Enríquez family

…arms of members of the Enríquez family, hereditary admirals of Castile, and others show the arms of Maria of Castile, queen of Aragon. Other Admiral carpets display merely the diapered ground without shields. The borders are complex, the outermost stripe usually a deformation of Kūfic script interspersed with tiny stylized…

There the Enríquez, the Mendoza, and the Guzmán families and others owned vast estates, sometimes covering almost half a province. They had grown rich as a result of the boom in wool exports to Flanders during the 15th-century, when there were more than 2.5 million sheep in…