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Juan de Padilla, lithograph
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Juan de Padilla

Spanish military leader
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1490?, Toledo, Castile
Died:
April 24, 1521, Villalar, Spain
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Juan de Padilla (born 1490?, Toledo, Castile—died April 24, 1521, Villalar, Spain) was an aristocratic Spanish military leader of the Castilian Comunidades (Comuneros) in their unsuccessful revolt (1520–21) against the government of the Habsburg emperor Charles V (King Charles I of Spain). Padilla was a member of an ancient noble family of Toledo. Charles, who came to the Spanish throne in 1516, had inflamed national opinion by appointing to high posts foreigners who carried out arbitrary and exploitative actions. Demands soon arose for the imposition of traditional Castilian constitutional checks on royal power. Padilla had personal grievances against Charles as ...(100 of 318 words)

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