Cristóbal de Mondragón

Cristóbal de Mondragón y Otalora (* 1514 in Medina del Campo, Valladolid, † January 4, 1596 in Antwerp ) was a military leader during the Eighty Years' War, who commanded among others the Reconquest of Burg Kerpen by the Dutch under Bilius of Utrecht at Epiphany of the Year 1579.

In 1572 he freed the besieged of the Beggars Goes, after which he was appointed by the Duke of Alba to the governor of Zeeland. 1578 to 1579 he was governor of Limburg. On February 21, 1574 he handed over the city of Middelburg in William of Orange.

Two years later he besieged Zierikzee and took it. After the conquest of this city, he could not prevent the Spanish soldiers who have not been paid for years mutinied. Under Alessandro Farnese, he took, in 1579, at the Siege of Maastricht in part. His last campaign was in 1595. He managed to break through, after which the Mondragon cavalry of Philip of Nassau sales and this captured the siege of Groenlo by Prince Maurice of Orange.

He died as governor of Antwerp in the local citadel.