Rodrigo Ronquillo
Rodrigo Ronquillo y Briceño was a Spanish military and noble known for his intervention at the Revolt of the Comuneros, fighting with the royalists. During the revolt in 1520, Rodrigo Ronquillo, chief of royal troops in the area, set his headquarters in Santa María la Real de Nieva, and lost a battle near the town.
He was born in 1471 and died in Madrid on 9 December 1552.
