Carlos de Gurrea

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Carlos de Gurrea, Johann Friedrich Leonart, 1675/77, Rijksmuseum

Carlos de Aragón de Gurrea y de Borja, 9th Duque de Villahermosa (originally Carlos de Borja de Aragón de Gurrea y Alagón , born August 18, 1634 Pedrola , † April 14, 1692 Saragossa ) was a Spanish nobleman , viceroy and governor .

biography

He was the son and heir of Fernando Manuel de Aragon de Gurrea y de Borja (* 1613), 8th Duque de Villahermosa, and Juana Luisa de Aragón y Alagón, 3rd Condesa de Luna

He was governor of the Habsburg Netherlands from 1675 to 1677, with Spanish authority over the region being purely nominal. France and the Netherlands were able to fight the Battle of Cassel (1677) here without being stopped by the Spaniards.

Towards the end of his tenure he received reinforcements from the Spanish governor of the Duchy of Milan , Claude Lamoral, 3rd Prince de Ligne , the cavalry unit of the Tercio de Valladares under the command of Field Marshal Isidoro de la Cueva y Benavides . Shortly afterwards he was replaced by Alessandro Farnese , who was then governor from 1678 to 1678.

Under his rule, the Brussels Military Academy (Royal and Military Academy of the Dutch Army) was reinforced by Sebastián Fernández de Medrano, who had Flemish engineers among his students who were as efficient as Prospero Jorge de Verboom.

In 1678 Carlos de Gurrea Aragon y Borja was accepted into the Order of the Golden Fleece (Spanish Branch, No. 505). He was viceroy of Catalonia from 1688 to 1690 and died two years later.

Carlos de Gurrea was married to Maria Enriquez de Guzmán y Cordoba († 1695) since 1656. The couple remained childless. A legal dispute broke out between the Aragonese noble families about his inheritance (title and property), which was only settled 58 years later. Among the pretenders was Josefa Francisca Luisa Antonia Cristófora Felipa de Gurrea y Aragón de Castro Pinós y Ximénez de Cerdán (1663–1699), a distant relative and descendant of the 2nd Duke of Villahermosa, whose grandson was finally recognized as the 10th Duke.

literature

  • Joseph Lefèvre, Villa Hermosa (Carlos de Aragon y Borgia, comte de Luna, Sastago etc., duc de) , in: Biographie nationale de Belgique , Volume 32, Brussels, 1964, Column 720-724 ( online )
  • Henry Kamen, La Guerra de Sucesión en España. 1700-1715 , Barcelona, ​​1974.
  • Andújar Castillo, Consejo y Consejeros de Guerra en el siglo XVIII , Granada, 1996. pp. 197-198.

Remarks

  1. In other sources Gaspar Tellez Girón , 5th Duque de Osuna is mentioned, but since 1674 he was no longer in office in Milan


predecessor Office successor
Juan Domingo de Zuñiga y Fonseca Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands
1675–1677
Alessandro Farnese
Juan Tomás Enríquez de Cabrera, Count of Melga Viceroy of Catalonia
1688–1690
Juan Alonso Pérez de Guzmán, Duke of Medina-Sidonia