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| Born | c. 1550 |
| Died | 15 March 1613 Íñigo Fernández de Velasco, 4th Duke of Frías |
| Mother | María Ángela de Aragón y Guzmán El Bueno |
Juan Fernández de Velasco, 5th Duke of Frías[1] (c. 1550 – 15 March 1613) was a Spanish nobleman and diplomat.
Biography
Juan Fernández de Velasco was the son of
Íñigo Fernández de Velasco; and of Maria Angela de Aragón y Guzmán El Bueno. He inherited his father's title of Constable of Castile, and was present at the signing of the Treaty of London (1604)
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London in 1604
He was sent to London to sign the recently negotiated peace treaty. The resident Spanish ambassador, the Count of Villamediana, asked King James if Velasco could be lodged at Somerset House, and Anne of Denmark granted his request.[2] The lodging was decorated with royal tapestries, and his bedchamber furnished with a bed of "morado damask" bordered with gold. Velasco arrived in London on 10 August 1604.[3]
He came to Somerset House on a barge on the
Robert Cecil. The queen and her companions wore black masks and their barge was disguised, without royal insignia.[6]
The Constable saw King James on 15/25 August and had an audience with
Whitehall Palace, and he watched Prince Henry dance and exercise with a pike in the garden. He gave the prince a pony.[7] Prince Henry danced for the guests. The Constable gave Prince Henry a Spanish horse with a rich saddle and bridle and an embroidered doublet with a sash. He signed the treaty in the chapel royal at Whitehall on 19 August. Afterwards at a banquet, he gave Anne of Denmark a cup of crystal garnished with gold, shaped like a dragon. From the windows, the party watched greyhounds and mastiffs fight bears. King James gave him a service of vintage gilt plate, and Anne of Denmark gave him a jewelled locket with miniature portraits, supplied by John Spilman for £1000,[8] with a stomacher or necklace (garganto) set with pearls for his wife. He left England from Dover.[9]
Details of embassy are known from letters of the Earl of Northampton, and the Spanish Relación de la Jornada del Condestable de Castilla published in Antwerp 1604.
Governor of Milan
Juan Fernández de Velasco was
Governor of the Duchy of Milan in the period 1592–1600 and 1610–1612. In 1595, he led the Spanish forces in the Battle of Fontaine-Française
against the French, where he let victory slip through his fingers, due to excessive caution.
Works
- Quaderno de varias escrituras en las diferencias de iuridiciones ecclesiastica y real del estado de Milan (in Spanish). Milano: Georg Herolt. 1597.
Descendants
Around 1580, the Duke married
João IV of Portugal
on 1 December 1640. In 1608, after the death of his first wife, Juan Fernández de Velasco married Joana de Córdoba y Aragón, and together they had three children:
By María Girón de Guzmán:
- Íñigo Fernández de Velasco, 9th Count of Haro
- Ana de Velasco y Girón, married Teodósio II, Duke of Braganza being the mother of King John IV of Portugal
By Joana de Córdoba y Aragón:
- Bernardino Fernández de Velasco, 6th Duke of Frías, married Isabel Maria de Guzmán
- Luis de Velasco, 1st Marquis del Fresno, married Catarina de Velasco
- Mariana Fernandez de Velasco, deceased 1650, married António II Alvarez de Toledo, 7th Duke of Alba, 4th Duke of Huéscar, a Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece since 1675, (1615–1690).
Notes
- ^ In full, Spanish: Don Juan Fernández de Velasco y Aragón, quinto duque de Frías, décimo Condestable de Castilla, septimo conde de Haro, tercer marqués de Berlanga, tercer conde de Castilnovo, noveno mayorazgo y señor de la Casa de Velasco, señor de la Casa y Estado de Tovar, Camarero mayor y Copero mayor del Rey, gobernador y capitán general del Estado de Milán, presidente del Consejo de Italia, del Consejo de Estado y de Guerra. embajador de SM en Inglaterra
- ^ Horatio Brown, Calendar State Papers, Venice: 1603-1607, vol. 10 (London, 1900), p. 148 no. 207.
- ^ Horatio Brown, Calendar State Papers, Venice: 1603-1607, vol. 10 (London, 1900), p. 175 no. 261: Henry Ellis, Original Letters, series 2 vol. 3 (London, 1827), p. 209.
- ^ Maurice Lee, Dudley Carleton to John Chamberlain, 1603–1624 (Rutgers UP, 1972), 61.
- ^ Linda Levy Peck, Northampton: Patronage and Policy at Court of James I (London, 1982), 110.
- ^ John Nichols, Progresses of James the First, vol. 4 (London, 1828), p. 1063: Henry Ellis, Original Letters, 2nd series vol. 3, pp. 207-15, citing Relacion de la Jornada de Condestable de Castilla en Londres 1604 (Antwerp, 1604), 22: Calendar State Papers Domestic, 1603–1610, 141, SP 14/9A/f.12r.
- ^ Horatio Brown, Calendar State Papers, Venice: 1603-1607, vol. 10 (London, 1900), p. 178 no. 266.
- ^ Diana Scarisbrick, Jewellery in Britain, 1066-1837 (Norwich: Michael Russell, 1994), 76: Frederick Devon, Issues of the Exchequer (London, 1836), 16–17.
- ^ Ethel C. Williams, Anne of Denmark (London: Longman, 1970), 96–97: Henry Ellis, Original Letters, series 2 vol. 3 (London, 1827), 211–15.
Sources
- Castro Pereira Mouzinho de Albuquerque e Cunha, Fernando de (1995). Instrumentário Genealógico – Linhagens Milenárias (in Portuguese). pp. 329–30.
- Hobbs, Nicolas (2007). "Grandes de España" (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 October 2008.
- Instituto de Salazar y Castro. Elenco de Grandezas y Titulos Nobiliarios Españoles (in Spanish). periodic publication.
- "Genealogia" (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on March 11, 2007. Retrieved 15 October 2008.
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