Baltasar de Zuñiga

Baltasar de Zúñiga (* 1561 - † October 7, 1622 in Real Sitio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial ) was a Spanish diplomat .

Life

Baltasar de Zuñiga was the son of the fourth Conde de Monterrey, Jerónimo de Acevedo y Zuñiga and brother of the fifth Conde de Monterey Gaspar de Zuñiga Acevedo y Velasco, Viceroy of New Spain and the Viceroy of Peru . He was a brother-in-law of Enrique de Guzmán, the second Conde de Olivares was an ambassador to the Holy See when Sixtus V sat on it. In 1588, Baltasar de Zúñiga took part in the voyage of the until then invincible Spanish Armada against England as a seafarer and soldier . On his return he brought a letter from Alonso Pérez de Guzmán of August 21, 1588 to Philip II in which it was declared that the Armada had perished.

He was then sent to Rome to learn diplomacy from his brother-in-law Olivares.

From 1599 to 1603 he was the Spanish ambassador to Albrecht VII of Habsburg and Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain in the Spanish Netherlands in Brussels , where he also met Justus Lipsius .

From 1603 to 1606 he was ambassador to Henry IV in Paris .

From 1608 to 1617 he was ambassador to Ferdinand II in Prague , Holy Roman Empire . The Conde de Uceda appointed him to Madrid to the post of Council of State, which he occupied on July 1, 1617. He left Prague before the Estates revolt in Bohemia (1618) .

Philip III appointed him Comendador Mayor de León in Santiagoorden and on April 22, 1619 tutor of the heir to the throne. In recognition of this achievement, Philip IV appointed him chairman of his council of state.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Julio Cesar Stella, La Columbeida p. Xxiv (24)

predecessor	Office	successor
	Spanish envoy to Burgundy 1599–1603	Nov 7, 1985: Fernando Olivié González-Pumariega
Lorenzo IV. Suárez de Figueroa y Córdoba	Spanish envoy to France 1603–1606	Antonio de Tovar y Paz
Guillén de San Clemente	Spanish envoy to the Holy Roman Empire 1608–1617	Íñigo Vélez de Guevara, Conde de Oñate