Juan de Mancicidor (died before 30 May 1618) was secretary of state and war to the
Archduke Albert from 1596 to his death in 1618.
Mancicidor served in Madrid under
Philip II Philip II may refer to:
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's secretary of state,
Juan de Idiáquez. When Archduke Albert was sent to the Low Countries as Governor General in 1596, Mancicidor accompanied him as his secretary of state and war. As Secretary of State he was responsible for the confidential correspondence between the Archduke and King
Philip III of Spain
Philip III ( es, Felipe III; 14 April 1578 – 31 March 1621) was King of Spain. As Philip II, he was also King of Portugal, Naples, Sicily and Sardinia and Duke of Milan from 1598 until his death in 1621.
A member of the House of Habsburg, Phi ...
, royal ministers, Spanish ambassadors at their various postings, the governor of Milan, the Viceroy of Naples, and other dignitaries. As Secretary of War, he countersigned all the Archduke's military orders. He was part of the delegation that negotiated the
Twelve Years' Truce
The Twelve Years' Truce was a ceasefire during the Eighty Years' War between Spain and the Dutch Republic, agreed in Antwerp on 9 April 1609 and ended on 9 April 1621. While European powers like France began treating the Republic as a sovereign n ...
of 1609–1621.
[J. Lefèvre, "Don Juan de Mancicidor, secrétaire d'État et de Guerre de l'archiduc Albert, 1596–1618", '' Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire'', 4 (1925), pp. 697–714.]
Mancicidor was married twice. His first wife was Eugénie de Vogeleer and his second was Marie de Mol. Both were Flemish. Three daughters of the first marriage were christened in Brussels in 1598, 1599, and 1602, and two of the second marriage in 1616 and 1618. He is known to have had two sons.
He died before 30 May 1618, when the christening of his youngest child took place, but the exact date is unknown.
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16th-century births
1618 deaths
Spanish people of the Eighty Years' War