Fernando Ruiz de Castro Andrade y Portugal (14 December 1548 - 20 September 1601) was a Galician (Spanish) nobleman who was

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from 1599 to 1601. He was the 6th Count of Lemos, an old title from Galicia, centered in the lands around the town of

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. He was also 3rd Marquis of Sarria and a

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. He was born at Lerma. Philosopher

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was incarcerated during his tenure in Naples (1599). He also ordered the construction of

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, designed by

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. Fernando Ruiz de Castro died in

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two years later. His second son Francisco Ruiz de Castro succeeded him as viceroy of Naples.

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