Francisco Ruiz de Castro y de Sandoval-Rojas (May 1579 - 1637), was a Spanish nobleman and politician the 8th count of

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Biography

Francisco Ruiz de Castro was born in

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. His father,

Fernando Ruiz de Castro Fernando Ruiz de Castro (d. Bayonne, 1377), was a Galician nobleman of the House of Castro and prominent military figure. He was the third Count of Lemos, Trastámara and Sarria. He is often referred to by the appellation "''Toda la lealtad d ...

, was Viceroy of Naples from 1599 to 1601 and Francisco succeeded him in the same year. His elder brother

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, will be later also Viceroy of Naples in 1610–1616. Francisco remained in Naples until April 1603. In 1616 he became Viceroy of Sicily, a position he held until 1622. He played an instrumental role in establishing the Orfanotrofio del Buon Pastore in Palermo; a boy's orphanage which eventually evolved into the Palermo Conservatory of Music. In 1629, he became a

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monk at the monastery of San Benito in Sahagun, with the name of Father Agustín de Castro. He died in 1637, and was interred at Monforte de Lemos, Galicia, his family's burial place.

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Bibliography

*Elorza, Juan C.; Lourdes Vaquero, Belén Castillo, Marta Negro (1990). Junta de Castilla y León. Consejería de Cultura y Bienestar Social (ed.). ''El Panteón Real de las Huelgas de Burgos. Los enterramientos de los reyes de León y de Castilla'', 2ª edición, Editorial Evergráficas S.A., pp. 54. . *Augustinian Father J.M. Cuenca Coloma, ''Sahagún, monasterio y villa (1085-1985)'' Edit. Estudio Agustiniano 1985. Another edition, Valladolid, 1993.

External links

Joseluisluna.com (In Spanish)

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