Íñigo Melchor Fernández de Velasco

Íñigo Fernández de Velasco, picture by Murillo

Íñigo Melchor Fernández de Velasco , Marqués del Fresno, (born April 16, 1629 in Madrid , † September 29, 1696 ) was a Spanish military leader and statesman in the service of Charles II of Spain .

He was the first son of Isabel María de Guzmán and Bernardino Fernández de Velasco y Tovar from whom he inherited the titles Duke of Frias, Count of Haro, Marquis de Berlanga and the supreme command of the troops in Castile .

At the Guerra dels Segadors in 1640 he served as a general on the Castile side under the command of Juan José de Austria . During the Restoration War , which separated Portugal from the Spanish Crown, he was Commander-in-Chief of Galicia. From 1668 to 1669 he was governor of the Spanish Netherlands . He was then on the Council of State and War Council of Charles II of Spain.

In 1671 he became chairman of the Consejo de las Órdenes , an institution that administered the military religious associations Santiagoorden , the Order of Calatrava and the Order of Alcántara . The area of ​​the order comprised two cities, about 250 parishes and 100 villages. On February 17, 1674, he signed the Peace of Westminster .

In 1675 he became Consejo Supremo de Flandes . In 1676 he became Mayordomo Mayor (first court master) of Charles II of Spain.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Pascual Madoz , Diccionario geográfico-estadístico-histórico de España y sus posesiones de Ultramar, Tomo 8 , 1847 p. 192
2. ^ John Bruce, Annals of the Honorable East-India Company: from their establishment by the charter of Queen Elizabeth, 1600, to the union of the London and English , p. 23
3. ↑ José Antonio Álvarez Baena , Hijos de Madrid 1790, p. 408

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predecessor	Office	successor
Francisco de Moura Cortereal, Marquis of Castel Rodrigo	Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands 1668–1669	Juan Domingo de Zuñiga y Fonseca
El Conde de Molina	Spanish envoy to England 1671–1674	El Baron de Bergeick