Jorge Manrique

Jorge Manrique (c. 1440–1479) was a Castilian nobleman and poet of the Manrique de Lara family and nephew of the poet Gómez Manrique. He fought for Isabella and Ferdinand against Juana la Beltraneja in the Castilian War of Succession.

After his father Rodrigo, Grand Master of the Order of Santiago, died in 1476, Jorge composed the Coplas por la muerte de su padre, an elegy on death as the equaliser of worldly glory and one of the classics of Spanish poetry. In April 1479 he was mortally wounded storming Garcimuñoz Castle, held by the Marquis of Villena.