Ruy López de Segura Ruy López de Segura Rodrigo (Ruy) López de Segura (c. 1530 – c. 1580) was a Spanish priest and later bishop in Segura whose 1561 book "Libro de la invención liberal y arte del juego del Axedrez" was one of the first definitive books about modern chess in Europe, preceded only by Pedro Damiano's 1512 book, Luis Ramírez de Lucena's 1497 book (the oldest surviving printed book on chess), and the Göttingen manuscript (authorship and exact date of the manuscript are unknown). He was born in Zafra near Badajoz, and he studied and lived in Salamanca. In 1560 he won
Ruy López de Dávalos no issue. 1.5 Giovanni de Guevara, Juan de Guevara, Secreto of Malta island and Gozo island. In 1460, married Paola Inguanez, Paula Iñiguez????, de los barones malteses de Djar il-Biniet, dei Baroni di Djar il-Bniet., with issue. Guara, Daguara, etc. are Italian approaches in the manuscripts to try to spell the Basque-Spanish name Guevara. Ruy López de Dávalos Ruy López de Dávalos, a.k.a. Rui López Dávalos, (Úbeda, Jaén Province, Spain, 1357 - in exile, Valencia, Spain, 1428), Count of Ribadeo since it was sold by the first count, the Frenchman Pierre de Villaines, who received it from Henry II of