- wrote two books
- Arboleda de los enfermos (Grove of the Infirm)
- contains theme of the spiritual benefits of illness
- Admiracion Operum Dey (Wonder of the Works of God)
- written because some men doubted that a woman could have written the book
- a deaf nun who spent most of her time in Burgos
- from a converso family
- grandfather: Rabbi Sel omoha-Levi (1350-14350\
- converted with his family on July 21, 1390
- took the name Pablo de Santa Maria
- friends with Pedro de Luna (later Benedict XIII)
- studied in Paris and Avignon
- named Bishop of Cartagena in 1402 and of Burgos in 1412
- royal chancellor of Castille and childhood tutor of Juan II
- father: Pedro de Cartagena (138701478)
- knight in court of Juan II
- a regidor (alderman) in Burgos
- councilor to Enrique IV and Fernando and Isabel
- granted primogeniture in 1440
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