Diego de Salinas
Diego de Salinas | |
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Birth name | Diego Esteban Gómez de Salinas y Rodríguez de Villarroel |
Born | Madrid, Spain | 3 August 1649
Died | 27 November 1720 Madrid, Spain | (aged 71)
Allegiance | Spain |
Commands held | Last Spanish Governor of Gibraltar |
Battles/wars | Capture of Gibraltar |
Don Diego Esteban Gómez de Salinas y Rodríguez de Villarroel (Madrid, 3 August 1649 – 27 November 1720) was the last Spanish Governor of Gibraltar.[1] He held the post when The Rock was captured by an Anglo-Dutch fleet in August 1704.[2]
Biography
Salinas y Rodríguez was the son of Pedro Gómez Salinas and Agustina Rodríguez de Villarroel,
In 1685, Salinas y Rodríguez served as the field marshal of the Spanish infantry in Pamplona, and he requested admission into the Order of Santiago. This request was accepted after a thorough investigation of his ancestry. In Pamplona, he participated in battles of the Nine Years' War against the French in the hills of Alduide, where he managed to expel the invaders.[1]
In June 1697, now with the rank of
The Capture of Gibraltar
Salinas y Rodríguez was appointed
The capture of the city was apparently facilitated by the lack of a garrison capable of dealing with the Grand Alliance forces, and not for lack of ammunition and artillery pieces in good condition.[1][2]
After Gibraltar
Some of his contemporaries, however, were critical of the Governor, recalling the episode of the capitulation of Barcelona in 1697. Nevertheless, Philip V seemed not to have taken such opinions into account as Salinas y Rodríguez was appointed Governor of Villaescusa de Haro, in Cuenca, in 1706 where he remained in a kind of voluntary exile until close to his death, when he returned to Madrid. He died in his hometown on 27 November 1720, leaving all his possessions to his sister, Francisca.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h José María Lázaro Bruña. "Brevísima Biografía de Don Diego Gómez de Salinas" (PDF) (in Spanish). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-02-01. Retrieved 2012-09-03.
- ^ ISBN 9781846030161. Retrieved 2012-09-03.
- ISBN 9780521075244.
- ^ Ignacio López de Ayala (1845). The history of Gibraltar: from the earliest period of its occupation by the Saracens. William Pickering. p. 135. Retrieved 2012-09-03.
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