biography
pronunciation:
[padeelya]
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1490–1521)
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| biography:
| Spanish revolutionary leader and popular hero, born in Toledo, C Spain. He was commandant of Saragossa under Charles V, headed an insurrection against the intolerable taxation, and after some success was defeated and beheaded. His wife Maria (d.1531) held Toledo against the royal forces for a time (1521–2), then fled to Portugal. |
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