San Martín side, arch 16
Sancho d'Avila
Wikipedia's own text warns that one is missing from its table: “medallion no. 16 is missing from this section”. From here on, the San Martín numbering runs one position out.
- Sculptor
- not recorded
- Year
- not recorded
- Where it is
- San Martín side, arch 16
Who he was
1523–1583 Spanish general
Don Sancho Dávila y Daza was a Spanish army general. Dávila was born on 21 September 1523, in Ávila. He first served as the commander of the Duke of Alba's bodyguard. It was in this function that Dávila arrested the Count of Egmont. When the Eighty Years' War started, Dávila suffered a defeat in the Battle of Le Quesnoy.
Opening paragraph from the Wikipedia article on Sancho d'Avila, in the revision we consulted, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Birth and death dates come from Wikidata.
Photograph: Basilio · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 2012-08-29 · file page on Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and colour-matched to sit with the rest.
