Pedro Henriquez de Acevedo, Count of Fuentes

Pedro Henriquez de Acevedo y Toledo, Count of ( Count de ) Fuentes ( born September 18, 1525 Zamora, in older sources also born September 18, 1560 in Valladolid, † July 22, 1610 in Milan ) was a Spanish general and statesman.

Life

At a young age Fuentes served as a page at the court of Philip II. , He made his first campaign in 1580 under the Duke of Alba in Portugal, where the Spaniards penetrated the hereditary rights of the Spanish king rapidly to the Portuguese throne. 1582 Fuentes received the command of the Spanish occupation forces.

1591 Fuentes was sent by the King of Spain in the uprising located in the ligand Netherlands. After the death of the local governor Alexander Farnese, he supported its two successors, Peter Ernst, Count of Mansfeld, and Archduke Ernst of Austria. 1595 Fuentes took over the role on an interim governor. The coated action against the Dutch persuaded Philip II, to replace him in the following year by Albert VII of Austria.

From 1600 until his death in 1610 was Fuentes Governor and Captain-General to Milan. In the near Colico he had 1603/1604 the Fort Fuentes ( Forte de Fuentes, destroyed in 1796 by French revolutionary troops ) build to counter the advances of the Three Leagues in Milan area. His policy of strength provoked, however, even here, in particular the Dogenstaat Venice.

In 1599 he obtained an alliance with Duke Charles Emmanuel I of Savoy to dismemberment of France. At the same time he is said to have the French Marshal Biron wrested the (not held ) promises, in a conspiracy against his own king, Henry IV to proceed.

Source problem

  • Birth and date of death ensured in the older literature for confusion. Spanish, French as well as German lexicons (eg Pierer 's Universal -Lexikon, 1857) called the September 18, 1560, place of birth Valladolid. Also the birthplace in 1535, with the birthplace Zamora, is to find (without day and month, Meyers Great conversation Encyclopedia, Volume 7, Leipzig 1907). The modern literature of 20-21. Century, however, refers to the September 18, 1525 (birthplace Zamora).
  • The date of death is Pierer 's Universal Encyclopedia with May 19, 1643 ( Battle of Rocroi ). Pierer 's thus subject to confusion with Paul Bernard, Count of Fontaine, a Spanish General Lorraine origin. Meanwhile French origin name (" Fontaine " = French " source ") was often in " Fuentes " (sp. " source " ) retranslated incorrectly to the middle of the 20th century.

Guillaume II de Croy | Margaret of Austria | Maria of Hungary | Emanuel Philibert of Savoy | Margaret of Parma | Duke of Alba | Luis de Zúñiga y Requesens | Juan de Austria | Alessandro Farnese | Peter Ernst I von Mansfeld | Ernst of Austria | Pedro Henriquez de Acevedo | Albert VII of Habsburg | Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain | Ferdinand of Spain | Francisco de Melo

  • Governor
  • Governor of the Duchy of Milan
  • Person during the Eighty Years' War
  • Spaniard
  • Born in 1525
  • Died in 1610
  • Man
  • Spanish History ( Hapsburg )
  • Military person (Spain )
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