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[Part of a series of posts and pages dedicated to Sancha de Ayala<\/a>]<\/i><\/p>\n

More photos of Sancha de Ayala’s maternal ancestral home, the Ayala stronghold at Quejana (\u00c1lava), near Bilbao. It is fascinating, and fortuitous, that the houses of both Sancha de Ayala’s paternal and maternal families have been preserved since the fourteenth century due to their conversion into monastic establishments. Quejana is now a Dominican convent, and the old family chapel is now dwarfed by the late-Renaissance convent church (where Fern\u00e1n P\u00e9rez de Ayala, Sancha’s first cousin, is buried). But the older palace chapel, built by Sancha’s uncle, the Chancellor Pero L\u00f3pez de Ayala, as a resting place for his parents\u2014Sancha’s grandparents\u2014still houses their tombs and the relics of the Virgen del Cabello<\/i> (our lady of the hair) with an elaborate painted retable commissioned by the Chancellor\u2014on which later.
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\nThe alabaster effigies of Sancha’s maternal grandparents, Fern\u00e1n P\u00e9rez de Ayala and his wife Elvira de Ceballos, now rest in niches in the chapel, whence it looks as if they were apparently transferred at some point from a different base:
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\nFern\u00e1n P\u00e9rez de Ayala (d. 1385)<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nElvira Alvarez de Ceballos (d. 1372)<\/i><\/div>\n

\nThe Chancellor himself lies with his wife at the center of the chapel in a double effigy on its original base:
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\nThis and many other photos are from the fine booklet by Micaela J. Portilla, Quejana: solar de los Ayala<\/i> (Vitoria: Diputaci\u00f3n Foral de Alava, 1988).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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