Francisco de Melo

Don Francisco de Melo ( * 1597 in Estremoz, † 1651), Portuguese Marqués de Tor de Laguna, Conde de Assumar was 1641-1644 as interim governor of the Habsburg Netherlands.

1632 to 1636 he was Ambassador of Spain in Genoa. 1638 he was appointed Viceroy of Sicily, two years later as ambassador to Vienna. Above all, he remains because of its historical defeat at the Battle of Rocroi in 1643 in memory that is now regarded as the beginning of the decline of the Spanish empire. His victory at the Battle of Honnecourt the year before, however, fell into oblivion. 1647 to 1649 he was finally Viceroy of Aragón.

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  • Viceroy ( Sicily)
  • Person in the Thirty Years' War
  • Spanish Ambassador
  • Portuguese
  • Born in 1597
  • Died in 1651
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