Martín Alonso de Córdoba
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Martín Alonso de Córdoba (died 5 July 1476) was a Spanish Augustinian friar, professor of theology, preacher and writer. In 1468–1469, he was a tutor to the future queen Isabella I of Castile. Thirteen works are attributed to him.
Martín was born around 1400 in Córdoba and entered the local Augustinian convent. With the permission of the prior general of the order, Agostino Favaroni, he went to the convent in Salamanca to read the Sentences in 1420. In 1424, Favaroni permitted him to study at the University of Zaragoza while continuing to lecture at Salamanca. Gregory of Rimini granted him his Bachelor of Theology degree in 1431 while permitting him to take his Master of Theology at the University of Toulouse, where he graduated in 1436 and subsequently taught.[1]
From 1443 to 1451, Martín was the vicar general of the Observants at Salamanca, seeing through the reform of the convent along Observant lines in 1448. He left the school at Salamanca intact, but Pope Nicholas V suppressed it in 1451 as being incompatible with the religious life. Martín then joined the faculty of theology and philosophy at the University of Salamanca, which awarded him a doctorate. In 1461, the prior general, Guglielmo Becchi, transferred him to Toulouse to teach theology.[1]
Martín regularly preached at the court of King Henry IV of Castile.[2] In 1462, he was nominated for the vacant diocese of Badajoz, but he declined. He presided over the provincial chapters of Castile in 1465, 1468, 1471 and 1473. Queen Isabella entrusted to him the education of her son, Alfonso, Prince of Asturias, and, after his death in 1468, that of her daughter, the future queen Isabella I.[1]
In 1470, the prior general Giacomo Oliva appointed Martín as vicar general of the convent of Valladolid, a post in which he continued until his death on 5 July 1476. He was buried in Valladolid.[1]
