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Alonso de la Cueva, marqués de Bedmar: Quick Facts

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Facts

Born 1572 • Granada • Spain
Died 1655 (aged 83) • Oviedo • Spain
Samaranch, Juan António
Juan Antonio Samaranch, marquis de Samaranch
Spanish businessman and public official
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Baltazar de Zúñiga
Spanish diplomat and statesman
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José Moñino y Redondo, conde de Floridablanca
Spanish statesman
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Salvador de Madariaga y Rojo
Spanish writer and diplomat
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Pedro Pablo Abarca de Bolea, count de Aranda
Spanish statesman
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Ángel de Saavedra, duke de Rivas
Spanish author
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Francisco Serrano y Domínguez, duke de la Torre
regent of Spain
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Saint Hugh of Cluny
French abbot
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Fernando de Valenzuela, marquis de Villa Sierra
Spanish ambassador
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Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, count de Gondomar
Spanish diplomat and ambassador
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Pedro López de Ayala
Spanish poet and chronicler
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Francisco de Paula Martínez de la Rosa
Spanish writer and statesman
Miguel Ricardo de Álava y Esquivel, detail from the Battle of Vitoria monument in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.
Miguel Ricardo de Álava y Esquivel
Spanish soldier and statesman
Cardinal Jiménez de Cisneros
Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros
Spanish cardinal
Oil portrait of Hugo de Groot, also known as Hugo Grotius, by the workshop of Michiel Janszoon van Mierevelt, showing him with a ruffled white collar and dark clothing.
Hugo Grotius
Dutch statesman and scholar
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Juan Guillermo Riperdá, duque de Riperdá
Dutch adventurer
Engraving of Miguel de Cervantes, shown with a mustache and beard, wearing a ruffled collar and cloak, based on works by Gregorio Ferro and Fernando Selma.
Miguel de Cervantes
Spanish writer
Painting by Jakob Seisenegger showing Emperor Charles V in ornate Renaissance attire standing beside a large hunting dog, with a green curtain in the background.
Charles V
Holy Roman emperor
Francisco Franco in military uniform and cap, looking slightly to the side in an undated black and white portrait.
Francisco Franco
ruler of Spain
Christopher Columbus
Isabella I
queen of Spain

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