Baroque aspects dating from the 17th...

, whose first stone was laid on December 17, 1478, worked in his work as an operator and it is more his tomb.

Biography

Genoese family of Fíeseos who participated in the capture of Seville and Jerez in the service of Kingdom of Castile
Kingdom of Castile
Kingdom of Castile was one of the medieval kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula. It emerged as a political autonomous entity in the 9th century. It was called County of Castile and was held in vassalage from the Kingdom of León. Its name comes from the host of castles constructed in the region...

Fernando III and Alfonso X. His parents were Francisco de Morla and Francisca Martinez Obertos de Valeto, the daughter of Miguel Vargas Obertos de Valeto and Juana and Martinez Trujillo.
He met the Carthusian prior Hernando de Torres, who gave all his possessions to carry out the erection of a monastery in the municipality of Jerez. He put his property by deed executed before the notary in Seville Alonso Ruiz de Porras, on May 3 the same year of 1463.

With the permission of Cardinal Pedro Mendoza, archbishop of Seville, and the mayor of Jerez don Rodrigo Ponce de Leon laid the foundation stone on December 17, 1478.

The monastery was incorporated into the Order of the General Chapter of Grenoble, held in 1484 and named prior to Don Alonso de Abrego, who was Cazalla.

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