In this chapel are buried doctors Diego Fernández Laguna who died in 1541 and his son Andrés Fernández de Laguna, doctor of Carlos I of Spain and V of Germany, who died in 1559. Catalina de Velázquez widow of doctor Diego Fernández Laguna who died in 1541 and his son Andrés Fernández Laguna, doctor to Carlos I of Spain and V of Germany, who died in 1559. Catalina de Velázquez, widow of Dr. Diego Fernández de Laguna for her closed will that was granted and opened before the notary public Antón Martín In 1569 she founded a low mass every week in the chapel she founded and left 3,500 maravedís and 2 ducats for the dowry of the chapel - repairs and ornaments - among other income.
The Segovian and physician Andrés Laguna was born in Segovia around 1511. His training took place in the main educational centers of Europe. It is also true that Laguna had the status of a convert and the obstacles imposed by the legislation of the Protomedicato that required the cleansing of blood to obtain a medical degree, could have been factors for his father to send him to study abroad. Paris, Metz, Cologne, the Netherlands, Italy ... were some places where Laguna practiced medicine. Together with the Emperor he carried out the assigned missions. In Rome he was in the service of Cardinal Francisco de Bobadilla y Mendoza and Popes Paul III and Julius III.
The chapel
is dedicated to Our Lady and was acquired by her mother, Catalina de Velázquez.
As you said, he is buried next to his father, a grave sheltered in an
arcosolium that frames the painting made in grisaille of the Crying over the
dead Christ. Following Collar de Cáceres, the painting is inspired by
Marcantonio Raimondi's print, on a composition by Rafael.
On another
wall there is a beautiful altarpiece made by the one known as "Painter of
1563". On the bench of this altarpiece it can be read that the chapel and
the altarpiece were ordered made by Catalina Velázquez and that her husband and
her two children are buried in the chapel, including Andrés Laguna.
