Alfonso Pérez de Vivero, 3rd Count of Fuensaldaña
Alfonso Pérez de Vivero y Menchaca | |
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Count of Fuensaldaña | |
Lucas Vorsterman (I), produced ca. 1640–1661 | |
Born | 1603 Valladolid |
Died | 21 November 1661 Cambrai |
Occupation | commander and statesman |
Alfonso Pérez de Vivero (Valladolid, 1603 – Cambrai, 21 November 1661), Count of Fuensaldaña, was a Spanish soldier, nobleman and officeholder.
In 1632, when in his late twenties, he went to Flanders with a commission as captain of a company in the
Governor of Milan
from 1656 to 1660. In 1660 he retired from public life, withdrawing to Cambrai, where he died.
Sources
- Fernando González de León, The Road to Rocroi: Class, Culture and Command in the Spanish Army of Flanders (History of Warfare 52; Brill, Leiden, 2009)
External links
- Portrait engraved by Cornelius Galle the Younger.