Alonso de Granada Venegas Rengifo, military, noble and Spanish patron of the second third of the sixteenth century, of a prominent family of Moorish origin, the Granada Venegas.
He was at the service of Philip II of Spain; in 1555 he was appointed by Real Cédula, mayor of the Generalife, to replace his recently deceased father, Pedro de Venegas Hurtado de Mendoza, third Lord of Campotéjar and Jayena, who had him from his first marriage with María Vázquez Rengifo; He participated in quelling the Moorish rebellion of the Alpujarras in 1568. He married twice, the first with María Manrique de Mendoza, of whom he had four children, and the second with María Ochoa de Castro, of whom he had four others. A fan of letters, he had a lively gathering in his house in Granada attended by the most important genres of the Antequera-Granada school, such as the poets Luis Barahona de Soto, Hernando de Acuña, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, Pedro de Padilla and Gregorio Silvestre, in addition to Gaspar de Baeza, Juan Latino and the jurist and dramatist Gonzalo Mateo de Berrío.
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