Francisco de Moura

Don Francisco de Moura, 3rd Marquês de Castelo Rodrigo, François Duchatel (1616–1694), Museu Quinta das Cruzes, Funchal

Francisco de Moura Corterreal as diplomat at the Peace of Westphalia, Anselm van Hulle, Bibliothek van het Vredespaleis, The Hague

Francisco de Moura Corterreal (* 1610 , † November 26, 1675 in Madrid ) was a Portuguese diplomat and politician who administered three of his sub- kingdoms for the Spanish monarchy. He was the 3rd Marquês de Castelo Rodrigo (in Portugal) and 1st Duca di Nocera (in Italy).

Life

Francisco de Moura was the son of the Portuguese nobleman Manuel de Moura Corte-Real (around 1590–1651), 2nd Marquês de Castelo Rodrigo, 1644–1647 governor of the Habsburg Netherlands , and Leonor de Melo. As a member of the Corterreal family, he was a member of the chamber of King Philip III. of Portugal and later the Council of State.

At the time of his father's governorship, he was a member of the Spanish delegation that negotiated the Peace of Westphalia . In this delegation he was important enough that Anselm van Hulle portrayed him on behalf of the Dutch governor Friedrich Heinrich von Nassau, Prince of Orange . In 1651 he was the Spanish ambassador in Vienna .

In 1649 he demanded compensation of 150,000 ducats from the Spanish court for losses he had suffered as a result of an uprising in the Habsburg Netherlands. He was offered the Neapolitan Duchy of Nocera , the value of which the royal treasury put at 223,000 ducats - in exchange for the difference of 73,000 ducats. There was a tug-of-war for the amount beyond the plague of 1656, which hit Nocera badly and reduced the value of the fief. A new estimate now resulted in 163,000 ducats - and a difference of 13,000 ducats, which Francisco de Moura paid. He was then appointed Duke of Nocera on August 10, 1656. He never entered the city, but had a governor administer it.

From 1657 to 1661 he was Viceroy of Sardinia , from 1663 to 1664 Viceroy of Catalonia and from 1664 to 1668 governor of the Habsburg Netherlands.

He set out for the Spanish Netherlands to rebuild the Spanish army, which was severely weakened after the Peace of the Pyrenees (November 7, 1659), but due to the lack of financial aid and soldiers from the Iberian Peninsula, he had almost no way of achieving his goal . He reinforced his army with imperial troops, which had been released after the end of the Turkish War in 1663/1664 , but this was not enough to protect the provinces from a feared French invasion. Despite many inquiries to the court, he received no soldiers against the background of the Spanish attempts to retake Portugal (1663–1665). The Marquês, who robbed Spanish and Italian soldiers, had to fall back on German and Walloon troops, in 1666 he hired soldiers from the Bishop of Münster Christoph Bernhard von Galen . When the French invaded the Netherlands in the War of Devolution (1667/68), the Spaniards had little to oppose them, so that the French even spoke before a “military walk”.

From 1669 he held the post of Caballerizo mayor in the Spanish government .

marriage and family

Francisco de Moura married in Rome in 1639 Anna Maria de Moncada de Aragón y de la Cerda (* 1616), daughter of Antonio d'Aragona Moncada (1587-1631), 4th Principe di Paternó, grandee of Spain , and Juana de la Cerda y la Cueva (1591–1667), from whom he had two daughters:

• Leonor de Moura (* 1642, † January 1, 1707), 2nd Duchessa di Nocera; ∞ (1) Anielo de Guzmán († 1677), 1676 Viceroy of Sicily ; ∞ (2) 1679 Carlos Homodei y Lasso de la Vega, 2nd Marqués de Almonacid de los Oteros
• Juana de Moura , 3rd Duchessa di Nocera, 6th Marchesa de Castelo-Rodrigo; ∞ (1) Gilberto Pio di Savoia, 2nd Principe di San Gregorio; ∞ (2) Luigi Contarini, Venetian patrician

Since he had no male heir when he died on November 26, 1675 in Madrid, the Duchy of Nocera went to his daughter Leonor de Moura . Francisco de Moura was buried in the Cathedral of San Prisco at the expense of his subjects , although he had never been seen in Nocera.

literature

• Anselm van Hulle ea: Celeberrimi ad pacificandum christiani nominis orbem: legati Monasterium et Osmabrugas, ex omni pene gentium nationumque genere missi; ad vivum Anselmi van Hulle penicillo expressi, eiusque cura et aere, per insigniores huius aevi sculptores caelo repraesentati. Antwerp, Daniel Middeler, 1648, (edited by David Mortier, Amsterdam)
• Dom António Caetano de Sousa: História Genealógica da Casa Real Portuguesa. VI (2nd edition), Coimbra, Portugal: Atlântida-Livraria Editora, Lda., 1946
• Fernando de Castro Pereira Mouzinho de Albuquerque e Cunha: Instrumentário Genealógico - Linhagens Milenárias. 1995, pp. 329-30.
• Manuel José da Costa Felgueiras Gaio: Nobiliário das Famílias de Portugal. VII. Portugal: Beltroens.
• Instituto de Salazar y Castro: Elenco de Grandezas y Titulos Nobiliarios Españoles.
• Antonio José Rodríguez Hernández: España, Flandes y la Guerra de Devolución (1667–1668). Guerra, reclutamiento y movilización para el mantenimiento de los Países Bajos españoles. Ministerio de Defensa, 2007, pp. 95-99, ISBN 978-84-9781-336-5 .

Remarks

predecessor	Office	successor
Barnardo Matías de Cervelló (interim)	Viceroy of Sardinia 1657–1661	Pedro Vico, Archbishop of Callér (interim)
Francisco de Orozco, Marquis de Mortara	Viceroy of Catalonia 1663–1664	Vincenzo Gonzaga
Luis de Benavides Carillo , Marquis de Fromiata	Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands 1664–1668	Íñigo Melchor Fernández de Velasco , Duke of Feria
-	Duke of Nocera 1656–1675	Leonor de Moura