Sancho d'Avila

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Sancho d'Avila y Daza (born September 21, 1523 in Ávila , † March 1583 in Lisbon ) was a Spanish general in the Eighty Years War .

Sancho d'Avila

He was the son of Antonio Blázquez d'Avila and Ana Daza. In his youth he traveled to Rome to study theology . However, he gave up and devoted his later life to the military.

At first, d'Avila served as captain of the bodyguard of Fernando Álvarez , the Duke of Alba . He was responsible for the imprisonment of Prince Lamoral von Egmond .

In the run-up to the Eighty Years' War, d'Avila was defeated and wounded at the Battle of Quesnoy . Other scenes were the battles of Dahlen 1 (1568), Goes (1572), Vlissingen (1573), Borsele , Reimerswaal , Nijmegen and Middelburg (all 1574). In the Battle of the Mooker Heide near Mook (1574), d'Avila defeated Ludwig and Heinrich von Nassau-Dillenburg, the brothers of William I of Orange . In 1576, under his command, the city of Antwerp was sacked and burned to the ground.

D'Avila died during an attack in Lisbon in March 1583 . Due to the uncertain sources, there are two variants of his cause of death. One variant says that he died of gangrene , the other that he was thrown from a horse. His remains were originally supposed to be kept in Lisbon at the San Francisco Convent. They were later given to the chapel of the Church of San Juan Bautista in his native Avila.

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