Egas, Enrique de (c. 1445–c. 1534)

Spanish architect. He was cathedral architect at Toledo about 1498 before moving to Granada, where he designed the chapel royal (1506) and the cathedral (1521), although the latter was remodelled and completed by Diego de Siloe. His works are mainly in the plateresque style, with some sign of knowledge of Italian Renaissance trends.

He was probably born at Toledo, where his father Egas (died 1495) and uncle Hanequin (died c. 1475) were associated with work on the cathedral. Although Enrique and his brother Anton adopted the name of their father as their family name, it seems likely that the family was an offshoot of a well-known Brussels family of masons called Coeman.

He also designed buildings in Valladolid and Santiago de Compostela, his cruciform hospital plan for the latter in 1501 being copied for the Santa Cruz hospital in Toledo (1504) and then in Granada (1511).