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Juan de Padilla, lithograph
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Juan de Padilla

Spanish military leader
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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...

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