TREASURES OF AL ANDALUS, OLD MASTERS, FINE ART AND ANTIQUES
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Born in Mechelen (Netherlands) and was the only surviving son of the 1st Duke, as his brother Pedro, born in Zafra in 1565, died at three months of age. When his father died, he was only twelve years old and had not yet been adequately instructed in a courtly career, something that was taken care of by his mother, Jane Dormer, who also instilled in him her deep Catholicism, and his uncle the Bishop of Follow. He garnered a reputation for being gallant and quarrelsome, to the point that he was arrested twice on the orders of the King. He served Felipe II and Felipe III as extraordinary ambassador in Rome (1591-1592) in the time of Pope Clement VIII from whom he obtained relics and indulgences, extraordinary ambassador in France (1593-1595), viceroy and captain general of Catalonia (1596-1602). ), Viceroy of Sicily (1603-1607). He was a patron of poets and humanists, especially the poet Enrique Cook and the humanist Pedro de Valencia. Coat of arms of the 2nd Duke of Feria according to the “Terno de las Águilas” He first married (1577) Isabel de Cárdenas, daughter of the Marquises of Elche, who died shortly after marrying. Secondly, he married (1581) Beatriz Álvarez de Toledo, daughter of the Duke of Alba and thirdly (1586) with Isabel de Mendoza, daughter of the Duke of Infantado, who gave him the heir (1587) and made him definitively establish the head, which allowed him to dedicate himself henceforth to his important political tasks, but without reaching the height and brilliance that his father achieved. He died in 1607, after 17 years of widowhood, at the residence of the Viceroy of Naples. He is buried in the funerary or ducal chapel of the monastery of Santa María del Valle de Zafra, chapel that he himself ordered to be built in the first part of the 17th century. Reference bibliography: Salazar and Acha, Jaime de (2012). The Greats of Spain (15th-16th centuries). Hidalguía Editions. p. 154. ISBN 978-84 939313-9-1.
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